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Fig. 4. 



Fll,(1|>i;il,l,lA IK'ICAKINAI'A 'I'l'iii^n,, \\',huJ.<. 



(Figure 4.) 



DriUia tricariuiitit Tenison Woods, Pi-oc. fjiim. Soc. N.S.W., ii., 1878, 

 p. 265. 1<1. Hedley, Rec. Austr. Mus., iv., 1901, p. 23, 

 fig. o. /'/. Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1903, 

 p. 389, fig. 10-1. /(/. Vereo, Trans. Koy. Soc. S.A., 

 xxxiii., 1909, p. 305. Id. Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. Vict., .xxiii., 1910, p. S9. J.l Mav, Proc. 

 I{oy. Soc. Tasm., 1910 (1911), p. 308. 



Hdh. N.S.Wales: — 45 fathoms, Sydney Heads (type); 

 24 fatlioms. Port Stephens ; 50 fathoms, Cape Three Points ; 

 50 fatlioms. Botany Heads; 75 fathoms, Port Kenibla 

 ("Thetis"). Victoria: — Wilson's Promontory ("Kudenv- 

 our"). Tasmania: — 80 fathoms, Schouten Island (May). 

 South Australia: — 300 fatlmnis, Cape Jaffa; 150 fathoms, 

 Beacliport (Verco). 



COLl'MI'.AHICM vnii Mdyfeiis. 



Colnmhariinii von Martens, Conchol. Mittheil., ii., 1881, p. 105 ; tvpe 

 PlenrotdiiKi spiniciiicta von Maitens. 



The author of the genus has given the following epitome of its 

 characters''': "Notch of tlie outer lip very faint, canal very distinct, as 

 long as 01' longer than tlie rest of the shell, whorls spinously keeled, 

 nucleus globular. . . . The radula exhibits two blunt dagger-shaped teetli, 

 not unlike tliose of hefriuirin.'''' 



Not appreciating the significance of the radula, Cossmann has aigued-" 

 for the transference of the grou[) to Ftts/if^. 



From the Australian Tertiary, Professor R. Tate has described tlie 

 following: — ('. ((caiitlnistejilip^, cnrlileat n m, crnspecldfnui, <Jirti/ottf, folinrt'inii, 

 •<e/(f/cMS/^///, and ^pi iiiferniK . 



CoLUMHARIUM DISTRPHANOTIS Mel fill. 



Cohniihuri n III ili.-itrpltniiotis Melvill, Journ. of Conch., vi., 1891, p. 405, 

 pi. ii., fig. 4. 



Hah. Queensland: — 17 fatlioms, Tori'es Strait (type, Manchester 

 Museum). 



COLU.MI'.AKIU.M l'A(iOD0n>KS WatxOll. 



Fiisiu-i paipnldide.s Watson, Joui'ii. Linn. Soc. Zool., xvi , 1881, p. 383. LI. 



Watson, Challenger Rep. Zool., xv., 1886, p. 197, pi. xiv., tig. 3. 

 CiihiiiiJinriiiiii pagodniJes Hedley, Rec. Aust. Mus., vi., 1906, pp. 213, 285. 



Hah. N.S.Wales : — 410 fathoms, off Sydney (type, "Challenger") ; 

 250 fathoms, off Sydney ; 80 fathoms, Narrabeen ; 100 "fathoms, Wollonffono- 

 (self). ■ ' ^ " 



'i' von Martens— Zool. Record, 1881, p. 44, Moll. 

 -" Cossmann — Essais Pal. Comp., li., 1896, p. (ii. 



