BY C. HEDLEY. 727 



In the genus Marginclla, as at present arranged, are included 

 species with diverse radulse and opercula."*^ Probably such dis- 

 memberment as has occurred in ^^ Valuta'' will, therefore, be 

 repeated in Marginella. 



Marginella maugeana, nom.mut. 



Marginella gracilis May, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1910(1911), 

 p.383, PI. xiii., fig. 4; (not M. gracilis C. B. Adams, Contributions 

 to Conchology, 1852, p.l30). 



The name chosen by Mr, May for a shell we dredged off Cape 

 Pillar, happens to have been selected for a Jamaican species 

 sixty years before. In giving it a new name, I have associated 

 it with Rene Mauge, an ardent conchologist on the scientific 

 staff of the " Geographe," who died at Maria Island, 21st Feb., 

 1802.t 



A pathetic story relates how his friend Peron landed on Bruni 

 Island, and gathered treasures by the handful. There was the 

 first recent Trigonia a naturalist had ever seen, which Peron at 

 once labelled Trigonia antarctica; there was a Turbo whose 

 beauty he expressed by the name of ^^Eustomiris," but which 

 Martyn had already called undulatus; there was a superb Venus 

 {Salacin disjecta), besides splendid Fhasianella, Trochus, Patella, 

 and Fissurella. 



To interest his sick colleague, he spread these magnificent 

 shells on his bunk. But poor dying Mauge burst into tears at 

 the thought of his helplessness, when such wonderful shells could 

 be gathered. He insisted on joining the shore-party next day, 

 but he fainted on the beach, and his next journey shorewards 

 was to his grave. 



Drillia commenticus, sp.nov. 



(Plate Ixxxii., fig.59.) 



Shell small, solid, narrowly fusiform. Colour uniform cream. 



Whorls nine. First three small and smooth, next with a dozen 



prominent curved radial ribs. On the following whorl, a keel 



arises from the base, reaches the periphery, and, as a conspicuous 



* Journ. Roy. Micros. Soc, Ser.2, ii., 1882, p.604. 

 t P^ron, Voy. Terr. Aust., i., 1807, p.240; ii., 1816, p. xxvii. 



