326 Proceedings of the Royai Society of. Victoria. 



Columbella woodsi, nom. mut. 



1878. Fusus funiculatus, T. Woods (non Reeve and 



others). P.L.S. N.S.W., p. 225, pi. 20, f. 1. 

 1888. Columbella funiculata, Tate. T.R.S. S.A., vol. x., 



Gast., pt. i., p. 132 (p. 42 in reprint). 

 1892. Columbella funiculata, Pritchard. Cat. Tert. Foss. 

 Austr. Report S.A. School of Mines, p. 199 

 (p. 31 in reprint). 

 1903. Columbella funiculata, Dennant and Kitson. Cat. 

 Cain. Foss. Aust., Rec. Geo. Surv. Vict., vol. 

 i., pt. 2, p. 105. 

 Locality. — Clays of Orphanage Hill, Fyansford, Griffin's sec- 

 tion, Moorabonl Valley, and Curlewis near Geelong; clays 

 and limestones of the Old Cement Works. Balcombe's Bay, 

 Mornington, and Grice's Creek ; Newport shaft ; lower beds 

 of Muddy Creek, near Hamilton. Western Victoria ; Fishing 

 Poitnt, Aire River ; Native Hut Creek and Shelford, near In- 

 verleigh ; clays of the coastal section, Gellibrand River. — Bal- 

 combian — Eocene. 



Observations. — In the course of studying some of the species 

 of this genus, I find that Columbella funiculata, T. Woods, 

 originally described in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 

 of New South Wales, 1878, p. 225, pi. 20, f. 1, as Fusus funi- 

 culatus requires renaming on account of the preoccupation of 

 this name by Reeve in 1846 and again by M. Souverbie in 1865. 

 This species has also appeared in several locality lists of 

 fossils under the name of Columbella funiculatus, T. Woods, 

 published both in Sovith Australia and in Victoria. 



Pleurotoma selwyni, sp. nov. (PI. XIX., Fig. 1). 



Description. — Shell tumidly fusiform or biconic, of medium 

 size and build, with a comparatively broad body-whorl rapidly 

 tapering to a very acute spire, with an aperture only slightly 

 less than half the length of the shell, and a well-marked sin as 

 on the keel. Embryo small, smootli, with an obtuse nucleus 

 composed of about two whorls gradually merging into the spire- 

 whorls. Spire-whorls eight, with a somewhat irregular and 

 ascending overlap, giving rise to a canaliculate suture, Whorls 



