94 SYNONOMY OF NAMES OF AUSTRALIAN MARINE SHELLS. 



This species was described by Dr. Gray in 1825 and Mr. W. 

 Wood finding it in the British Museum in 1828 figures it in the 

 Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus and calls it Bulla lineata, 

 Br. Mus., found on the tablets in the British Museum. It should 

 be removed from the Family Bullidje and placed in the Family 

 Tornatellidse. All the specimens that I have found, had 

 when extracting the animal a small, horny, linear, trans 

 verse operculum like the Tornatellidse. Mr. Angas in 1867 

 remai'ks on this species : — " No one can fail to detect this pretty 

 species, banded with two lines of rose-colour, and painted with 

 wavy longitudinal stripes of the same hue. It forms a beaixtiful 

 object in the watei', when crawling about on the sandy bottoms of 

 the rock pools left by the receding tide, the expanded membranceous 

 foot of the animal being bordered with azure-blue. On examination 

 I found it had a small, horny, linear, transverse operculum like the 

 Actwonidte, and ougth therefore probably to be included in that 

 family." 



