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apex, fleshy whitish, clouded with pale brown spots and 

 streaks, whorls 6, rounded, obtusely angulate and subcanali- 

 culate above, spirally sulcate, and girdled with numerous 

 (about 12) lirse alternating great and small ; suture impressed ; 

 apex obtuse and pearly ; last whorl angulate at the periphery ; 

 base convex, lirate and transversely slenderly, spirally 

 sti-iate ; aperture transversely ovate ; lip thickened and 

 nacreous, lirate within; columella short, sloping, concave; 

 umbilical margin 3 costate, terminated with four tubercles. 



North Coast. E. C. Gunn. Closely allied to Monilea 

 corrugata of New South Wales, but more conical, the whorls 

 notgranular,umbilicus wider and terminating in four tubercles. 

 Kare. 



No. 39. Ethalia tasmanica. n.s, T.t. orbicular i, depressa, xim- 

 hilicata conf/picue radiatim costafa, lirata, alba, sparsim rufo punctata ; 

 anf. 5, declivi-cosfatis, costis latis, rotundatis Icevibus; tdtimo obtusi ad 

 peripheriam angulato, superne S-costato, interstitiis latis, concavis, trans- 

 versim liratis, Uris 4-5 rufo jmnctatis ; basi valde coyivexa, spiraliter lirata, 

 liris 5, Icevibus ; callositate opaca, alba, polita, coarctata, circa umbilicum 

 parvum gyrante ; apertura rotundata, intus lirato ; labro postice supra 

 peripheriam expanso et subcalloso; columella concava dente acuto terminata; 

 apiee rotundato, kevl, polita, convexo. Maj. diam. 12i, min. 10, alt. 1h. 



Tbis is the only shell of this genus found in the Australian 

 seas. Mr. Gunn assured me that he found it on the north 

 coast, or I certainly should have thought a mistake had been 

 made. In the Mazatlan catalogue of the Brit. Mus., p. 250, 

 Mr. Phil. Carpenter says : — " Ethalia is a small group of 

 Mazatlan shells of the general aspect of Vitrinellce, and agree- 

 ing with Globulus in having a callous base differing from the 

 typical sp. of that genus : 1st. In being frequently sculptured; 

 2nd. In the callus winding round generally not covering the 

 umbilicus ; 3. In the outside of the callus not being glossy, 

 but having a glossy portion scooped out near the columella. 

 The labium is generally not reflected over the body whorl. 

 Some of the small white shells described as Botellce are pro- 

 bably referable to this form. Mr. Cuming states that the 

 species he found were deep water shells, while Globulus is 

 littoral. 



No. 40 Adeorbis picta. n.s. A.t. orbicular i, subdepressa, profundi 

 perspective ^imbiUcata, longitud. tenuiter striata, 2)olita, jialUde carnea, 

 lineis 4, parvis, rufo et albo macnlatis tenuiter zonata, et nebulis magnis 

 irregidaribus, sanguineis varicgata ; avfr. 5, sujyerne obtuso angulatis, 

 planatis, subcanaliculafis ; basi rotundata, subtilUssime striata, rufo et 

 albo punctata ; ajKrtura rotundata ; peristoma supra peripheriam nltimi 

 anfractus valde expansa, callositate ad columellam supra ad labrum 

 continuata ; columella anfice bituberculata ; fauce intus lirato. Long. 8, 

 lat. 13, mil. 



From the collection of E. C. Gunn, and stated to come from 

 the N.W. Coast, but so unlike a Tasmanian shell that this 

 unique specimen suggests a doubt as to the habitat. Its 



