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A REVIEW OF VOLUTIDAE 



ericusa fulietrum tricincta Verco: Comb- 

 ing the Southern Seas, p. 16, pi. 1, 

 fig. 7, 1935. 



Alt. 



Hab. Great Australian Bight ( Verco). 



Easily separated by the comparative- 

 ly uniform ground color, together with 

 three broad bands of chocolate brown upon 

 the body whorl and one band upon the whorls 

 of the spire. On the first post-nuclear 

 whorl the band Is replaced with spots. The 

 subsutural flames may unite to form a third 

 spiral band. 



Alclthoe fulgetrum unlclncta (Verco) 

 1912 

 (Unflgured) 



Scaphella fulgetrum unicincta Verco, Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. South Australia, vol. 36, 

 p. 22h, pi. 11, fig., 1912. 



Ericusa fill ietrum unicincta Verco: Comb- 

 ing the Southern Seas, p. 16, pi. 1, 

 fig. 8, 1935. 



Alt. 



Hab. 



Great Australian Bight (Verco). 



Verco 's figure of this subspecies 

 Illustrates a greenish shell with one an- 

 terior dark band upon the body whorl but 

 In some specimens there Is an additional 

 band upon thQ spire. 



Alclthoe fuslformls (Swalnson) 

 (Plate 20, Figure 137) 



Valuta fusi formls Swalnson, append, to Bllgh 

 Cat., (teste of Reeve) not of Klener. 

 Reeve: Conch. Icon., pi. 3, fig. 6, 

 1849. Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. 1, 

 p. 208, pi. 54, fig. 100. Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. 4, p. 95, pi. 38, fig. 103 



Valuta souerbyi (Pars) Klener. 



Alt. 150-175 mm. 



Hab. Australia and' Tasmania. 



Nucleus comparatively small, one 

 and one-half whorls, apex tilted, major 



whorl dome-shaped; post-nuclear whorls 

 five; suture moderately Impressed; sculpture 

 consisting of fine spiral striae and Irreg- 

 ular longitudinal growth lines; ground • 

 color dark cream, frequently overlaid with 

 Iron stains; ornamented with brown zig-zag 

 lines; outer lip thickened and extended 

 posteriorly upon spire; color pattern ex- 

 tending more or less upon parietal wall 

 but covered with callus; three primary an- 

 terior plaits and one secondary posterior 

 plait on columella. 



Alclthoe papulosa papulosa (Swalnson) 

 (Plate 16, Figure 109-110) 



Valuta papi I losa Swalnson, app. to Bllgh 

 Cat. Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. 1, 

 p. 207, plate 48, fig. 30. Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. 4, p. 96, plate 28, fig. 

 106, 1882. 



Valuta papillaris Reeve, Conch. Icon., 

 plate 4, fig. 10, 1849. 



Alt. 100-125 rm. 



Hab. Encounter Bay, and Kangaroo Island, 

 Australia (100 fathoms); 25 miles off 

 coast of New South Wales In I9OO fms. 

 (Brazier); off north coast of Tasmania 

 (Cox); Fiji Islands (Sowerby). 



Nucleus of two whorls; post-nuclear 

 whorls, three, the last large and oval; 

 surface smooth, reticulated with very fine, 

 fulvous lines, and with interrupted, trans- 

 verse chestnut-yellow bands; spire short; 

 outer lip with margin thickened; inner lip 

 thick, spread; columella with three to five 

 plaits. 



Alclthoe papulosa kenyonlana 

 (Brazier) I907 

 (Unflgured) 



Valuta papi I losa kenyaniana Brazier, Proc. 

 Malac. Soc, London, vol. 7, p. 6, I907. 

 Verco, Combing the Southern Seas, p. I6, 

 pi. 1, figs. 14-17, 1935. 



Alt. 



Hab. Great Australian Bight (Verco), 



This subspecies is solid, ponderous. 



