304 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



Cancellaria australis Sowerby. 



Cancellaria australis Sowerby, Conch. Illust., 1832, fig. 23. 



C. undulata Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1848, p. 136 ; Id,, Sower- 

 by, Thes. Conch., 1849, PL 92, fig. 12, PL 95, fig. 79. 



The types of Cancellaria described by Sowerby are not available 

 at South Kensington. From that collection, it appears that C. 

 undulata is identical with C. australis; that Tryon erred* in unit- 

 ing a Japanese species, C. spengleriana Deshayes, to C. undulata; 

 and that C. granosa Sowerby, from Tasmania, is a geographical 

 race separable varietally, if not specifically, by the grains on the 

 ribs. 



Terebra brevicula Deshayes. 



Terebra brevicula Deshayes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, p. 296; Id,, 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon., xii., 1860, PI. xxii., fig. 119. 



In the British Museum, I found a shell marked type, labelled, 

 "T. brevicula, Desh., P.Z.S., 1859, p.296, Van Diemen's Land," and 

 another, the original of Reeve's figure, and again another. These 

 are in poor condition, and appear to have been bathed in acid. 

 What is left of them answers fa'irly to half -grown shells of T. albo- 

 cincta Carpenter, from California. 



This name, which has long been a nuisance to Australian con- 

 chologists, can now be definitely rejected from our catalogues. 



Terebra buccinulum Deshayes. 



Terebra buccinulum Deshayes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1859, p. 282; 

 Id., Reeve, Conch. Icon., xii., 1860, PI. xx., fig. 101. 



This species was described from "East Australia," but it appar- 

 ently does not occur here. In the British Museum, under the genus 

 Leiodomus of Swainson, are two specimens marked "type Bullia 

 turrita Gray, Zool. Beechey's Voy., Reeve Conch. Icon. sp. 16." 

 Except in colour, these are identical with one marked "type, Tere- 

 bra buccinulum Deshayes, East coast of Australia,, Journ. de 

 Conch., 1857, vol. vi., f. 9." 



* Tryon, Man. Conch., vii. 1885, p. 67. 



