BY C. HEDLEY. 453 



iglossy; immature shell with fine close spiral punctate grooves. 

 Aperture crescentic, canaliculate at either end. Outer lip 

 thickened and reflected, finely closely denticulate within. Inner 

 lip with a thick callus deposit. In the young (fig. 87) there are 

 five columellar plaits decreasing gradually in size, the least about 

 the centre of the aperture; in the adult, two large, and one small 

 plait alone are visible. Length 2*2; breadth 1-6 mm. 



A few specimens, from 8 fathoms, Weary Bay. I also took it, 

 in 15 fathoms, off the Palm Islands; and in 17-20 fathoms, off 

 M;tst Head Reef. 



TuRRis GRANOSus Helbling. 



Murex [Fusus) graiiosus Helbling, Abh. Privatges. Bohm. iv. 

 1779, p.116, P1.2, f.l6; id., von Martens, Malak. Blatt. xvi. 1869, 

 p.235; id., Dall, Journ. of Conch, xi. 1906, p.291; Pleurotonia 

 caririata Griffiths k Pidgeon, MoUusca and Radiata, 1831, p. 599, 

 P1.23, f.2; ^c/.,Weinkauff, Jahrb. d. deut. Malak. Gesell., ii., 1875, 

 p.288, Pl.ix.,f.2; Pleurotoma speciosa Reeve, Conch. Icon. i. 1843, 

 Pl.ii., f.9; Pleurotoma kienerii Doumet, Mag. de Zool. 1840, Moll., 

 Pl.lO; id., Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), xiv. 1894, p.l60. 



A few specimens were dredged in 5-8 fathoms, Cairns Reef. 

 The species is hitherto unknown from Australia. Mr. Gabriel 

 identified a s[)ecimen we took, with a shell from the Belcher Col- 

 lection in the British Museum, marked " Pleurotoma kieneri 

 Doumet." 



Drillia livida Gmelin. 



Stroinhus llvidas Gmelin, Syst. Nat. xiii. 1791, p. 3523, for 

 Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. ix. 1786, PL 136, f. 1269-70. Pleurotoma 

 auricuUfera Lamark, An. s. vert. vii. 1822, p.91; id., Deshayes, 

 op. cit. 2 ed. ix. 1843, p. 345. 



In the absence of a figure and a type, the Linnean Stromhus 

 lividus is, according to Hanley,* unrecognisable. Under these 

 circumstances, it is better to adopt the name of Gmelin, securely 

 based on the figure of Chemnitz, than to use Lamarck's auricu- 



* Hanley, Ips. Linn. Conch. 1855, p. 278. 



