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curve of the body is convex, and so passes on regularly to the point 

 of the pillar, which is very oblique and carries a strong, twisted, 

 oblique, longitudinally furrowed tooth ; between this tooth and the 

 body is a very small furrow. Alt. 022 in. diam. O'l. Mouth, 

 breadth at same place, 002. ( Wats.). 



Port Jackson, Sydney, N. S. Wales, 2-10 fms. 



Utrimlus (Tornatina) avenarius Wats., J. L. S. L. xvii, p. 328 ; 

 Chall. Rep. Gastr. p. 658, pi. 49, f. 5. 



Compare T. apicina Gould, and T. hrenchleyi Angas. 



This species a good deal resembles, not the Bulla turrita Moll., 

 but Sowerby's figure of that species in Thesaurus, pt. 2, pi. cxxi, 

 fig. 28. In perfectly fresh specimens the spiral furrows, which I 

 have described as very faint, may be distinct ; but in the ten Chal- 

 lenger specimens they are only traceable with certainty near the 

 edge of the labial pad. Utriculus cavalimlatus (Say), is a much 

 smaller and stumpier form, much broader above with a minute apex 

 turned over on its side. ( Wats.). 



T. HOFMANi Angas. PI. 22, figs. 37, 38. 



Shell cylindrical, white very finely striated by the lines of growth, 

 with a few distant irregular transverse strise discernible toward the 

 lip on the body- whorl; whorls 5?, the upper ones Slightly convex, 

 and channelled at the sutures, the last a little shouldered above and 

 very slightly concave in the middle ; apex sharp ; aperture narrow 

 above, dilated below, and rounded at the base; outer lip thin, 

 arched Avhen vieAved laterally, and slightly contracted in the middle ; 

 columella somewhat thickened below, with a small blunt flexuous 

 projection near the base, and covered by a callus extending nearly 

 to the top of the whorl. Length 82 lines, breadth IJ lines. {Ang.). 

 Sow and Pigs reef, Port Jackson (Brazier). 



T. hofinani Ang., P. Z. S. 1877, p. 39, 189, pi. 5, f 19. 



Evidently not a typical Tornatina. 



Genus RETUSA Brown, 1827. 



Betusa Brown, 111. Conch. Gr. Brit., Edit. 1, 1827 ; Conch. Text- 

 book (edit. 4), p. 97. BuQ. Dautz. & Dollf., Moll. Rouss., p. 527, 

 — Coleophysis Fischer, Manuel de Conch., p. 555, 1883, type trun- 

 catulus Brug. — Utriculus Brow^n (in part). 111. Conch. Gt. Brit., 

 1844 (2 edit), p. 58. Not Utrimlus Schumacher, 1817 (Conidce). 



