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spirally delicately striate ; last whorl carinated ; base white, 

 radiately striate, somewhat convex ; aperture subquadrate, smooth 

 inside; lip thin, columella scarcely arcuate, narrow, forming an 

 angle with the basal margin ; umbilical area funnel-shaped, white, 

 carinated, the carina subnodulose. 

 Alt. 6, diam. 8 mill. (Fischer.} 



Brisbane Waters, N. S. Wales. 



Minolta bellula ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 48, t. 2, f. 11. T. 

 dianthus FISCHER, Coq. Viv., p. 396, t. 118, f. 2. 



Those naturalists who retain intact the Linnsean genus Trochus 

 must adopt Fischer's name dianthus for this form, as bellulus is pre- 

 occupied by Philippi in Cantharidus. 



M. PUDIBUXDA Fischer. PI. 41, fig. 26. 



Shell small, umbilicated, conoid, rosy- red, ornamented with 

 minute white dots ; whorls 6, slightly convex ; the first smooth, 

 white, the remainder spirally delicately cingulate, cinguli 6 to 8 on 

 the penultimate whorl ; last whorl angulate ; base convex, radiate 

 with rose-color, buff around the umbilicus, concentrically lirate, the 

 Ime about 17-18; aperture ovate-subtetragonal ; lip simple; col- 

 umella arcuate, a little reflexed ; umbilicus longitudinally striate, 

 with a spiral marginal funicle. Alt. 6, diam. 7 mill. (Fischer.} 



New Caledonian Archipelago. 



T. pudibundus FISCHER, Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 66, 206; 

 Coq. Viv., p. 376, t. 114, f. 3. 



M. PREISSIANA Philippi. PI. 41, fig. 29. 



Shell deeply umbilicated, orbicular-depressed, rather thick ; 

 whorls 5 to 5-j, separated by profound sutures, whitish, conspic- 

 uously ornamented with flexuous rosy-brownish lines and remote 

 spots at the suture and periphery ; first whorls smooth ; the follow- 

 ing spirally, delicately sulcate, with an elevated ridge in the 

 .middle; last whorl bicingulate, the cinguli elevated, distant; base 

 convex, concentrically lirate, the lirse larger around the umbilicus ; 

 umbilical area sulcate and funiculate within; aperture subrotund ; 

 columella arcuate, not dentate. 



Alt. 6, diam. 7 mill. (Fischer} 



Gulf of St. Vincent, King Georges Sound, etc., Australia. 



T. preissianus PHIL., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1848, p. 123 ; Conchyl. 

 Cab., p. 177, t. 28, f. 3. FISCHER, Coq. Viv., p. 245, t, 83, f. 3. 

 Gibbula porcellana A. AD., P. Z. S. 1851, p. 186. 



Compare Gibbula weldii Tenison-Woods. 



