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Hab. ■ Cape York, North Australia, 5, 1 1 fathoms, sandy mud 

 bottom ; Katow, New Guinea, 7 fathoms, mud bottom, specimens 

 dead ; Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 15, 20, 30 fathoms, sandy 

 bottom. 



9. — Erato gallinacea. 



Ovulum galUnaceum, Hinds, Moll. Voyage, Sulphur. 



Erato gallinacea, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. 3, p. 83, Thes. pi. 

 219, fig. 33, 34. 



Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 20, 30 fathoms, sandy 

 bottom. 



1 0. — Erato angyostom a. 



Erato angyostoma, Sowerby, Conch. Illust. f. 51. 



,, ,, ,, Thes. Conch, vol. 3, p. 83, Thes. 



pi. 219, fig. 19, 20, 23, 24. 



Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 20, 30 fathoms, sandy 

 bottom, found with E. gallinacea (Hinds) ; Katow, New Guinea, 

 7 fathoms, sandy mud bottom. 



Sub-Family Columbellin.e. 



11. columbella fulgurans. 



Colombella fidgnrans, Lam. Anim. Sans Vert., tome 7, p. 296. 



„ punctata „ „ „ „ „ p. 297. 



Columbella fulgurans, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. 1, p. 125, pi. 



38, fig. 94, 95, 96: 



,, ,, Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 11, sp. 50 a,b. 



Hab. Barnard Islands No. 3, North-East Coast of Australia ; 

 Barrow Island, North-East Australia; Cape Grenville, North- 

 East Australia, found under stones. 



The figure given by Sowerby in Thesaurus Conchyliorum at 

 pi. 38, fig. 94, is Lamarck's C. punctata. Lamarck in his 

 " Historie Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres," 1822, uses the 

 term Colombella, all recent writers the term Columbella. 



12. — Columbella scripta. 

 Columbella scripta, Lam. Anim. Sans Vert. 1822, tome 7, p. 295. 

 „ versicolor, Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1832, 



p. 119. 



