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dos Roches in 13 fms., also Friday Island and Prince of Wales
Channel (5 -7 fms.), Torres Straits (Oojipinr/er) ; Zebu, Philippines
(J/«s. Gaming); Nagasaki (LischJce) ; Matoza Harbour, Japan,
6 fins. {Capt. St. John).
73. Cerithium granosum.
Kiener, Coq. Viv. pi. 4. fig. 3 ; Soiverhy, Conch. Icon. fig. 73.
Uab. Friday Island, Torres Straits {Coppinger) ; Port Essington
{Brit. Mus.); Red Sea {Kiener).
74. Cerithium novae-hollandiae.
A. Adams; Soiverhy's Thes. Conch, vol. ii. pi. 178. fig. 54; Beeve,
Conch. Icon. lig. 30.
Ilah. Port Molle, Queensland, Prince of Wales Channel, and
Friday Island, Torres Straits {Coppinger); Cape York, Mud Bay,
N. Australia {Brazier).
75. Lampania australis.
Cerithium australe {Q. ^ G.) ; Kiener, Coq. Viv. pi. 8. fig. 2.
Hab. Port Curtis.
76. Pyrazus sulcatus, Born.
Hab. Thursday Island, Roko Island, in mangrove-swamps {Coppinger)
; Dungeness Island, Torres Straits {Brazier).
77. Telescopium fuscum, Schumacher.
Hab. Roko Island, Endeavour Straits, in mangrove-swamps.
78. Siliquaria auguina, Linn.
Sowerby, Conch. Icon. figs. 7 a-7 c.
Hab. Port Darwin, 8-12 fms.
The single specimen from the above locality belongs to the p u rplish
rose variety of the species.
79. Siliquaria ponderosa.
March ; Soiverhy’s Conch. Icon. pi. 2. fig. 3.
Hah. Port Molle, Queensland, and Prince of Wales Channel,
Torres Straits, 5 -7 fms.
80. Narica cancellata.
Chemnitz ; Recluz, Mag. de Zool. 1845, pi. 119 ; Sowerby, Conch. Icon.
figs. la ,h (Vanikoro).
Hah. Port Molle, 12-20 fms. {Coppinger) ; Moluccas and Lord
Hood’s Island (toAZttz) ; Oomaga Reef {Jukes) ; Mauritius (A/arie?is) ;
Home Islands, off Cape Grenville, N.E. Australia, and Darnley
Island, Torres Straits {Brazier).
With this species N. cidaris and N. petitiana have very close
relationship, and, indeed, at present I cannot appreciate their points
of distinction,
81. Nerita chrysostoma.
Récluz ; Reere, Conch. Icon. pi. iv. figs. 18 a, b.
Hah. Friday and Thursday Islands, Torres Straits, and Endeavour
Straits, N. Australia {Coppnnger) ; Philippine Islands {Cuming).
AA’ith this species should probably he united N. Le guillouana,
N. savieana, JY. longii, K. aurantia (all of Recluz), and N . f uni-
culata, Reeve.
82. Nerita melanotragus.
Nerita atraía, Reeve {nonChemnitz),Conch. Icon. figs. 16 n, h ; Hutton,
Manual Moll. Neiv Zealand, p. 89 ; Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865,
p. 175 ; op. cit. 1867, p. 212.
Nerita {Quoy ^ Gaimard), Gray, Dieffenbach’s New Zealand,
vol. ii. p. 240.
Hah. New Zealand, common in the north, not found south of
Wellington {Hutton) ; Australia and Tasmania {Hutton) ; Port
Jackson {Coppinger, Angas, ^ c .); Norfolk Island {Brenchley) ;
Raoul or Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands {MacGillivx-ay, Yoy.
of H .M .S .‘H e ra ld ’).
I am inclined with Deshayes * and Martens f to consider the shell
figured by Reeve not the N . atrata of Chemnitz. That author
describes both lips as white, whereas the species figured by Reeve
has the outer lip remarkably margined with black. Besides, the
localities quoted in the ‘ Conchylien-Cabinet,’ namely^ tho coast of
Guinea and the AAYst Indies, do not support Reeve’s identification.
I t is not, however, improbable that the Nerita mentioned by
Chemnitz in the concluding paragraph of his description may have
been the N. atrata of Reeve, for he states it to have been bong h t
from the South Seas by one of the expeditions under Captain Cook.
I cannot find any species described by Qnoy and Gaimard under
the name N. nigra quoted by Gray in Dieffenbach’s work, although
they figure the animal only of a Bérite noirâtre in the ‘ T oyage de
rUranie et la Physicienne.’ The shell of th at species they do not
describe, on account of its had condition. The B . punctata, Q. & G.,
from the Mauritius is placed as a synonym of the present species
by Mr. Angas (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 175); but th at species I
consider perfectly distinct, being probably the same as the N. niger-
rima of Chemnitz as figured by Reeve, which varies to a considerable
extent in the amount of white dotting. The spire of N. punctata
is described as “ conrea’«, promincnti.” The aperture is said to ho
*■ Anim. sans Vertèbres, ed. 2, lol. viii. p. 603.
t Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen, p. 292.
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