BY C. HEDLEY. 721 



The furrow on the pad suggests a relationship with P. aulaco- 

 glossa Pilsbry and Vanatta. In size, shape, and general appear- 

 ance, the nearest is Natica phytelephas Reeve,* but that differs 

 by its white colour and unfurrowed pad. In the British Museum, 

 four specimens, apparently part of the same lot as my type, are 

 regarded as unnamed. 



^a6.— Dredged by Mr. J. Brazier, in 4 fathoms, mud, off 

 Peat's Ferry, Hawkesbury River, N.S.W. 



ScAPHELLA Swainson. 



Scaphella Swainson, Zoological Illustrations, 2nd Series, Vol. 

 ii., Part 19, 1832, Plate 87, type, Voluta maculata Swainson; (not 

 Scaphella of subsequent writers). Amoria Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1855, p. 64, type, Voluta turneri Griffiths and Pidgeon. Terni- 

 voluta von Martens, Archiv f. Naturg., Ixiii., 1897, p. 177, type, 

 V. studeri von Martens. 



"It is extremely probable," wrote Martin Woodward, "that 

 we are at present incorporating in the Volutidae several forms 

 derived from distinct stocks."! As the type of Linne's genus 

 Voluta is generally agreed to be Voluta musica,l it is apparent 

 that Voluta proper does not occur in Australia, and that other 

 names must be found for the species formerly assigned to that 

 genus. 



Searching for the foundations of Scaphella, error and disagree- 

 ment are obvious in literature. So reliable an author as Agassizg 

 cites the genus from " Swainson's Elements of Modern Conch- 

 ology, 1835," and the type is variously given as junonia Chemnitz, 

 nndulata Lamarck, or papillosa Swainson. Actually, the type 

 is V. maculata, and the genus was introduced in 1832. In the 

 second edition of Swainson's " Exotic Conchology," and of the 

 " Bligh Catalogue " issued by Hanley in 1841, Scaphella is 

 defined and used. The first edition of these rare publications is 



* Reeve, Uonch. Icon., ix., 1855, PI. xi., fig. 42. 



t Woodward, Proc. Malac. Soc, iv., 1900, p. 124. 



t Pace, Proc. Malac Soc, v., 1902, p.21. 



§ Agassiz, Nomina Syst., 1846, Moll., p. 80. 



