Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake - Volume Ii Part 43
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37. H. dupuyana, Pfeiffer. (Chemnitz, Ed. 2nd, Helix, t. 124, f. 15, 16).

Locality: Bellingen River, in the brushes (Macgillivray).

38. H. pachystyla, Pfeiffer.

Locality: Facing Island, Port Curtis; Dunk Island; Cape Upstart, at roots of bushes; Wide Bay, under bark of Eucalyptus resinifera (Macgillivray).

This fine species was originally recorded as a native of New Zealand; was not the supposed habitat a mistake?

39. H. yulei, Forbes. (Voyage Rattlesnake, t. 2, f. 6).

Locality: Port Molle (Macgillivray).

40. H. iuloidea, Forbes. (Voyage Rattlesnake, t. 2, f. 4).

Locality: Port Molle (Macgillivray).

41. H. ptycomphala, Pfeiffer.

Locality: Roots of trees among dead leaves at Cape Upstart (Macgillivray).

42. H. dunkiensis, Forbes. (Voyage Rattlesnake, t. 2, f. 7.) Locality: Dunk Island (Macgillivray).

43. H. macgillivrayi, Forbes. (Voyage Rattlesnake, t. 3, f. 1).

Locality: Frankland Isles (Macgillivray).

44. H. franklandiensis, Forbes. (Voyage Rattlesnake, t. 2, f. 2).

Locality: Frankland Isles and Lizard Island (Macgillivray).

45. H. inconspicua, Forbes. (Voyage Rattlesnake, t. 2, f. 3).

Locality: Islet in Trinity Bay (Macgillivray).

46. H. brevipila, Pfeiffer. (Chemnitz, Ed. 2, Helix t. 124, f. 28-30).

Locality: Under dead leaves at roots of trees in Sunday Island (Macgillivray).

47. H. fraseri, Gray. (Beechey's Voyage Zool. t. 38, f. 6).

Locality: Wide Bay and Clarence River, New South Wales, in the scrubs (Macgillivray). The true locality of this species--first given by Beck--is thus verified.

48. H. gaertneriana, Pfeiffer.

Locality: Night Island, on trunks and branches of a Bombax (Macgillivray).

49. H. sericatula, Pfeiffer.

Locality: Port Jackson (Strange).

BULIMUS.

1. B. faba, Martyn. (Reeve Conch. Syst. t. 175, f. 13, 14).

Locality: Australian Isles ? A Polynesian species.

2. B. tuckeri, Pfeiffer.

Locality: Inhabits most of the islands on the North-East coast of Australia. Among dead leaves at the roots of trees and bushes in Fitzroy, Sunday, and Lizard Islands, and at roots of gra.s.s in Sir Charles Hardy's Islands (Macgillivray).

3. B. dufresnii, Leach. (Fer. Hist, t. 3. f. 1-3).

Locality: Van Diemen's Land. Under logs and stones (Macgillivray).

4. B. atomatus, Gray. (Reeve Conch. Icon. Bulimus, t. 30, f. 184).

Locality: New South Wales (Macgillivray). Western Australia (Brit. Mus.)

5. B. kingii, Gray. (Wood, Suppl. t. 7, f. 27).

Locality: Bald Head, King George Sound (King).

6. B. trilineatus, Quoy and Gaimard. (Voyage Astr. 2, t. 9, f. 1-3).

Locality: Bald Head, King George Sound (Quoy and Gaimard). "Varietas praecedentis esse videtur." Pfeiffer.

7. B. rhodostomus, Gray.

Locality: New Holland ?

8. B. indutus, Menke.

Locality: Darling Range and Mount Eliza, Swan River (Priess).

9. B. melo, Quoy and Gaimard. Voyage Astr. 2 t. 9, f. 4-7.) Locality: Bald Head, King George's Sound (Quoy and Gaimard).

10. B. bulla, Menke.

Locality: Darling Range, Western Australia (Priess.)

11. B. inflatus, Lamarck. (Delessert Recueil. t. 28, f. 1).

Locality: New Holland (Lamarck.) New Zealand (Beck).

12. B. obtusus, Reeve. (Conch. Icon. t. 79, f. 583).

Locality: Australia.

PUPA.

1. P. pacifica, Pfeiffer.

Locality: "Sir Charles Hardy's Islands (Tucker)," Pfeiffer--where Mr.

Macgillivray also found it about roots of gra.s.s and bushes in 1844. Under dead leaves at roots of trees in Sunday Island, and Lizard Island (Macgillivray).

BALEA.

1. B. australis, Forbes. (Voyage Ratt1esnake, t. 2, f. 9).

Locality: Port Molle (Macgillivray).

VITRINA.

1. V. cuvieri, Ferussac. (Hist. t. 9, f. 8, and t. 9 A, f. 1, 2).

Locality: Australia.

2. V. freycineti, Ferussac. (Hist. t. 9 A, f. 3, 4, 9, and t. 9 B, f. 2).

Locality: Port Jackson.

3. V. robusta, Gould.

Locality: East coast of New Holland.

4. V. nigra, Quoy and Gaimard. (Voyage Astr. 2 t. 11, f. 8, 9).

Locality: Port Western and King George Sound (Quoy and Gaimard).