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types C. paiicirugis and C. semigranosa, which are now found 

 on oui- coasts. 



Fusus TATEANA. n. s. Shell ovately fusiform with the 

 apex curved, and a rather long, narrow, straight canal ; whorls 

 8, roundly convex, smooth, the upper and obliquely curved ones 

 obscurely tubercled, and all more or less marked with flexuous, 

 slightly raised lines of growth ; suture well defined but not deep, 

 rather sloping; aperture regularly elliptic, smooth, outer lip thin 

 and roundly curved into the anterior canal, which is narrow 

 and straight ; base slightly concave. Length, 81 ; lat., 35 ; 

 aperture, 30, anterior canal, 20, but often broken and 

 evidently continued at least 5 mil. further where its width 

 would be scarcely 5 mil. Common. 



The constantly curved apex, the slightly tubercled spire 

 while the rest of the shell is so conspicuously smooth renders 

 this form peculiar and distinct. Among living Australian forms 

 there is nothing at all like it, while with the fossil tertiai-y species 

 of Europe its analogies are remote. I have great pleasure in 

 dedicating the species to Professor Tate, of the Adelaide 

 University, who has done such service to molluscan science 

 by his numerous conchological works, but especially in the 

 revised edition of " Woodward's Manual." 



Fusus TKANSENNA. u. s. I name this shell provisionally as 

 the only specimen sent to me has the apex and lip broken. It 

 is ovately fusiform with sharp spire, and scarcely rounded 

 whorls, which are completely, equally, rather distinctly latticed, 

 with transverse and spiral lirae, which are subnodose at the 

 intersection, there are about 24 longitudinal ones in the 

 body whorls, but this number is uncertain, as they become 

 confused to some extent with the striae of growth, and there are 

 10 spiral ones on the body whorl reckoned at the back of the 

 columella. The body whorl is also subangulate above, and 

 there concave to the suture, which is rendered almost mar- 

 ginate by small granulations at the end of the lirae. The 

 outer lip appears to be thin, the columella slightly twisted, 

 the aperture oval, with a long sub-oblique posterior sub- 

 recurved canal. Long. 22, lafT. 11, aperture with canal, 12, 

 lat. 4. 



Fusus JOHNSTONii. n. s. Shell very small, narrowly 

 fusiform, apex smooth, elongate, of two whorls, the upper being 

 the most swollen ; whorls 7, very convex in the middle with 

 8-9 very prominent broad rounded ribs ; conspicuously marked, 

 with very numerous spiral lirse which alternate, large and 

 small, and pass over the ribs ; longitudinally finely striated 

 but not so conspicuously as lirate, so that the whorls could 

 scarcely be called cancellate, suture deeply impressed, aperture 

 narrowly ovate, canal prolonged, outer lip thin, columella 



