346 BULLA. 



Bulla adamsii Menke, Zeitschr. f. Mai, 1850, p. 162 ; Ma], BL 

 1854, p. 43. — B. adamsi Brazier (again), Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, X, p. 92, 1885. — B. australis A. Adams, Thes. ii, p. 576, pi. 

 122, f. 64-66.— SowB., Conch. Icon., f. 12.— Watsox (in part) 

 Challenger Gastr., p. 638. Not B. australis Gray nor Sowerby. 



A more cylindrical, less inflated shell than 7). ampulla, and wider 

 than B. australis, with wider umbilicus. l\\ his attempt to rectify 

 the error of Adams, Mr. Brazier added another synonym to this 

 species ; but the name he gives had been anticipated by Menke,. 

 thirty-five years previously. 



B. AUSTRALIS (Gray) Quoy & Gaimard. PI. 35, figs. 17, 18. 



Shell elongated, cylindrical ; color variable, but usually pale,. 

 marbled with reddish, with longitudinal deep brown flames, some- 

 times traversed by a narrow, well defined band. Aperture rising, 

 above the spire, enlarged toward the base ; vertex impressed and 

 perforated by a very small apical umbilicus. 



King George's Sound (Q. & G.) ; between Freemantle and Wood- 

 mans Point, W. Australia (Menke) ; also Tasmania (Beddome et 

 al) ; Port Jackson (Brazier) ; Spencer and St. Vincent Gulfs (An- 

 gas) ; Port Lincoln and Adelaide ; New Zealand (Yates and Dief- 

 fenbach). 



B. australis Gray, Annals of Philos. (n. s.) ix, p. 408, 1825; 

 Capt. King's Surv. Intertrop. Austr. ii, appendix, p. 490, 1827. — 

 Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, x, p. 89, 1885.—^. austra- 

 lis Q. & G. {de novo), Zool. Voy. de I'Astrol. ii, p. 357, pi. 26, f. 38, 

 39. Not B. australis A. Ad. or Sowerby. — Bulla ohlonga A. Ad., 

 Thes. ii, p. 577, pi. 123, f. 74.— Sowb., in Conch. Icon., f. 9.—? B. 

 substriata Mke., Zeitschr. f. Mai., 1853, p. 136. 



The typical australis is elongated with the apical perforation 

 minute or closed. This form may be confined to the western and 

 southwestern coasts of Australia. Gray's several descriptive notices 

 of the species are wretchedly inadequate, and I have therefore left 

 Quoy & Gaimard's names stand for it. Brazier has given the 

 synonymy almost in full. The distribution of this species in New 

 Zealand requires confirmation and comparison with Australian spe- 

 cimens. 



Var. OBLONG A A. Adams. PI. 35, figs. 12, 13, 14. 



Shell oblong, a little narrower above, the side outlines slightly 

 convex. Surface polished, showing when strongly magnified very 



