66 ON FOSSARINA PETTERDI, BRAZIER. DONATIONS. Description of some remains o£ the Grigantic Land Lizard {Megalania prisca, Owen) of Australia, parts II. and III., by Prof. Owen, C.B. From the Grovernment of Western Australia — Report on the Forest Eesources of "Western Australia, by Baron Ferd. Von. Mueller, K.C.M.Gr. ; Lecture on Injurious Insects, by Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.M.S. From Prof. Ralph Tate, of Adelaide, South Australia, the following papers : — On the Australian Tertiary Palliobranchs ; Anniversary Address to the Royal Society of South Australia ; the G-eology about Port Wakefield ; Supplement to a Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns, 18S1 ; on the Greographical relations of the Pulmonif erus mollusca of Victoria ; descriptions of some new species of South Australian Pulmonif era; description of a new species of Belemnite. from the mesozoic strata in Central Australia. From the Royal Microscopical Society — the Journal for December, 1881. Southern Science Record, January, 1882, Vol. II., Xo. 1. papers read. Note on Fossarina petterdi. Brazier. By F. W. IIutton, Hon. Mem. Rot. Soc. Tas. Some time ago I received from Mr. Petterd, among other Tasmanian shells, several specimens labelled Fossarina petterdi, One of these contained the animal, and I extracted it and examined its dentition with the view of comparing it with my Fossarina varius. I found that the Tasmanian animal has a multispiral horny operculum, and the characteristic dentition of the TrochidcB much like Gantharidus. It is therefore not a Fossarina (a genus made I believe by Adams and Angas for some
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