692 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN MOLLUSCA, 



This is another variable species sometimes of a shining brown 

 with a pale band at the sutures; others are finely mottled with 

 network. Having Mr. Petterd's types before me from Mr. 

 Beddome, I find that ColumbeUa attenuata, Angas, is identical 

 with Petterd's Terehra, Beddumei. 



2. Natica Beddombi, R. M. Johnston. 



1877. Natica polUa, Tenison- Woods, Proc. Royal Soc. Tasmania, 

 " Census; with Brief Description of the Marine Shells of 

 Tasmania," p. 32 (non Natica polita, 1875). 

 1884. Natica Beddomei, Johnston; Tate, Proc. Royal Soc. Tas- 

 mania, p. 208. 

 1884. Natica Beddomei, Johnston, Proc. Royal Soc. Tasmania, 

 p. 222. 



1886. Natica Bfiddoraei, Johnston; Tryon in Man. Conch, Vol. 

 viii. p. 54. 



1886. Natica effossa, Boog Watson, Report on the Gasteropoda, 

 Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger," Zoology, Vol. xv. pp. 4.39, 

 704-706, PI. xxviii. fig. 3. 

 1893. Natica Beddomei, Tate, Proc. Royal Soc. South Australia, 



Vol. xvii. p. 325. 



1893. Natica Beddomei, Adcock, "A Hand List of the Aquatic 



Mollusca of South Australia," p. 6, No. 168. 



Hub. — Bruni Island, Tasmania ( Jtev. H. D. Atkinson, W. 

 Jjeyrand, W. F. Petterd, C. E. Beddome): South Australia ( Fro- 

 fessor Tate): Station 161, April 1st, 1874, lat. 38° 22' 30" S., 

 long. 114° 36' 30" E., off the entrance to Port Phillip, Melbourne 

 33 fathoms, sand; Station 163 B, June 3, 1874, lat. 33° 51' 15" S., 

 long. 151° 22' 15" E.; Port Jackson, Sydney, 30 to 35 fathoms, 

 hard ground bottom; temperature 63° Fahr. (H.M.S. Cliatlenger): 

 off Port Jackson Heads, 5 miles due east, 45 fathoms, June 3, 

 1874, found with Typhis Cleryi, Sowerby (J. Brazier). 



The first specimen that I saw of this species was sent to me by 

 Mr. W. F. Petterd as far back as 1870, and since that I have 



