214 RECORDS OF THK APSTKALIAX MFSEDM. 



I liave to tliank the Trastees of the Macleay Museum, University of 

 Sydney, for tlie loan of the Tun-ids taken by the Clievert Expedition, and 

 the Council of the Linnean Society of New South Wales for permission to 

 reprint some text figures. 



Famllti TUHRID^. 



Snh-fam tJ ij T URRix J?. 



TuRRis Midler. 



Turris Miiller, Delic. Nat. Selecias, i., 1766, p. 129, type Mure.v babi/hmins 

 Linne. LI Bolten, Mus. Bolt. 1798, p. 123. 2(7. Dall Proc." U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., liv., 1918, p. 332. 



Flenrotoma Lamai'ck, Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, 1799, p. 73. 



Lophiofomii Casey, Trans. Acad. Soi. St. Louis, xiv., 1904, p. 130. 



Turris is a strictly tropical genus. The shell is large, with a tall 

 slender spire ; outer lip sharp, without fold or thickening ; the notch is a 

 deep slit with parallel sides following a walled-in fasciole ; within the 

 body whorl are sharp j'aised revolving threads (PI. xlii., fig. 1), a feature 

 shared by related genei'a. Protoconch of two smooth rounded whorls 

 (PI. xlii., fig. 3). Operculum uiiguicnlate, with apical iiucleus. The animal 

 has been figured by Quoy and Gaimard,i and by Gould. ^ 



The species catalogued by Brazier'^ as Flenrotoma hrevicaudata is not 

 tliat, but is described in this paper as Tnrridrnpn deceptri.r. What the 

 same writer considered to be Flenrotoma punctata {op. cit., p. 151) is here 

 recorded as Gemmida graeffei; and what Brazier catalogued as F. jnbatu 

 &i)d F. arniillata are here included nitdev Tnrri dm pa aciitigemmata Smith. 



From the Australian Tertiary the following fossils have been desci'ibed 

 by Harris — Tnrris opfata, .'^idehrot^a, !<eptet)dlrata, .-inhconcava, awd trilirata. 



TtJKRIS i;Al;vi,ti\iA Linne. 

 (PI. xlii., fig. 1.) 



Mnre.r hahijhinia Linne, Syst. Nat., x., 1758, p. 753. ]d. Knorr, 

 Conchlien, iv., 1789, p. 403, pi. xiii., fig. 2. /(/. Hanlev, Ips. 

 Linn. Conch., 1855, p. 299. 



Flenrotoma hahijlonia Weinkauff, Conch. Cab., 1875, p. 10, pi. i., figs. 4, 5. 

 Id. Tapparone Canefri, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fiance, ix., 1878, p. 246. LI. 

 Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxiii., 1911, p. 101. LI. 

 Schepman, Siboga Kxped. Mon., xlixe., 1913, p. 398. Id. Bouge and 

 Dautzenbeig, Journ. de Conch., xli., 1914, p. 125. 



Bnccivuni, coelatum Martyn, Univ. Conch., ii., 1789, ])l. xciv. 

 Flenrotoma vevnsta Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1843, pi. ix., fig. 79. 

 Hah. Queensland: — Cairns (Shii'ley). 



1 Quoy and Gaimard— Astrolabe Zoologie, PI. xxxv., fig. 4. 



2 Gould— Moll. U. S. Explor. Expi-d.. PI. xviii.. t;>r. .'Ul. 



3 Brazier — Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1871), p. 152. 



