PHASIANELLA. 
Prate II. 
Species 1. (Fig. ¢, 4, g, Mus. Cuming.) 
The three varieties of Phasianella australis given in 
this plate differ materially from those in the last. In Fig. 
1c, the shell is encircled with unarticulated rose-red lines, 
the interspaces being irregularly obliquely tessellated with 
paler lines of the same colour. The colours of the shell in 
this genus are deepest and brightest in the early whorls ; 
as the shell matures, they become weaker and fainter. 
Fig. 1 fis closer rose-banded on an olive ground, with 
only very faint longitudinal articulations in the sutures. 
In Fig. 1 g, the rose bands are replaced by exceedingly 
faint rose articulations, less defined in pattern as the shell 
matures. 
Species 2. (Fig. a, 6, c, d, Mus. Cuming.) 
PHASIANELLA vENUSTA. Phas. testd oblongo-conicd, te- 
nuiculd, levigatd, porcellaned, politd, virescente-albd, 
maculis olivaceo-rufis aut purpureo-brunneis subqua- 
dratis, interdum. intersectis, cingulatd, spird subpyra- 
midali-exsertd, anfractibus septem ad octo, superne de- 
clivi-impressis, deinde cito convexis ; aperturd subpy- 
riformi-ovata, fauce alba, labro simplici. 
Tue HANDSOME PuastIaNELLA. Shell oblong-conical, 
rather thin, smooth, porcelain, polished, greenish- 
white, encircled with square olive-red or purple-brown 
blotches, which are sometimes intersected, spire some- 
what pyramidally exserted, whorls seven to eight, 
slopingly impressed round the upper part, then 
quickly convex ; aperture rather pyriformly ovate, 
interior white, lip simple. 
Reeve, Elem. Conch. vol. i. p. 132. pl. 12. f. 58. 
Hab. Kangaroo Island, Australia. 
I figured this variety of Phasianella some years ago in 
my ‘ Elements of Conchology,’ under an impression that 
it might be fairly distinguished from the numerous varie- 
ties of P. australis ; and I still find, on an examination 
of further specimens, that its characters are to be defined. 
The shell is of lighter substance, and the painting is dis- 
posed in bands of square tessellated blotches, without any 
indication of transverse articulations or longitudinal fes- 
toons. 
an additional linear white band. 
Towards the base, the blotches are intersected by 
May, 1862. 
