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Show 1871.] MR. G. F. ANGAS ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA. 93 41. CLATHURELLA BICOLOR, Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, Pl. I. f. 20. Of a pale ash-colour, with the base of the last whorl chocolate-brown. "Sow and Pigs" (Brazier). 42. CLATHURELLA BILINEATA, Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, Pl. I. f. 23. A small ovate straw-coloured species, white at the aperture, with two narrow brown bands on the last whorl. Dredged near the " Sow and Pigs" (Brazier). 43. CLATHURELLA ALBOCINCTA, Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, Pl. I. f. 22. Ovately fusiform, with the last whorl stained with brown, having an opaque white band in the centre. Dredged near the "Sow and Pigs" (Brazier). 44. CLATHURELLA BRAZIERI, Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, PI. I. f. 21. Narrowly elongately turreted, pale brown, darker on the lower whorl and at the apex, and with the channel sharply recurved. Dredged near the "Sow and Pigs" (Brazier). Fam. CONID^E. 45. CONUS APLUSTRE, Reeve, Conch. Icon. Conus, pl. 30. f. 170. The figure of this Cone is so bad in Reeve's work as to be scarcely recognizable. The shell is of a light yellowish chestnut, profusely filleted with markings of a darker colour, and with a pale band round the middle of the last whorl. It averages 1 inch in length. " Bungaree Nora," Broken Bay; Lake Macquarie; Cape Solander, Botany Bay ; also from Port Fairy, Bass's Straits (Brazier). 46. CONUS COOKI, Brazier, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 109. A species 10 lines long, marked with reddish, undulating, longitudinal lines, and somewhat resembling a small non-coronated specimen of the C. princeps from Gulf of California. Mr. Brazier found this new Cone amongst the rocks at the spot where Capt. Cook landed at Botany Bay. 47. CONUS ROSSITERI, Brazier, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 109. Mr. Brazier says of this shell that it is allied to C. gilvus of Reeve. I have never seen the specimen; but, from his description, I take it to be in an immature state. Cape Solander, Botany Bay. 48. CONUS RUTILUS, Menke, Moll. Nov. Holl.p.57. no. 133. This pretty little Cone varies in colour from brown to orange, red or purple, and is occasionally freckled with lines and spots. In the South-Australian gulfs I met with it frequently. Mr. Brazier obtained five specimens at Cape Solander, Botany Bay. |