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Pyrene vittata Reeve. 



Cuiumbella vittata Reeve, Conch. Icon., xi., 1859, PI. xxx., tig. 

 192. 



C. vincta Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xvii., 1893, p. 190, PI. i., 

 fig. 11; Id., Pritehard & Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict, xi., 1899, p. 

 202 j Id., May, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1902, (1903), p. 109; Id., 

 Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiv., 1910, p. 133. 



In the British Museum there is one C. vittata, perhaps type, but 

 not so marked, labelled, "Isle of Luzon, Philippines, stones low 

 water, H.C." Again, there are three shells, not types, labelled 

 "vittata Reeve, Oyster Cove, V.D.L., Joseph Milligan, Esq.' 1 The 

 Philippine habitat is repeated but not confirmed by Hidalgo. Mii- 

 ligans specimens are certainly C. vincta of Tate. A series of C. 

 roblini Tenison- Woods from Kelso, Tasmania, presented by J. H. 

 Ponsonby, seem similar. 



Pritehard and Gatliff have placed C. vincta as a synonym of C. 

 nubeculata Reeve, but the type of nubeculata, in the British 

 Museum, has a prominent tubercle at one-third the length of the 

 aperture, is less than half the length, and altogether unlike vincta. 

 Probably C. nubeculata is not an Australian species. Their error 

 has misled Dr. Verco also. 



With C. vincta, May has identified C. irrorata Reeve. But the 

 type of that, in the British Museum, is equally distinct, being twice 

 the length of C. vincta, and very sharply pointed. 



Pyrene pulla Gaskoin. 



Cuiumbella pulla Gaskoin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1851 (1852), p. 6; 

 Id., Reeve, Conch. Icon, xi., 1858, PL xix., fig. 106; Id., Angas, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 195. 



In the British Museum are five "pulla Gask., Australia, Strange, 

 M.C." This species is about half an inch long, rather elongate- 

 conical, purplish-brown with a buff snout, the latter delicately 

 and obliquely grooved. Another set of fifteen labelled "pulla 

 Gask. (?), Oyster Cove, V.D. Ld., Joseph Milligan, Esq.," are P. 

 tenebrica, by comparison with the type of that species. The latter 

 differs by being smaller, two-thirds the length of pulla; it has not 



