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SOLTDULA. 



This, the only species of Buccinulus as yet discovered in Soul 

 Australia, is allied to B. affinis A. Ad., from New South Wales, froi 

 which it differs somewhat in form, and also in the style of coloratioi 

 (Ang.) 



S. NIVEA Angas. PI. 20A, fig. 62. 



Shell elongately ovate, rather solid, white, shining ; spire acu] 

 inate, pointed at the apex; whorls 7, encircled by numerous ui 

 equal, irregular, impressed and finely punctured striae, which becoi 

 fewer towards the upper whorls; sutures impressed ; outer lip thii 

 a little sinuous, arcuate ; columella with a prominent bilobed fol 

 near the lower part, and a single small one above ; inner lip cov( 

 by a spreading callus. Alt. 12*, diam. 4| mill. (Ang.). 



Sow and Pigs reef, Port Jackson, New South Wales (Brazier^ 



Buccinulus niveus ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 19, 97, pi. 1, fig. 27. 



S. KIRKI Hutton. Unfigured. 



Whorls 6, finely and rather distantly spirally grooved, those 01 

 the center of the whorls rather farther apart ; columella with 01 

 double fold; white. 



Length 20, breadth 7J mill. (Hutton). 



Omaha, New Zealai 



Buccinulus Jcirki HUTTON, Catal. Mar. Moll. N. Z., p. 51, 1873 

 Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 40 ; Man. N. Z. Moll., p. 119, 1880. 



S. ALBA Hutton. PI. 18, fig. 94. 



Whorls 7, rather deeply transversely grooved and lightly longitu- 

 dinally striated, the striae showing distinctly in the grooves. Col- 

 umella with a broad double anterior fold, and a smaller postern 

 one. Length 15, breadth 7 mill. (Hutton.) 



Auckland ; also in pliocene at Wanganui, New Zealai 



Buccinulus albus HUTTON, Catal. Mar. Moll. N. Z. p. 51 ; Joun 

 de Conchyl. 1878, p. 40; Man. N. Z. Moll., p. llS. Tornatell 

 alba HUTTON, The Pliocene Mollusca of New Zealand, p. 37, pi. 

 f. 2. (Macleay Memorial Volume.) 



S. GRACILIS Kirk. Unfigured. 



Whorls 8, finely and closely spirally grooved. Body whorl 

 constricted in the middle ; the spiral grooves are much finer at tl 

 anterior end of the whorl, and as they approach the lip, which 



