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Show 1867.] MR. G. F. ANGAS ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA. 199 74. RUMA UMBILICATA. Naticina umbilicata, Quoy, Voy. de l'Astrol. ii. p. 224, pl. 66. f. 22, 23. A few small colourless examples of this species (which in Tasmania and South Australia is handsomely banded with brown) were dredged in Port Jackson. Length of Port Jackson specimens 6 lines; Tasmanian specimens 1 inch. 75. CATINUS ZONALIS. Sigaretus zonalis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol. v. p. 2, pl. 66. f. 1-3. This species, so comiinon to the westward, is very rarely met with in Port Jackson. Length 10 lines. Fam. LAMELLARIID.E. 76. LAMELLARIA INDICA. Marsenia indica, Leach. A thin, transparent, white species, somewhat resembling the British L. perspicua, Linn., only four times as large. The animal covers the shell. Found on Coodgee Beach, washed up amongst shell-sand. Length 11 lines. This shell must not be confounded with Coriocella nigra of Quoy. Fam. SCALID^E. 77. SCALA SCALARIS. 'Turbo scalaris, Linn. Scalaria pretiosa, Lam.; Sow. Thes. pl. 32. f. 17. Of this fine shell (the well-known " Wentle-trap " of the China seas) two or three small-sized specimens have been obtained, washed ashore upon the beaches outside Port Jackson. Length of largest New South Wales specimen | inch. 78. SCALA LINEOLATA. Scalaria lineolata, Kien.; Sow. Thes. pl. 33. f. 45, 46, 48. An elegant little species, short and stout, having one or more brown bands on the whorls. Dredged in deep water in Port Jackson. It occurs also in the Philippines and Japan. Length 5 lines. 79. SCALA PHILIPPINARUM. Scalaria philippinarum, Sow. P. Z. S. 1844 ; Thes. Conch, pl. 32. ^ f. 1-3. An acuminate white species, with rather distant, thin, oblique varices. Dredged in Port Jackson; found also in xlmboyna and the Philippines. Length 10 lines. |
