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Show 1877.] MOLLUSCA OF PORT JACKSON. 181 Fam. FASCIOLARITD^E. 33. FASCIOLARIA CORONATA, Lam. Twofold Bay. Ranges westward to the Great Australian Bight. 34. LATIRUS STRANGEI, A. Ad. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 316. Port Jackson (Strange). Fam. VOLUTID^E. 35. V O L U T E L L A PAPILLOSA, Swainson. Voluta papillaris, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. iv. fig. 10. Obtained in the dredge in very deep water near Montagu Island, 25 miles off the coast of New South Wales (Brazier). 36. SCAPHA MAMILLA, Gray. Found on the beach near Lake Macqnarie (Brazier). 37. CALLIPARA BRAZIERI, COX, P.Z. S. 1873, pl. xlviii. fig. 8. Little River. Wooli Wooli, near mouth of the Clarence rive) (Brazier). The type of Dr. Gray's genus Callipara is the Voluta bullata, Swainson, from Algoa Bay, South Africa. Another Australian species of this curious genus has been found at Nicol Bay, on the north-west coast, and described by Dr. Cox (P. Z. S. 1871, pl. xxxiv. fig. 5) as V. coniformis. 38. MICROVOLUTA AUSTRALTS, Angas, P. Z. S. 1877, pl- v. fig. 2. Dredged in 25 fathoms outside Port-Jackson Heads (Brazier). This singular little shell has somewhat the aspect of a Voluta fulgetrum in miniature; but the deep siphonal notch and the toothed projection of the base of the pillar are wanting, the base being rounded and spout-shaped. Fam. MITRID^E. 39. M I T R A (NEBULARIA) BADIA, Reeve. Shark Island, Port Jackson (Brazier). Subfam. COLUMBELLINJE, 40. C O L U M B E L L A TYLERI, Gray. Near Bellenger River (Brazier). 41. COLUMBELLA (ANACHIS) SMITHI, Angas, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 172, pl. xxvi. fig. 7. A minute brown species zoned with white dots. Under .stones in Port Jackson. The C. lentiginosa of Reeve (not Hinds) is from North Australia. I propose that it should be called C. darwini. |