146 SOLIDULA. 



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

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

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

 (Any.) 



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



Shell elongately ovate, rather solid, white, shining ; spire acum- 

 inate, pointed at the apex; whorls 7?, encircled by numerous un- 

 equal, irregular, impressed and finely punctured strise, which become 

 fewer towards the upper whorls ; sutures impressed ; outer lip thin, 

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

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

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



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



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



>. KIRKI Hutton. Unfigured. 



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

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

 double fold ; white. 



Length 20, breadth 1\ mill. (Hutton). 



Omaha, New Zealand. 



Bucdnulus 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 strise showing distinctly in the grooves. Col- 

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

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



Auckland; also in pliocene at Wanganui, New Zealand. 



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

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

 alba HUTTON, The Pliocene Mollusca of New Zealand, p. 37, pi. 6, 

 f. 2. (Macleay Memorial Volume.) 



S. GRACILIS Kirk. Unfigured. 



Whorls 8, finely and closely spirally grooved. Body whorl rather 

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

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



