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to the shells above referred to. The form of the columella is a 

 valid reason for the removal of the species from the family 

 Purpuridce; and as in well-preserved adult specimens, a very short 

 sinus exists, the species should have a place in that oiPleurotomidce. 

 In the absence of the notch on the outer lip, the well-defined 

 flexure of the striae of growth is alone sufficient to justify its 

 transference from the one family to the other. The position of 

 the sinus and other external features permit its reception in the 

 genus Mangelia, and it should, henceforth, be known as M. anomala. 

 Indeed its affinity to M. Vincentina, Crosse, is sufficiently close to 

 necessitate close comparison to separate extreme forms of each 

 from one another. 



South Australian examples are for the most part of an opaque 

 white, with black blotches, between the costee, at the anterior 

 suture and on the middle line of the last whorl ; but a few, with 

 thinner tests, exhibit the more elaborate markings which belong 

 to the type specimen. 



M. anomala is a rare shell in South Australian waters, though 

 I have gathered it, from among shell sand, at widely separated 

 localities, thus : Aldinga Bay and Salt Creek, east and west sides 

 of St. Vincent's Gulf, respectively; Wauraltie, east side of Spencer's 

 Gulf ; and Fowler's Bay, Great Australian Bight. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY E. MEYRICK, B.A. 



III. TINEINA. 



In the following paper I have described forty-seven species of 

 the least-developed families of the Tineina ; five of these have 

 been previously described, the remaining forty-two are new to 

 science. One only out of the whole (JBedellia somnulentella, ZJ 

 occurs elsewhere, being common to Europe and North America, 



