352 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



PSEUDODAPHXELLA RUFOZONATA AligilS. 



(Plate Ivi., fig. 190.) 



Clathurella rufozonata Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 38, pi. v., fig. 13. 

 Id. op. cit., 1880, p. 415. Id. Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 

 1909, p. 311. 



In tlie British Museum are six shells from Port Jackson, presented . 

 by G. F. Angas, and marked as the types of this species. The colour 

 markings are irregularly disposed, or may be absent. 



By G. B. Sowerby ^^" this species was united to P. titicta Reeve, and 

 to P. alhifunicidata Reeve, an arrangement copied by Pritchard and 

 Gratliff.ios But P. ri(fozo)i.(ita is only two-thirds the height of tiiicta, is of 

 a more slender build, and lacks tlie peculiar excavate base of that tropical 

 species. The latter feature is shown in Reeve's figure, and is mentioned 

 by Hervieri09 as the "depression circulaire autour de son canal basal." 

 The records by Melvilland Standen^io and by Bouge and Dautzenberg^ 

 of rufozonata, from the Loyalty Islands, are doubtless due to the confusion 

 between this and P. tincta. P. rufozonata is indeed more nearly related to 

 albifunicnlata Reeve, but is smaller, more fusiform, and has the radials 

 more prominent owing to the spirals being slighter. A more distant 

 relation is P. harnardi, easily separable by the heavier sculpture and 

 striking colour pattern. 



Hah. N. S. Wales: — Bottle and Glass Rocks, Poi't Jackson (type, 

 Brazier); Catherine Hill Baj- (Cherry). 



Var. TRACUYS Teiiixon-Woodx. 



Maugelia track ijs Tenison- Woods, Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., xiv., 1878, p. 57. 



This western form seems to be slightly larger and to be more highly 

 coloured than the typical eastern j-»/ozo/m^(f, so the name of Tenison-Woods 

 may serve to express a geographical race. 



Hah. Victoria: — Brighton (type, Melbourne Museum); Western Port 

 and Polwarth (Pritchard and Gatliff). South Australia : — Hard wick Bay 

 (Matthews). 



Var. NODOKETE May. 



Clathurella H.odorpte May, Proc. Ro3^ Soc. Tasm., 1915, p. 84, pi. i., fig. 4. 



This southern form diffeis slightly b}^ a rathei- larger protocouch, 

 .and by less prominent sculpture. • 



Hah. Tasmania: — 80 fathoms, Schouten Island (type, May). 



i»7 Sowerby-Proc. Malac. Sec, ii., 1896, p. 28. 



io» Pi-itchard aud Gatliff— Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 11)00, p. 176. 



losi Hervier -Journ. de Couch., xlv., 1897, p. 92. 



nil Melvill and Standeu— Jouru. of Conch., viii., 1897, p. 40:]. 



1" Bouge and Dautzenberg — Journ. de Couch., Ixi., 1914, p. 204,. 



