BY C. HEDLEY. 509 



Arcularia dorsata Bolteii. 



Bucciniiin dorsatum Bolten, Mus. Bolt. (2) 1798, p.lU, for 

 Martini, Conch. Cab. iv., pl.cxxv., figs. 1194, 1195. 



For this species F. P. Marrat has recommended*'' the name of 

 Nassa tri/asciata Gmelin. Probably he did not observe that 

 Omelin duplicated this name by proposing Buccinum trifasciatum 

 first on Syst. Nat. xiii. p.3477, for Cassidea gramdata Born, and 

 then again on p. 3489 for this species. So Gmelin's name is 

 obliterated by himself. 



Next in order appears to be the name of Bolten, which, founded 

 on a figure of the Conchylien Cabinet, recognised as applicable 

 to our shell by E. A. Smith,! precedes the names which Brazier! 

 has enumerated, N, livida Gray, N. unicolor Kiener, etc. 



Roth states§ that the Batavia River Blacks eat the mollusc 

 and call it "tru-no." 



Arcularia semitexta Hedley. 



Nassa semitexta Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus. iii. 1899, p. 462, 

 fig.37. 



This species was discovered in the Ellice Islands; its taxonomic 

 position is still a matter of uncertainty. A single broken 

 individual, half the size of my type from Funafuti, extends its 

 range to Australia. 



Pyrene abyssicola Brazier. 



Columbella abyssicola Brazier, These Proceedings, i. 1877, 

 p.232. 



(Plate xix., figs. 40, 41, 42, 43.) 



The shell figured for this species by Tryon|| does not agree 

 with the description or with the authentic specimens that I have 



* Marrat, Journ. of Conch, ii. 1879, p. 78. 



t Smith, Zool. Coll. Alert, 1884, p.48. 



X Brazier, These Proceedings, x. 1886, p. 86. 



§ Roth, North Q'ld. Ethnography, Bull. iii. 1901, p. 18. 



IjTryon, Man. Conch, v. 1883, p.l41, pl.51, fig.65. 



