Fossil VoUiU's. 107 



U. N'l.UTA I.IKATA. Jullll.Ston. (1*1. \ X.. Figs. 7, S). 



I.STI). r. linitd. .I(.liiist«Mi. Pror. I»uy. Soc. Tas.. p. :{?. 

 1888. r. Iir<it(i. .Ii)luist(,n. (n'olcoy ,,f Tasmania, pi. x.\x.. 



f. in. 



{V. (ill port I. .I(.liiisr..ii. noil 1880). 



Obs. — Mr. Johnston's (k'siiiiition of this sjioeios is: — "Shell 

 ovately fusifoi-m. shining-, of 7 whorls, inrliulinii- the sniootli pnlliis 

 ■of 1-^ turns; wlioils .scart'ely convex, and ornaincnred with tine. 

 slightly emved lirae. i-egular and distinri ahovc. hut heeoiniuL;- 

 iiidistinet and irrei^iilai- on hudy wlioil : the inicrspaees are marked 

 Avith very tine lonj^itudinal lines of ^^rowth; s)iirc witli a slitiiitly 

 eonvex oiitliue, and i'uiiuing an angle of ahour ."(i .K-g. ; apei-ture 

 somewhat elliptical, longer than spire; lip sinipU'. emarginate 

 above; eoluniella curved, with four e(|ui-disrant 'distinct ol)li(pie 

 plait.s ; length of shell 48 mil., breadth 21 mih. length of apertui-e 

 •^(1 mil., proportional length of ])ody whoil GS-lOdths. of pt-niilT 

 whorl IG-lOOths."' 



The type of this species was ol)tained fioni Table Cape, liut 

 it is not in tjje Hol)ait Museum. |.robalily in Mr. Johnston's 

 private collection. Professor Tate, in Part 11. of " The Gastro- 

 pods of tlie Older Teitiarv of Austi-alia." i-p. 1:')0. 1:^1. when deal- 

 ing with this species mentions tliat he liad not seen autlientic 

 specimens, yet he gives a figure and deso'iption of a ^Vestel•n Vic- 

 torian shell, and calls it V. lirnfa. Johnston. Compaiing Tate's 

 ■description with Johnston's, it is at once seen that tliey do not 

 agree, hence further confusion, and an erroneous lecord foi- the 

 Muddy Creek beds. Professor Tate ajjpears to have entertained 

 some doubt about his treatment of tliis species, for he proceeds to 

 very biiefly desci-il)e a close ally as differing by its shorter s]'ire, 

 niuro ventricose body whoid. and stronu'er I'ibs. and names it V. 

 costellifera. This name will now eml)i-ace the shell figured and 

 <lescribed by Tate as V . lirata. It is hard to understand liow this 

 mistake came about, especially as .Mr. Jolinston noted that his 

 shell approached closely to V. MciJoyi, while tlie shells befoic P)o- 

 fessor Tate were of an entirely different type. V . linifa. Johnston 

 (non Tate)), is a good species of the T . maccoi/i ty\n-. It is. how- 

 •evei-. a much more robust shell, thickei- and more solid, commonly 

 with a more obtuse apex, a more convex shell, with lirae on the spire 

 whorls. There can be little doubt that the figure given by Mr. John- 

 ston in his Geology of Tasmania. ]>laie xxx.. figuie in. ii'piesents 

 this .si^ecies, although referred to ..n the explanation ,.f the plate 



