282 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



Turbo militaris Reeve. 



Turbo militaris Reeve, Conch. Icon., iv., 1848, PI. ix., fig. 40. 



In the British Museum is a single specimen, apparently the type 

 of Turbo militaris, but not so marked, which is labelled "I. of 

 Anaa." Accompanying this is a series from Port Curtis, Queens- 

 land, and New South Wales, embracing a smooth and a thorny 

 variety. Contrary to the suggestion of the name, the smooth is 

 typical. The Paumotuan locality, unsupported by further evidence 

 and incongruous with Australian records, appears to be an error. 



This is the species which Angas, to the misleading of Australian 

 conchologists, has recorded as Turbo imperialis from Watson's Bay 

 and Moreton Bay.* But Turbo imperialis Gmelin does not exist in 

 Australasia. 



The Turbo from the coral reef of Lord Howe Island, determined 

 by Mr. Brazierf as T. imperialis, is really as I ascertained by ex- 

 amination of the type in London, Turbo cepoides Smith.! The 

 habitat of T. cepoides is here first announced. Brazier's misiden- 

 tification was continued by Whitelegge, who called a new hermit 

 crab Calcinus imperialis, because of its occupation of the empty 

 Turbo shell. 



There are in the British Museum three, apparently types, of 

 Turbo speciosus Reeve. These confirmed me in the recognition 

 (antea xxxii., p. 479) of this previously unlocalised species from 

 Mast Head Island. 



Leptothyra crassilirata Preston. 

 (Plate xvii., fig.50.) 

 Leptothyra crassilirata Preston, Proc. Malac. Soc. viii., 1909, p. 

 377, text-figure. 



The published figure of this species is so vague that it might as 

 well represent a finger print from a police record. It is curious 

 that in London where good figures could be so easily obtained, con- 



* Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p.96. 

 tEtheridge, Mem. Austr. Mus., ii., 1889, pp.24, 29. 

 X Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), vi., 1880, p. 397; Id., Sowerby, Thes. 

 Conch, v., 1886, p. 193, PI. 499, f.65. 



