292 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



Tkiphora scitula A. Adams. 



Triphoris scitulus A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc.,1851(1854), p.278. 



Triphoris pfeifferl Crosse and Fischer, Journ. de Conch., xiii., 

 1864, p. 47, PL i., figs. 14, 15. 



In the British Museum, I found a tablet with seven specimens 

 labelled "scitulus A. Ad., Adelaide, S. Australia." Five of these, 

 as is noted on the under side, are T. pfeifferl. Again there is a tab- 

 let from the Cumingian Collection, with three specimens marked 

 "scitulus A. Ad., M.C."; these are all T. pfeifferl. This evidence 

 indicates, as I have already suggested (antea xxvii., p. 616), that 

 pfeifferi should give place to scitulus. One specimen of T. pfeifferl 

 is marked type, and was presented to the British Musum by G. F. 

 Angas. 



A tablet was also found, not marked type, bearing three shells 

 labelled "festivus A. Ad., S. Australia." Two of these are a 

 species subsequently described, and the third is different, and also 

 subsequently described. Under these circumstances I suggest that 

 T. festivus A. Ad. be abandoned as unintelligible. 



TURRITELLA CARLOTT.E WatSOll. 



Turritella carlottae Watson, Chall. Exp. Zool. xv., 1886, p. 478, 

 PL xxx., fig. 5. 



On the tablet in the British Museum of Turritella carlottae, are 

 two distinct species. Though all are labelled "10 fm. Queen Char- 

 lotte IsL," it is probable that a pair are from New Zealand, and a 

 pair from Bass Straits. The Museum label admits the identity of 

 T. carlottae with T. vittata Hutton. Under the circumstances, this 

 synonymy should, I think, stand, but it should be appreciated that 

 while Watson gave a second name to the New Zealand shell, he gave 

 none to the Bass Straits one. To express it otherwise, this datum 

 does not justify the admission of T. vittata Hutton to the Aus- 

 tralian list by Pritchard and G-atliff.* 



*Pritchard & Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xviii., 1906, p. 54. 



