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Show 190 MR. G. F. ANGAS ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA. [Feb. 14, 21. *C0MINELLA FILICEA. Buccinum filiceum, Crosse et Fisch. Journ. de Conch. 1864, p. 346, pl. 3. f. 15,16. Under stones at low water. A pretty species, strongly longitudinally ribbed, tessellated and lined with brown. This species also occurs at Yorke's Peninsula, South Australia. Length 1 inch. 22. NASSA (ALECTRION) SUTURALIS, var. Buccinum suturale, Lam.; Chem. pl. 125. f. 1199, 1200. Dredged in Port Jackson, near the "Sow and Pigs." This thin, elongated variety, in which the sutural nodules are obsolete, may be distinguished by its smooth whorls, and linear painting flamed and articulated with brown. Length 1 inch 3 lines. 23. NASSA (ALECTRION) JACKSONIANA. Buccinum jacksonianum, Kien. Mon. Bucc. pl. 19. f. 73. Dredged in Middle Harbour. The whorls are frequently banded with brown and granulated at the upper part. Length 7 lines. 24. NASSA (NIOTHA) PAUPERATA. Buccinumpauperatum, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. x. p. 183. Of this species, so abundant in South Australia and Tasmania, a somewhat thin brownish variety occurs rarely in Port Jackson, in which the granulations upon the longitudinal plicae are nearly obsolete. Length 7 lines. 25. NASSA (HIMA) RUFOCINCTA. Nassa rufocincta, A. Ad. P. Z. S. 1851, p. 106. A pretty species, with an elevated spire and rounded cancellated whorls, belonging to the same group as the British N. incrassata, Miill., and N. compacta, Ang., from St. Vincent's Gulf, South Australia. Length 7 lines. 26. NASSA (ARCULARIA) MANGELOIDES. Nassa mangeloides, Reeve, Conch. Icon. (Nassa). Found on mud-flats at low water. The callus of the inner lip in this species extends over the front of the body-whorl. Length \ inch. 27. NASSA (ARCULARIA) LABECULA. Nassa labecula, A. Ad. P. Z. S. 1851, p. 98. A pretty little species, found on sandy mud at Middle Harbour at low tides; it is stained with yellow and rufous, banded below the sutures with livid purple, and has a blotch of the same colour on the columella-callus. Length 5 lines. 28. *NERITULA (CALLOMPHALA) LUCIDA. Callomphala lucida, Ad. & Ang. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 35. |
