ACTION. 149 



No additional specimens have been obtained and Reeve suspects 

 it to be a variety of A. tornatilis. 



A. SECALE Gould. 



Shell small, elongate-ovate, thin, straw-colored, polished above, 

 with a sub&utural engraved line, below encircled with punctate 

 striae, whorls 4, tabulated, the last three-fourths the length of the 

 shell. Apex obtuse. Aperture slightly exceeding half the 

 shell's length, ear-shaped, acute behind, well rounded in front ; col- 

 umella conspicuously twisted. Alt. 4, diam. 2 mill. (Gld.~). 



China Seas (Stimpson). 



Actceon secale GLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii, p. 141 ; Otia 

 Conch., p. 113. 



A. MINUTUS Petterd. 



Shell minute, ovate, white, shining, pellucid. Spire small. 

 Whorls 4, flattened. Apex mamillate. Transversely striate with 

 fine waved striae, and faintly longitudinally striate. Aperture long, 

 narrow, expanded at base ; columellar fold conspicuous ; outer lip 

 a little thickened. Alt. 2, diam. 1 mill. (Pet.}. 



Forneaux Group, Bass Straits (R. M. Johnson). 



Tornatella minuta PETTERD, Journ. of Conch., Leeds, ii, p. 105, 

 1879. 



A. AUSTRINUS Watson. PL 20, figs. 24, 25, 26. 



Shell small, thin, ovate, strongly striated, with a high conical 

 spire, blunt tip, and tumid body-whorl. Sculpture : Longitudinals 

 the lines of growth are very faint and somewhat markedly oblique. 

 Spirals the whole surface is scored with strong equal furrows which 

 are about half the breadth of the interstices ; these furrow are not 

 stippled, but are delicately and regularly cut across on the lines of 

 growth by fine threads ; there are about 20 of these furrows on the 

 body and about 9 on the penultimate whorl. Colour porcellanous, 

 with a glossy surface. Spire rather high, conical, subscalar. 

 Apex rather large, blunt and flattened, with a very slight inversion 

 of the extreme tip. Whorls nearly 5, very little convex; the last 

 is rather large and somewhat tumid. Suture rather oblique, slight, 

 scarcely impressed. Mouth oval, pointed above, a^ little oblique in 

 its direction. Outer lip sharp and thin, with its edge crenulated by 

 the sculptural spirals ; in direction it is straight above, well curved 

 on the base, where it is very slightly emarginate. Inner lip : very 

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