318 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



Adams, by Pritchard and Gatliff.* The type of N. rufocincta A. 

 Adams, in the British Museum, is thrice as long, and more coarsely 

 sculptured than A. compacta, and the locality given for it is Hon- 

 duras. Brazier has already pointed out that Angas made a mistake 

 in recording N. rufocincta from Sydney. f Angas was followed by 

 Tenison-Woods, who mentioned N. rufocincta from Bass Straits! 

 Dr. Shirley has ascribed compacta to Bowen, Queensland, where 

 it is unlikely to occur.§ This locality provided the same writer with 

 several fictitious records. 



I now regret that I did not obtain a drawing of the type of 

 compacta. 



Nassa reposta Gould. 



Nassa reposta Gould, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii., 1860, p. 

 323. 



I failed to find an example of this in any Museum. The species 

 has not been figured or recognised by any subsequent writer. It is 

 suggested that the name can be abandoned as that of a lost 

 character. 



Pyrene peroniana nom.mut. 



Columbella bicincta Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 89, PI. i., 

 fig. 3; Not C. bicincta Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vii., 1860, 

 p. 335, = G. planaxiformis Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, i., 1894, p. 

 153, PI. xii., fig. 1. 



In the British Museum are two, marked as types of Columbella 

 bicincta Angas. These do not support the assertion by Tryon, 

 Kobelt, and others that this Sydney shell should be called C. eximia 

 Reeve. This latter has been recognised by Hervier from Lifu, and 

 differs by smaller size and orange ground-colour. The two species 



* Tate and May, These Proceedings, xxvi, 1901, p.359; Pritchard and 

 Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., x., 1898, p. 280. 



f Brazier, Journ. of Conch., vi., 1889, p.66; and These Proceedings, xii., 

 1888, p. 996. 



X Tenison-Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1877, p.29. 

 § Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Q'land, xxiv., 1913, p.56. 



