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diemanensis, very like S. denticulata, in fact I see no difference, except that 

 it is amaller. S. Ufurcata is a thin flat species, of pale internal colour, 

 found in Port Jackson. S. Baconi is a West Australian species, said to 

 occur in South Australia, but the specimens I have seen from South 

 Australia, and those under that name in Port Jackson collections, I should 

 call varieties of S. diemanensis. In Reeve's monograph there are two 

 species named S. faniculata, viz., pi. 2, fig. 6, said to come from Van 

 Diemen's Land, and pi. 7, fig. 35, with an unknown habitat. This has a 

 hooked apex. The specific title of the first species so named may be 

 dropped as only distinguishing a variety of S. diemanensis. I find that Mr. 

 G. F. Augas refers to 8. funlmlata thus, in the Pro. Zool. Soc. 1867, 232, 

 S./., Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. %fig. 6. '' A conical species, ribbed with white, 

 denticulated, and stained in the interior with brown. It varies considerably 

 ia colour. Found also in Tasmania, S. atra, Quoy and Gaimard, a Pacific 

 and Japan species is said to occur also in Port Jackson." 



In the collection at the Sydney Museum there is a species named S. 

 funiculata, which I should say was only a pale depressed variety of my -S'. 

 zonata, but it does not in any way correspond with Reeve's description and 

 figure of the first of the two species so named by him. I can only conclude 

 that a mistake has been made in the identification by Australian naturalists, 

 and thus the shell now described, which is an entirely new and distinct 

 species, has been regarded as S. funiculata. Reeve, and so passed over. 



