272 MELO. 



following observations : — " Mr. Reeve has figured the Port Lin- 

 coln one (as if from Tasmania) as V. undulata, Lam., which 

 shell agrees best with the description. If you consider them suf- 

 ficiently distinct, pray name and describe the Tasmanian and Bass's 

 Straits one as new. I have very rarely met with the Tasmanian 

 shell as far up the east coast of Australia as Port Stephens. The 

 Port Lincoln variety appears strictly confined to the S. Australian 

 shores westward of Cape Northumberland, and ranges to the 

 islands of the great Australian Bight, its metropolis being Port 

 Lincoln." 



74. Ellioti (f. 126, 127), Sowb. — Pusiformis, subangulata, 

 solida ; spira pallide fulva, lineis fascis seu rubris fluctuatis longi- 

 tudinaliter pieta, breviuscula, apice subirregulari papillari ; an- 

 fractibus paululum infktis, suturis albis tumidis ; apertura pos- 

 tice subangulata, antice contracts ; labro paululum incrassato, vix 

 dilatato ; columella antice incrassata, ; plicis quatuor, obliquis. 

 Olis. Intermediate in character between Dr. Gray's Y. Humeri 

 and the elongate form of F. undulata. It is decidedly more 

 angular than the former, from which it is more particularly dis- 

 tinguished by the form of the spire. In Tumeri and pallida, as 

 well as in Reeve's reticulata and pratexta, the spire is regular and 

 conical, whereas in V. Ellioti the second or third whorl is always 

 a little swelled and generally obliquely placed. This places it 

 with V. undulata in Dr. Gray's division of the group, as having 

 the " apex large, subpapillary." In fact, its apex is much more 

 like that of V. undulata than that of any other of the series. 

 The lip is less thickened than in V. undulata, more so than in V. 

 Tumeri, pallida, etc. See my pamphlet and plate accompanying 

 this. — Voluta Ellioti, name, figures, and description distributed 

 Aug. 15, advertised in Court Journal, Aug. 27. — Amoria Tumeri 

 Jamrachi ?, Gray, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. Sept. 1, 1864. 



Melo, PI. IV. Thes. 262. 



Continued from Thes. pi. 84, and page 416. 



Cymba, Thes. vol. i. p. 410. 



Sp. 9. Cymbitm, Linn., changed on account of uncertain synonymy to 

 Cisium, Martyn. 



3. J5thiopicus ( — pica, by error), f. 33, is of a more deve- 

 loped specimen, completing the representation of the species with 

 f. 9, 13, 14, 19. 



