234 RECORDS OF TUE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Messrs. Pritchard and Gatlilf, having overlooked Petterd's name when 

 they re-described his species, afterwards proposed to reject it on the 

 ground of preoccupation by Jeffreys. But the iwriien nudiivi used by 

 Jeffreys 27 was Fastis albas, upon which Petterd's Colambella alba does not 

 infringe. 



Huh. Tasmania : — Blacknians Bay (type, Petterd); King island (May). 

 Victoria: — Flinders (Gatliff). South Australia: — 60 fathoms, St. Vincent 

 Gulf; 90 fathoms. Cape Borda ; 200 fathoms, Beachport ; St. Francis 

 Island (Verco). 



MlTRITHAKA AXGUSTA Vercu. 



Mitromorpha angusta Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 329, 

 pi. xxvii., figs. 4, 5. 



Hub. South Australia : — 110 fathoms, Beachport (type); 55 fathoms, 

 Cape Borda (Verco). 



MiTRITHARA AXICOSTATA VercO. 



Mitromorpha. axicostata Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 330, 

 pi. xxviii., fig. 4. 



Hub. South Austi'alia : — 104 fathoms, Neptune Island (type) ; 110 

 fathoms, Beachport; 130 fathoms. Cape Jaffa (Verco). 



MrfRlTHARA AXISCALPTA VerrO. 



Mitrithara alba var. axiscalpta Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, 

 p. 329. 



Hab. South Austi'alia : — St. Vincent Gulf ; 55 fathoms. Cape Borda ; 

 110 fathoms, Beachport (Verco). 



MlTKIlllAKA t'OLUMNARIA sp. ittiv. 



(Plate xliii., fig. 23.) 



Shell rather large and thin, regularly fusiform. Colour pale yellow- 

 orange, with a zone of alternate bi'own and buff beneath the sutuie. 

 Whorls eight, of which three are included in the protoconch. Suture 

 impressed. Sculpture : — Radials'entirely absent ; spirals amount to thirty- 

 two on the last whorl and to ten on the penultimate ; the summit of the 

 whorl is crowned by a strong cord followed by a corresponding sulcus, 

 thence the spirals diminish to the periphery, where they are small and 

 crowded, with another change the base and snout are occupied by eight 

 broad and widelj^ spaced spirals. Lip incomplete in the specimen 

 examined ; the columella has two low folds. Length 13 mm., breadth 

 5 mm. 



This species stands near to M. alba, than which }[. cul munariti is of 

 more slender proportions, thinnei', longer, and with more numerous, finer 

 spirals. 



Hab. Tasmania: — 100 fathoms. Cape Pillar (type, W. L. May and 

 self). 



2' Jeffreys— Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., viii., 184J, p. 1(35. 



