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Show 187L] MR. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. 585 6. Notes on the Localities of Dolium melanostoma and other Shells found in Australia and the adjacent Islands and in the Australian Seas. By J O H N BRAZIER. C.M.Z.S. [Received May 24, 1871.] 1. CONUS RHODODENDRON. Conus rhododendron, Couthouy, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York. Conus adamsoni, Gray, MS. British Museum. Conus cingulatus, Sowerby, Tankerville Catalogue, Appendix, p. 34; Conch. Illust. f. 108. Conus adamsoni, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 4, species 22. Conus rhododendron, Sowerby, Thes. Conch, vol. iii. frontispiece, fig. 504, p. 38, species 329. Conus adamsoni, Chenu, Manuel de Conch, part 1, titlepage two figures, and page 249, figs. 1527 & 1528. Hab. Bampton Reef and shoals, South Pacific Ocean, in lat., 19° 51' S._ long. 158° 20' E. (coll. Brazier). This fine and very rare species, described first by Couthouy, is not found on the Australian coast as stated by Mr. Reeve, Sowerby, and others. Of the fine variety figured by Chenu, I have only seen one specimen; and that was in the collection of my friend Mr. Hargraves. Of the type I have had four examples. As it is a deep-water shell, it is only found after heavy gales on the Reef, along with Coni crocatus, ftoccatus, vitulinus, Voluta thatcheri, pacificus, samar, and thersites, and Pyrazus gourmyi. 2. DOLIUM MELANOSTOMA. Dolium melanostoma, Jay, Mus. Cat. 1839, p. 124, pis. 8 & 9 ; Reeve Conch. Icon. 1848, pl. 2. fig. 2 ; Catlow and Reeve, Conch. Nomenclator, p. 276. Hab. Elizabeth Reef, South Pacific Ocean, in lat. 31° 43' S., long. 159° E. (coll. Brazier). Reeve gives the Friendly Islands as the locality of this species, but it must be an error. My examples were obtained in deep water by a black, when diving for Holothurice or Beche-de-mer. Elizabeth Reef is four hundred and fifty miles east of Port-Jackson Heads. 3. PARTULA CALEDONICA. Partula caledonica, Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 389; Pfr. Mon. Hel. Viv. vol. vi. p. 157. Hab. Havannah Harbour, Sandwich Island, New Hebrides, also Vavua Lava, or Great Island, in Banks's Islands (coll. Brazier). Dr. Pfeiffer gives the locality of this species as New Caledonia on the authority of the late Mr. H. Cuming. Up to the present time, |