140 



l^Yhorls eiglit, the first somewhat globose, the next very nar- 

 row, smooth, and bicarinated, the third nearly flat, shining, 

 and spirally scratched ; the other w^horls gradually becoming 

 more and more obtusely angled and swollen round the anterior 

 part, being very contracted at the anterior suture, and flatly 

 sloping to the posterior suture ; encircled with raised threads 

 (about 15 on the penultimate whorl) narrower than the inter- 

 spaces, which are traversed by close-set striae. 



Last whorl tumid and rounded at the periphery, rapidly con- 

 tracted at the base into a long, narrow, straight canal ; the 

 surface tessellated by transverse threads and stouter spira.1 lirae. 



Dimensions of young perfect specimen of five whorls. — 

 Length, 4tt ; breadth, lOo ; length of canal and aperture, 27"5 ; 

 diameter of bulbous summit, 4'5. Of a large incomplete speci- 

 men.— Length, 6S (85 estimated) ; breadth, 22-5 ; length of 

 •^canal and aperture, 33 (estimated 50). 



Localities. — Blue clays at Schnapper Point ; and lower beds 

 at Muddy Creek. 



17. Fusus Meredithae, T. Woods. 



F. gracillimus, Tenison Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc, Tasm., for 

 1875, p. 22 (non Adams and Reeve). 



F. ILereditlicd, Tenison Woods, op. cit. on legend to pi. i, 

 fig. 6. 



Shell elongate-fusiform, with a high conical acuminate 

 spire, ending in a very slender apex of one and a half smooth 

 high whorls. Whorls below the apex, seven and a half, convex, 

 the body whorl sometimes subangulated and somewhat tumid, 

 spirally sulcated, and slenderly ribbed and transversely cos- 

 tated. 



There are about 10 slender costa? on each of the posterior 

 whorls, becoming more and more reduced in size, usually 

 .absent on one or more of the median whorls, and on the body 

 whorl are represented by short corrugations at the periphery. 

 The spiral threads are flatly rounded, alternating with a little 

 wider flat grooves often with a fine thread in the middle; 

 crossed by distant striae which obscurely granulate the lirae. 

 There are about 12 lirae on the penultimate whorl. 



Aperture ovate, rather abruptly contracted to the long, 

 rather open canal ; outer lip thin, obscurely crenulated on the 

 margin, lirate within. 



Length, 33 ; breadth, 11 ; length of aperture, 8 ; of canal, 10. 



Locality .—11^\q Cape. (Hohart IIus. ! B. 31. Johision !) 



18. Fusus Gippslandicus, spec. nov. 

 Shell elongate-fusiform, ending in a smallish mamillate 

 apex of one and a half smooth-rounded whorl, the tips 



