322 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



As C. plicaria, Brazier recorded from Fitzroy Island, a species 

 not previously noted as Australian. Smith and Pace state that C. 

 plicaria is merely a variety of jaspidea. I now suggest that the 

 latter is a synonym of the long-lost C. acleonta Duclos. If von 

 Martens was correct in referring the related C. marquesa Gas- 

 kain to Daphnella* then the present species will probably accom- 

 pany it. I have collected C. acleonta on Murray and Palm Islands, 

 and have seen it from Bungaree Norah, N.S.Wales. 



Pyrene punctata Bruguiere. 



Buccinum punctatum Bruguiere, Ency. Meth. Vers, i., 1789, p. 

 281, PI. 374, figs. 4, a, b. 



Voluta discors Gmelin, Syst. Nat. xiii., 1791, p. 3455, for Mar- 

 tini iv., PL 150, fig. 1405. 



Pyrene rhombiferum Bolten, Mus. Bolt., 1798, p. 134, for Mar- 

 tini, ii., PL 44, fig. 465. 



Columbella semipunctata Lamarck, Anim. s. vert, vii., 1822, p. 

 294; Id., Brazier, Journ. of Conch., ii., 1879, p. 188. 



Columbella discors Kobelt, Conch. Cab. iii., 1897, p. 18, PL ii., 

 figs. 17, 18; Id., Dautzenberg, Journ. de Conch, lviii., 1910, p. 27. 



Pyrene discors Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Q'sland, xxiii., 1911, 

 p. 101. 



Under the name of Columbella semipunctata, this was first 

 reported as Australian by Brazier, who found it on Fitzroy Island. 

 Shirley reported it from Bowen. I have found it on Mornington 

 Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, and have seen it from Port Essington, 

 Northern Territory. Following the suggestion of Deshayes, 

 museums and monographs have generally but erroneously pre- 

 ferred the name of Gmelin to that of Bruguiere. This species is 

 the type of the genus Pyrene, which can be maintained apart from 

 Columbella. The latter has, for its type, the common West Indian 

 C. mercatoria Linne, which Dr. Shirley pretends to occur at Bowen, 

 Queensland. 



Von Marteus, Fauna Mauritius, 1880, p.228. 



