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G. 5483. An example having several subsidiary columellar 

 plications ; from Muddy Creek. Purchased. 



G. 9130. A specimen possessing a very much elevated spire ; 

 from Murray river, near Adelaide. Fre&enteA hy William Evans, Esq. 



G. 9354. A series showing stages of growth ; from Muddy 

 Creek. Purchased. 



Volutilithes anticingulatus, M'Coy (sp.). 



1874. Toluta enticing ulata, M'Coy, Prod. Pal. Vict. dec. i. p. 24, pi. vi. 



figs. 2-4. 

 1878. Valuta anticingtclata, R. Etheridge, jun., Cat. Aust. Foss. p. 170. 



1888. Toluta antiscalaris, Johnston, Geol. Tasmania, pi. xxs. figs. 5, 5S. 



1889. Valuta untieing ulata, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soe. South Aust. vol. xi. 



p. 133. 

 1895. Valuta anticingulata, Tate and Dennant, id. vol. xix. pt. 1, p. 111. 



This differs from V. antiscalaris in not being so spinose, its spire 

 is moi-e elevated, and the comparatively obscure longitudinal ribs 

 on the body- whorl are furnished with obtuse tuberculations forming 

 a rough angulation on the shoulder, though the ribs are more 

 pronounced in young specimens. The aperture is wider, and the 

 outer margin not so thick as in the other Australian species 

 alluded to ; columellar plications generally fewer in number. 



Dimensions. — Length 53 mm. ; breadth 26 mm. ; length of 

 aperture 37 mm. 



Form, and Loc. — Eocene : Table Cape, Tasmania. 



83997. A specimen having only three columellar plications. 



Purchased. 

 G. 9358. Two examples. Purchased. 



Genus LYRIA, Gray. 



[Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. 141.] 



Shell ovate ; protoconch small, from one and a half to two 

 elevated, canaliculate turns ; whorls costate ; aperture narrow, 

 anterior channel broad; columella with several plications, two in 

 front being much compressed and very large, the others decreasing 

 in size antero-posteriorly ; outer margin thickened. 



