48 Gatliff and Gabriel, Fasciolavia australasia. [vIk'xxix. 



contains are in the same position as when it was opened. 

 These protoconchs consist of two inflated, smooth whorls, 

 with canal fairly produced, aperture pyriform. They are 

 white and translucent. 



Explanation of Plates. 



Fig. I. — Type, dorsal aspect, 93 x 41 mm. 



Fig. 2. — Type, front aspect. 



Figs. 3 and 4. — Intermediate form, connecting with F. ntistralasia, 

 126 X 50 mm. 



Fig. 5. — Intermediate form, connecting with var. coyonnta, 103 x 

 44 mm. 



Fig. 6. — Young form, jy x 30 mm. 



Fig. 7. — Young form, 70 x 30 mm. 



Some Australian Books Worth Reading. — From "The 

 Dreadnought of the Darhng," by C. E. W. Bean : — " The 

 Magic Carpet. — We were crossing some low rocky ridges when 

 all the colour seemed to fade out of the picture. It was as 

 though the earth had suddenly fainted, or as though we were 

 looking at it through a blue glass. . . . We had seen a few 

 grey mulga trees before among the green scrub, but now every 

 tree was grey. . . . The grass was the old white beards of 

 a thick crop of spear-grass, which had sprung up two years 

 before after heavy rain, and had been dying ever since. The 

 only colour in the scene was where, along the road and between 

 the grass tufts, we could see the earth ; and that was a 

 brilliant red. . . . Everyone said — ' You should see this 

 country in a good year — it's just like a wheat-field,' but, of 

 course, we thought that was a natural exaggeration. . . . 

 About a year later I visited that country again. It had just 

 received a good autumn rain. The grass had not had time to 

 reach its full height, and the country was not quite the picture 

 that one had heard about, but it was near enough to convince 

 one that the descriptions of it were not exaggerated. . . . 

 A little later we drove through acres strewn thick wath a sort 

 of white daisy ; in other parts the land was covered with some 

 herb that blossomed pink and yellow. We could not tie the 

 grass over the horse's withers, but we saw enough to believe 

 them when they said that in some years they could." 



