A RKVISIOX OK rHK AI'STKAI.IAN ilKKri)* HKI'I.KV. 289 



Shell rather iar^e and tliiii, fHsiloiiM tmreted, and conlr'acted at the 

 base. Colonr pale buff, with a. siilVixsed pale orange l)and round the base of 

 the shell. Apex wanting in the .specimen examined. Sculpture: — liibs 

 perpendicular, discontiiinou.s, absent on the base and below the suture, set 

 at about sixteen to a whorl; spirals smaller; about eleven lattice the 

 intercostal spaces, tour or tive Hner threads are crowded above the shoulder', 

 and seven beaded cords run across the snout. Aperture : — The vertical 

 and nariow mouth is protected by a massive vari.v whicli rises above the 

 suture ; edge of lip with eight small deuticules ; sinus a deep semicircular 

 notch facing a deeply-seated tubercle across the aperture ; halt" wav down 

 the columeJla is a deep-seated, fine, horizontal thread. Length 8-5 mm., 

 breadth 3"5 mm. 



J I lib. Queensland : — Li/aid Island ; 17 to 20 fathoms, Masthead 

 Island (self). 



LrBXARiHA MKiiiKi.si trfiJalr and Toiiiliii. 



(Plate xlix., fig. 96.) 



rieiinifoiiKi nti/dsii Migliels, Proc. Boston 8oc. Nat. Hist., ii., 1845, p. 2:>. 

 Id. Couturier, Jouru. de Conch., Iv., 1907, p. 130 (not of Lea, Contrib. 

 to Geol., 1833, p. 136, pi. iv., fig. 13; uor of Desliayes, Descr. Coq. 

 Foss. Paris, ii., 1834, Moll., p. 486, pi. xlvi., fig. 20). 



]}(>r.-<(itiia niifo^a Pease, Am. Journ. Conch., iv., 1868, p. 105, and vii., 1871, 

 p. 24. ' 



Clitth nrella nujusa Laugkavel, Donum Bismarck., 1871, p. 2, pi. i., fig. 5. 

 Id. G. and H. Xevill, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xliv., 1875, p. 86. 

 Id. Tryon, Man. Conch., vi., 1884, p. 297, pi. xix., fig. 57. 



M'tiiijilid rnyu.tu Melvill and Standen, Journ. of Conch., viii., 1895, p. 97. 

 Id. Melvill and Standen, Journ. Linn. Soc, xxvii., 1899, p. 156. /</. 

 Melvill and Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1901, p. 444. 



Gli/phostoiiiK nhjdsuiit Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxxii., 1907, j). 484. 

 Id. Bongeand Dautzeuberg, Journ. de Conch., Ixi., 1913 (1914), p. 188. 



LieiKtrdla nnjana Schepman, Siboga Lxped., Mongr. xlixe., 1913, {). 438. 

 Id. Melvill, Proc. Malac. Soc, xii., 1917, p. 184. 



.'' Fleurutoiud cnrculiu G. and H. Nevill, Journ. Hoy. Asiat. Soc. Cej'lon, 

 1870, p. 42. 



.^Clatharelhi suiidn Dunkei', Malak. Blatt., xviii., 1871, p. 162. 



? Cldthurelhi rinctn Dunkei', ofi. cit., p. 161, jide Garrett in Tryon. 



Liemiidid iiiiijliehi Iredale and Tonilin, Joui-n. of Conch., xv., 1917, p. 216. 



Both the identity and the nomenclatuie of this species are unsatis- 

 factory. When bestowed by Di-. Mighels tlie name of I'lenmtoiua rifgosa 

 was doubly invalid. His type was lost by fire (Pease, 1868). The only 

 figure that has been published (Laugkavel, 1871) was not taken from that 



