118 TOLTJTA. 



tubercles are less prominent, in adult specimens often reduced 

 to obscure nodulations ; spiral lineations especially noticeable near 

 the suture ; columella with tour oblique, thin plications. 



Dimensions. — Length 44-5 mm. ; breadth 14 mm. ; length of 

 apt'rture 22 mm. 



Fortu. and Loc. — Eocene : Muddy Creek, Victoria. 



G. 9348. Two examples of the adult. Purchased. 



Voluta, sp. indet. 



The following specimens of Volutid^, for the most part in the 

 state of casts, are indeterminable, and cannot be assigned to 

 systematic positions in the family without considerable doubt, 

 namely : — 



From South Australia — 



G. 9523, G. 9524, and G. 9525. Casts of Scaphelloid forms; 

 from the Tertiary of Nullarbor Plains. H. Y. L. Brown Coll. 



48803. Four casts, one of which is large and elongate, and 

 has two prominent plications on the columella ; it is probably 

 referable to Scaphella. From the Eiver Murray. 



Presented hj Commodore Goodenough, R.N. 



G. 9528. Cast of a smooth species. — G. 9529. An elongate 

 form, the internal cast showing four columellar plications and 

 distant obtuse tubercles on the periphery of the body-whorl, allied 

 to Volutiltthes antic ingulatm. — G. 9530. Cast of Scaphella, aff. 

 S. maccoiji. — G. 9682. Cast of an elongate Scaphella (?). — All 

 from the Eocene of the River Murray, near Adelaide. 



Transferred from tlie Museum of Practical Geology. 



From Victoria — 



G. 4786 and G. 4787. Casts of four volutoid shells ; from the 

 Tertiary of Bairnsdale, Gippsland. 



Presented hy the Pev. J. S. IT. Royce. 



From Tasmania — 



70403. Mutilated cast of volutoid shell, aff. V. stephensi, 

 Johnston ; from the Eocene of Brown's river. Purchased. 



