AULICA. IM 



V. FLAViCANS, Gmelin. Tl. 2G, lig. 11 ; Tl. 27, lig. 84. 



Yellowish gray, fasciculated with brown beneath the sutures ; 



surface marbled, strigated and reticulated with brown. 



Length, 3-3"75 inches. 



N. Australia. 



V. signifer, Brod., is an elongated Jlavicans, with the lip not 

 quite mature. V. Tissotiana, Crosse (fig. 84), is also a variety. 



V. EXOPTANDA, Sowb. PL 26, fig. 72. 



Pale rose-orange, densely promiscuously painted throughout 

 with sharply waved fine chestnut-red lines ; columella and interior 

 of shell orange-color. Length, 4 inches. 



Port Elliott and Port Lincoln, Australia. 



Is V. Hargreavesi, Angas (PI. 27, fig. 82), a possible variety 

 of this species ? 



V. Australia, Cox. PI. 26, fig. 73. 



Reddish orange, with dark chestnut undulated longitudinal 



markings Length, 2*5 inches. 



Bass Straits, Australia. 



The sutures are said to be vitrified, a character of the next 



group, Amoria ; from which it differs in having only four colu- 



mellar plaits. Appears to be rather too closely allied to V. 



exoptanda. Mr. Brazier considers it a variety of V. undulata, 



Lam. 



y. Gray^, Crosse. PI. 26, fig. 74. 



Yellowish, with zigzag longitudinal brown lines, increased in 

 thickness so as to indicate three interrupted revolving bands. 



Length, 5'5 inches. 



Northwest Coast of Australia. 



Described by Gray as V. Maria-Emma., and the name very 

 properly changed by Crosse because not binomial ; and if per- 

 mitted to stand in this case, some Spaniard having baptismal 

 names enough to fill half a page might have them all immortal- 

 ized in a single species. This species is, so to speak, intermediate 

 between Aidica and Avioria^ for to the nucleus characteristic of 

 the first group it unites the system of coloration and suture of 

 the second. 



