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THE TASMANIAN NATURALIST. 59H new Chiton.

By W. L. MAY.\ lI . l /HILST at .the Club',. outing at Bellerive o ~ the. 12th February,'!I!i 1910, MIss Shoobndge showed me a Chlton Just taken frombeneath a stone (I afterwards found three more), it had an unfamiliarappearance but I provisionally placed it as a variety of our well knownC. nova-pollandia until it could be more carefully studied. However,it has now proved to be an interesting addition to our list, viz., Chitonquoyi, Desh, a well known Slew Zealand species. I t is true that Tenison-Woods in his Census, 1878, catalogues it, but without comment orhabitat, and for want of any confirmation it has been dropped by laterworkers We can now happily replace it in the list On an enduringbasis. I t is remarkable that such a conspicuous species (the largestspecimen being I t inches in length) should have so long escapeddetection, it is probably very local, and perhaps confined to the immediatevicinity of Bellerive Bluff. Such a discovery should be an incentive toour young naturalists to leave 'no stone unturned' during futureexcursions.

800ft notice.ti GII.OME Wild Flowers of Tasmania' is the title of an excellentS I little book of 120 pages, by L. Rodway, Government Botanist,in which the flowering plants of Tasmania are brought before youngbotanists in a chatty and thorough manner. NuilleroUs illustrationsfrom photographs by Miss Olive Bamard make the book most helpful,and the book should he known by heart from cover to cover by allinterested in nature study.

publications Received."-",HE following are the names of Joumals received in exchange for t he ' Tasmanian Naturalist ' : -

, Records of the Australian Museum,' Sydney., Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.', Publications from the National Herbarium,' Melbourne.