226 AUSTRALIAN AND POLYNESIAN LAND AND MARINE M0LLUSCA, 



3. Cancellaria UNDULATA. 



Cancellaria undulata, Sowerby, Conch. Illust., No. 15., pi. 10, 

 fig. 16 only. Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 136-7, 1848; Thes. Conch., 

 vol. ii., p. 443-4, pi. 92, fig. 12; pi. 95, fig. 79. Reeve Conch. 

 Icon., vol. x., pi. 3, sp. 9, 1856 ; Crosse, Journal de Conch., third 

 series, vol. ix., No. 43, p. 235, 1861 ; Angas Proc. Zool., Soc, p. 

 171, 1865. Cancellaria granosa, Angas. Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 208, 

 1867. Cancellaria undulata, Ten. -Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 

 p. 7, 1877. 



Hob. — Middle Harbour, Sow and Pigs Reef, Port Jackson, 

 Broken Bay, Port Stephens, Newcastle, Bellinger River, and all 

 beaches between that river and the Clarence River Heads [Brazier). 



There has been a great deal of confusion caused by one 

 author and another in reference to the specific name and 

 true locality of this species ; first when it was figured in the 

 Conchological Illustrations by Mr. Sowerby, he had two species 

 before him and he named them as one, under the name of 

 granosa in the Proceedings Zool. Society, 1848 ; he then points 

 out that undulata was originally included with granosa in the 

 Thesaurus ; he also distinctly says " we separate the shell 

 represented in the Conchological Illustrations, figure 16, as 

 undidata, from Van Dieman's Land." Reeve, on the authority of 

 Cuming gives Tasmania ; the Rev. Tenison- Woods says the species 

 is not known to the Tasmanian naturalists. Mr. Angas, in 

 Molluscan Fauna of South Australia, Proc Zool. Soc, 1865, 

 quotes undidata from there, and says that it is very closely allied 

 to C. granosa, So far Mr. Angas is wrong ; undidata is confined 

 to the coast of New South Wales, or in other terms, the east coast 

 of Australia ; the granosa is confined to the south-east and south 

 coast of Australia. Mr. Angas, in the Proc. Zoological Soc, 1867, 

 gets into still greater confusion when he persists in calling the 

 C. undulata, C. granosa, and quotes Sowerby 's Conch. 111., figs. 

 16 and 17, in which fig. 17 is really C. granosa. 



It was only recently, when going through the Cancellariidse in 

 the Hargraves Collection in the Museum, that I was astonished to 



