118 



1881. Monodonta turrita. Menke=Thalotia conica, Gray ; Tate, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc.', N.S/W., vol. 6, p. 394. 



Hah. — King's Island, Bass Straits {Feron and Lesueur); 

 ]S"e\v Holland {Captain King); St. Vincent Gulf, South Aus- 

 tralia (G. F. Angas, W. T JBednall); Bass Straits and North- 

 East Tasmania {Tenison- Woods, W. F. Fettard); Kangaroo 

 Island {Tate). 



There has been great confusion in reference to this species. 

 It was first of all described by Dr. J. E. Gray as Monodonta 

 conica in 1S27. In 1828 it is figured and called Trochus pictus 

 by Gray or Wood in the Index Testaceologicus. If any natu- 

 ralist will only examine the figure well in the Index Test : he 

 will at once see the figure shows three small denticulations on 

 the columellar. A number of specimens of the slender form I 

 have from St. Vincent Gulf are true to Wood's fig. in Index 

 Test. Philippi, in the Conchylien Cabinet, makes Trochus 

 Lehmanni, Menke, a synonym of Trochus pictus, Wood. The 

 Trochus Lehmanni, Menke, is the Trochus Lesueuri, Fischer, 

 described by Lamarck as Fhasianella elegans. Kiener also calls 

 it Trochus Lehmanni. A. Adams in 1851 comes much nearer 

 than any previous authors, for he quotes it as Thalotia picta, 

 Wood, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, and makes Monodonta turrita. 

 Menke, its synonym. Philippi, in the Index to the Conchy- 

 lien Cabinet, quotes Menke's turritus as the synonym of 

 Trochus conicus, Gray. In 1854 Hombron and Jacquinot give 

 splendid figures of it in the Voyage au Pole-Sud as Trochus 

 Lehmanni. Chenu also figures it as Trochus Lehmanni, but it 

 is not the Trochus Lehmanni of Menke. Mr. Angas quotes 

 this as Thalotia picta, and Tenison Woods does the same. The 

 species they refer to is Trochus Lesueuri, Eischer ; the 

 Fhasianella elegans, Lamarck. Paetel erroneously attributes 

 Trochus conicus to Sowerby. 



3. Teochxs (Caxthaeidus) pulcheeeimus, Gray, sp. 



182S. Trochus pulcherrimus, Gray ; Wood, Index Test. Suppdi- 



ment, p. IS, pi. 6, fig. 45 ; Monodonta pulcherrima, Gray, 



I.e., p. 41. 

 1843. Trochus Freissii, Menke, Moll. Nov. Hollandise, p. 17, 



No. 69. 

 1845. Trochus pulcherrimus, Wood ; Philippi Abbild neuer 



Conch., vol. 2, heft 2 ; Trochus, p. 37, pi. 7, fig. 1. 

 t*1849. Trochus pulcherrimus, Wood ; Philippi in Martini and 



Chemn, 2nd edition (Kuster), p. 132, No. 153, pi. 23, 



fig. 4. 

 1850. Trochus pulcherrim us, Wood; Jay's Catalogue of Shells, 



4th edition, p. 306, No. 7,440. 



