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[From ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,” 
vol. xxxiv., 1910.] 
THE BRACHIOPODS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
By Jos. C. Verco, M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), ete. 
[Read April 5, 1910.] 
Puares XXVIT. anp XXVIII. 
In November, 1906, Professor F. Blochmann, of the 
Zoological Institute of the- University of Tubingen, wrote 
to Professor Stirling, Director of the Adelaide Museum, re- 
questing the loan of its Brachiopod material, so as to permit 
of his investigating the South Australian forms. He was 
working up the Brachiopods of the Valdivia and Gauss 
Expedition, and had been led into some important questions 
concerning the geographical distribution of the members of 
this group. As the Museum material was meagre, Professor 
Stirling passed the letter on to me, and I sent Professor 
Blochmann all our well-known forms, and as many other 
species as I had then separated, from the shells dredged 
during several years. 
In the early part of this year he forwarded a communi- 
cation to be used at my discretion, either as a paper by 
Professor Blochmann, presented by me, to be published in 
the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, or 
as material for *me to use in compiling a paper of my own. 
To combine the two ideas seemed the proper course, and 
with the acquiescence of the Council I present a paper on 
the Brachiopods of South Australia, which will deal with all 
the species hitherto found in our waters, and will incor- 
porate Professor Blochmann’s descriptions of his three new 
species, translated from his manuscript, and attributed, as 
they should be, to him as their author. We are indebted 
to him for the photographs of his three species. My remain- 
ing material has supplied two other new species, which I have 
described and figured. 
The late Professor Tate, in a Revision of the Recent 
Lamellibranch and Palliobranch Mollusca of South Aus- 
tralia, Trans. Roy. Soc. of 8. Austr., vol. ix., 1886, p. 76 to 
p- 111, enumerated five Brachiopods, namely, Waldheimia 
flavescens, Wamarck, now called Magellania flavescens; 
Terebratella cancellata, Koch, now Terebratulina cancellata; 
Megerlia willemesi, Davidson, which was a misidentifica- 
tion, and is the Magasella vercoi, Blochmann, n. sp.; Kraus- 
sina lamarckiana, Davidson, which remains unaltered; and 
