OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 81 



7. VoLUTA Bednalli, new sp., pi. 8, fig. 3. 



Shell ovately fusiform, longitudinally distinctly striated, white, 

 with four reddish brown transverse bands, the upper just beneath 

 the suture, one above being much finer ; spire rather elevated, 

 apex obtuse ; ornamented with rather broad waved longitudinal 

 reddish brown lines breaking off" in the centre in the form of 

 blotches ; whorls 6, convex, the last forming nearly the whole of 

 the shell, aperture narrow, white within ; columella straight, 

 covered with a thin callus, furnished with four plaits, the two 

 upper being nearly transverse, the lower two nearly oblique. 



Length 39, diam. 15 lines. 



Hai. — Port Darwin, north coast of Australia. (Mr. William 

 Tompson BednalV). 



Only a single specimen of this fine species has been obtained, 

 its peculiar regular longitudinal thread-like strias, and transverse 

 and longitudinally waved reddish brown bands breaking off into 

 blotches in the centre on the dorsal surface, mark a species that 

 will never get confused with such species as piperita, Macgillivrayi 

 Buckeri, Kingi, Sclateri, Angasi, undulata, Turneri, volva, reticulata, 

 Reevei, Lorcisi, and Ellioti. 



I take great pleasure in naming this after its owner, Mr, W, 

 Tompson Bednall, a zealous collector of shells from North and 

 South Australia. 



On Bulimus Dufresnii. 



By the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., Hon. Cor. 



Mem. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., &c., &c. 



Plate VII. 



The process of describing and cataloguing various representa- 

 tives of our Australian fauna has proceeded so far that I think 

 the time has come when we can commence to call attention to 

 the many variations to which species are subject, probably also, 

 to reduce considerably the number of species and even genera. 

 No one can question that a very great number of our species will 

 have to be reduced as observations are extended ; and in no 

 department will this be more necessary than in that of the land 



