324 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, xi., 



the pale snouj: of pulla, but has faint longitudinal stripes. This 

 species has not, I think, been recorded for Tasmania. 



But C. pulla is nothing like Columbella nux Reeve, with which 

 Try on, Pritchard and Gatliff, have associated it. I saw the type of 

 C. nux, which may be described as a worn and monochrome speci- 

 men of C. infumata Crosse. On the other hand, C. badia Ten.- 

 Woods seems to be a variety of C. pulla, as it was considered by 

 those authors. 



iEsoPUS australis Angas. 



Truncaria australis Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 172, PI. 

 xxvi., fig. 5. 



According to the arrangement adopted in the British Museum, 

 Truncaria australis Angas, is transferred to the genus ^Esojms. 

 In this change it is accompanied by Columbella plurisulcata Reeve. 

 What appears to be a large form of AS. australis, from Singapore, 

 has been sent to me by Mr. H. B. Preston. Dr. Dall has indicated 

 that the genus Truncaria should be restricted to the type-species, T. 

 filosa Ad. & Reeve,* and another described by himself. 



.ZEsopus cumingi Reeve. 



Columbella cumingi Reeve, Conch. Icon, xi., 1859, PI. xxv., fig. 

 156 ; Id., von Martens, Fauna Mauritius, 1880, p. 218, PI. xx., fig. 

 11. 



Specimens from Caloundra, Queensland, were compared with 

 the types of Reeve's species from the Philippine Islands. The Aus- 

 tralian shells are half the length of the types. In the Philippine 

 specimens, the filleted bands of brown and orange are more distinct 

 than in the Australian examples. The sculpture and other details 

 correspond, and the two are, I think, specifically identical. As a 

 local race, the Caloundra form may be distinguished as var. queens- 

 landica, var.n. 



Zafra A. Adams. 



Zafra A. Adams, Ann. Nat. Hist., (3), iv., 1860, p. 331. Type 

 Z. mitriformis, Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 209. Not Zafra 

 H. Adams, Proc. Zool., 1872, p. 14. 



* Dall, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xliii., 1908, p.304. 



