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Show 568 DR. J. COX ON NEW LAND AND MARINE SHELLS. [June 17, VOLUTA (CALLIPARA) BRAZIERI, sp. nov. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 8.) Shell oblong-ovate, thin ; spire very slightly raised, acute ; whorls smooth, striated longitudinally with lines of growth, and very finely closely striated throughout transversely with fine sculptured lines, apex granular; last whorl large and ventricose, shouldered towards the apex, and moderately contracted at the base ; columella three-plaited, the plaits thin, close-set, prominent, and short ; aperture ascending as high as the shoulder of the last whorl, narrow above, much wider below, owing to the receding columella ; outer lip scarcely thickened, indistinctly banded about the centre with dark chestnut, ornamented with irregular buff-coloured markings. Length 1*10; width 0*55 of an inch. Hab. Wooli Wooli, Clarence River, east coast of New South Wales. VOLUTA MACGILLIVRAYI, sp. nov. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 9.) Shell ovate or oblong-ovate, thick, ponderous ; spire short, conical, obtuse, obsoletely noduled at the apex; whorls smooth, bluntly angled above and nodosely tubercled at the angle, generally with nine large tubercles; cream-coloured, last whorl ornamented with three dark brown-red zones, composed of irregular-sized and irregularly distributed short dark brownish-red lines placed longitudinally, and minute round dots of the same colour, the interstices showing the cream-colour of the shell in irregular-sized pale spots, and displaying faint broad waved lines running longitudinally; columella strongly four-plaited ; interior of the aperture and the columella pale orange carnelian; outer margin rather thin, rather widely expanded, and angulated opposite the row of tubercles. Length 3*10; breadth 1*50 of an inch. Hab. Woodlark Island (mus. Cox). This fine species is allied to V. innexa, Reeve; but it is a much more ponderous shell, and is quite distinct in its markings, having none of those triangular ones characteristic of that species, and it is broader at the base. The peppered-like spots very much resemble those of V. piperata, Sow.; but it shows none of the olive-black waved streaks of that species, and, unlike V. piperata, it is bluntly shouldered with large nodular tubercles ; the spire of V. piperata is also more attenuated and is smooth. They differ also materially in the shape and colour of the aperture. VOLUTA INNEXA, Reeve. Four very fine specimens of this rare species have been recently added to our Australian cabinets. Its true habitat has been ascertained without doubt to be the Louisiade group of islands, to the north-east of the Australian continent. CYPR^EA COXENI, sp. nov. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 10.) Shell subcylindrically ovate, attenuately beaked anteriorly ; aper- |