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Show 1867-] MR. G. F. ANGAS ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA. 227 260. BULLA MAGDELUS. Bulla magdelus, Lister. B. ovulum, Gould (MS. in Coll. Cuming). A brown-clouded species, rather solid, and more swollen than B. punctulata. Middle Harbour and Long Bay. Length 1 inch 1 line. 261. HAMINIA BREVIS. Bulla brevis, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol. pl. 26. f. 36, 37. Dredged in Middle Harbour; and Port Stephen, New South Wales. Length 8 lines. 262. AKERA SOLUTA. Bulla soluta, Chem., Mart. Hist. Conch, x. t. 46. f. 1359-1361. B. tenuis, A. Adams; Sow. Thes. Conch, pl. 121. f. 45. Found in sandy mud, Botany Bay. It is also found in the Philippines ; Zanzibar; and Spencer's Gulf, South Australia; also in Torres Straits. It varies greatly in size. Length of Botany Bay specimens 10 lines, Spencer's Gulf specimens 1 inch 5 lines, Zanzibar specimens 1 inch 9 lines. Fam. PHILINID,E. 263. *PHILINE ANGASI. Bulla angasi, Crosse, Journ. de Conch. 1865, pl. 2. f. 8. Generally distributed along the Australian coasts. Common on mud-banks. Nearly allied to Bulla coreanica of A. Ad., from the Korean archipelago. Length 1 inch 4 lines. The gizzard of this* species resembles in form that of the British B. quadripartita. 264. *CHELIDONURA ADAMSI. Chelidonura adamsi, Angas, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 116. The shell is small, flat, thin, and patulous, with the outer lip produced posteriorly, and is concealed in the thickness of the mantle. The animal of C. adamsi is extremely beautiful. It is of a velvet-black, having the mantle and the two long projecting tails bordered with lines of cobalt-blue and gold. On the back is a small white crescent-shaped spot. Found in a rock-pool at low water, at the " Bottle and Glass," Vaucluse Bay, Port Jackson. Length of animal 2 inches " The only other species of the genus as yet described is the C. hi-rundinina of Quoy, from the Mauritius, the animal of which is of fine blue and emerald-green colours. Fam. APLYSIID^;. 265. DOLABELLA SCAPULA. Dolabella scapula, Martyu. |