496 LIST OF SPECIES OP POKCELLANA OR CYPR^A, DONATIONS. Meddelanden af Societas pro Pauna et Flora Fennica, Mittheilungen aus der Zoologisclien Station zu Neapel, 1880. Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera, by Oapt. T. Broun. Mr. Brazier on behalf of J. H. Tbomson Esq., New Bedford, Mass., presented tlie Society the following works, which, he stated were of singular value to Australian Naturalists : Testacea Nova Australiae, Morelet. Metz., 1857; and Molluscorum Novae HoUandise specimen, Menke, Hanover, 1843. papers read. List of species of Porcellana or Oypr^a found in Moreton Bay, Queensland. By J. Brazier, O.M.Z.S., &c. I have been requested by numerous correspondents in New South Wales and Queensland to publish in the Proceedings of this Society a Catalogue of the species of Cijprma found in Moreton Bay, as the Conchological Works on the subject published in England and Europe are very seldom to be found in the library of young beginners. Last year I wrote a paper on the Moreton Bay species of Cypr(2a and it was published in the English Journal of Conchology, Vol. II., p. 317, a work seen only by a few in these Colonies. A few remarks on Moreton Bay may be of interest. It was on the 17th of May, 1770, the celebrated circumnavigator. Captain James Cook, dropped anchor from the bows of the good ship '' Endeavour," in the waters of a large inlet on the eastern coast of Australia, to which he gave the name of 'Moreton Bay,' in honour of his patron the Earl of Moreton, the then President of the Eoyal Society. The bay is an extensive sheet of water separating Shadbroke and Moreton Islands from the mainland. It is about forty miles long, north and south, and seventeen miles broad. Stradbroke Island is thirty-three miles long, north and
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