274 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 

 Genus Pisania, Bivona, 1832. 



PiSANIA RETICULATA, A. Adams. 



1854. Pisania reticulata, A. Adams. P.Z.S. Lond., p. 



138. 

 1881. Pisania reticulata, Tryon. Man. Conch., vol. iii., 

 p. U7, pi. 71, f. 201. 

 Hab. — Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Airey's Inlet, Warr- 

 nainbool. 



Genus Cantharus (Bolten, 1798), Miirch, 1852. 



Cantharus australis. Pease. 



1872. Cantharus australis. Pease. Amer. Jour. Conch., 



vol. vii., p. 21. 

 1881. Cantharus australis, Tryon. Man. Conch., vol. iii., 

 p. 160, pi. 73, f. 269. 

 Cantharus assiniilis, Angas. 

 Hab.— Port Fairy (Rev. W. T. Whan). 



Genus Cominella, Gray, 18'47. 



CoMiNELLA COSTATA, Quoy and Gaimard. 



1833. Buccinuin costatum, Quoy and Gaimard. Astro- 

 labe, vol. ii, p. 417, pi. 30, f. 17-20. 

 1846. Buccinum eburneum. Reeve. Conch. Icon., pi. 12, 



f. 93. 

 1846. Buccinum costatum, Reeve. Conch. Icon., j)!. 4, 



f. 20. 

 1864. Buccinum angasi, Crosse. Jour. d. Conch., p. 275, 



pi. 11, f. 5. 

 1881. Cominella costata, Tryon. Man. Conch., vol. iii., 

 p. 205, pi. 81, f. 430 and 434. 

 Hab. — A very common shell in most of the rock-pools of our 

 coast. 



Obs. — It is a point worthy of further investigation whether 

 this shell can really l)e accepted as a good species. It is very 

 closely related to the extremely common and variable form, 

 C. lineolata, Lamarck, so much so that many of the gaps seem to 



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