4 RECORDS OF THE ALSTKALIAN MUSEUM. 



threads wliicli may or may not be broken into short lengtlis by spiral 

 stria). Mr. C. J. Gabriel also sends this form from Eddini^lon on the 

 Lodder River. 



Var. TEXTUKATUS — Sowerby writes of I'hijfa te.i'turalns that, " under a 

 lens this appeals as if impressed with a tine woven fabric." From this I 

 understand that it is distinguished from t^'pical li. feiiiiistn'Kftis by the 

 impressed spiral lines. Answering to such a description is a specimen, 

 18 mm. long and 10 mm. broad from the Wimmera River (Cox Coll.) here 

 figured (PI. i., tigs. 3-4). Similar specimens are before me from Mt. 

 Renalla (G. B. Pritchard), Stawell (T. L. Billinghurst), and Cantield (C. 

 .1. Gabriel). Smith reports it as collected by Mr. R. Ktlieridge, Jnnr., at 

 Sutton Grange. That gentleman now tells me that he obtained it in 

 1867, near Mt. Alexander, not far from Castlemaine. 



Var. PUNCTDRATUS. A form here provisionally identified as ['hi/su 

 pKiictnratiin, Sowerby, was gathered by Mr. W. Kershaw in the " Murray 

 Swamps." The sculpture has minute spaced tubercles, arranged in Avide 

 spiral lines. The effect is that of the hair scars of Chloritis. An example 

 drawn (PI. i., fig. 5-6.) is 20 mm. long and II mm. broad. 



Var. WATERHOUSEi. To this species of Clessin is now with hesitation 

 referred a buHmoid form with rounded whorls and elevate spire. The 

 specimen figured (PI. i., fig. 7-8.) is 20 mm. long and 11 mm. broad. It 

 was given to the Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods by Mr. W. Kei'shaw, who took 

 i(; in the " Murray River." A similar form is in the Cox Collection from 

 Guu-bovver and from the Wimmera River. 



Var, ARACHNOIDEUS. The types lent by the National Museum, 

 Melbourne, consist of four specimens, labelled " P//V*"tf uraclni(ii(fet(, Ten. 

 Woods. Type, Near Melbouine. 36001-5." One of these here figuied 

 (PI. ii., fig. 15.) is 13 mm. in length and 6 mm. in bieadth. It is a 

 comparatively small and slender form. Even among the type \oi there is 

 a difference in sculpture ; all have fine, dense, radial hair lines, on one no 

 spiral sculpture is perceptible, on another there are spiral lines of rather 

 distant cilia% which correspond to spiral lines on the bare shell. The 

 suture, like that of var, textKratus, is frequently edged by a pale above a 

 dark line. The shape is fairly constant. It is common and widespread in 

 Victoiia, before me are specimens from Castlemaine (T. L. Billinghurst), 

 Melbouiiiu (Major Cherry), Echuca (Cox Coll.), Willianistown (C. J. 

 Gabriel) and Overland Coi-ner (F. If. Taylor). 



BULMNUS TENUISTRIATUS, var. CONFLUENS," (•((/•. IKif. 



(Plate i., fig, 9-10.) 



Shell elliptical, large and thin, narrowly umbilicate. Spire sln)it 

 with concave outline. Last whorl lapidly increasing, compiessed at the 

 peri[)liery. Sculpture, fine and dense radial hair riblets. Length 21 mm., 

 breadth 12 mm. 



lli'h. — Fchuca (type) and Gun-bower (Cox Coll.), Lake liatton or 

 lladdah (C, J. Gabriel), 



" In rt'tertMioe to '* Echiu-a," meaning; in the native lanLrna^o " iueetin<:j of the 

 waters " of the Murniy, CiouHjuru aiul CaiJii)aspo Kivcrs. 



