568 DR. J. COX ON NEW LAND AND MARINE SHELLS. [Junel7, 



Voltjta (Callipara) brazieri, sp. nov. (Plate XLVIII. 

 fig. 8.) 



Shell oblong-ovate, thin ; spire very slightly raised, acute ; 

 whorls smooth, striated longitudinally with lines of growth, and very 

 finely closely striated throughout transversely with fine sculptured 

 lines* apex granular; last whorl large and ventricose, shouldered 

 towards the apex, and moderately contracted at the base ; columella 

 three-plaited, the plaits thin, close-set, prominent, and short ; 

 aperture ascending as high as the shoulder of the last whorl, narrow 

 above, much wider below, owing to the receding columella ; outer 

 lip scarcely thickened, indistinctly banded about the centre with 

 dark chestnut, ornamented with irregular buff-coloured markings. 



Length T10; width 0*55 of an inch. 



Hob. Wooli Wooli, Clarence River, east coast of New South 

 Wales. 



Voluta macgillivrayi, sp. nov. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 9.) 



Shell ovate or oblong-ovate, thick, ponderous ; spire short, conical, 

 obtuse, obsoletely noduled at the apex; whorls smooth, bluntly 

 angled above and nodosely tubercled at the angle, generally with 

 nine large tubercles ; cream-coloured, last whorl ornamented with 

 three dark brown-red zones, composed of irregular-sized and irre- 

 gularly distributed short dark brownish-red lines placed longitu- 

 dinally, and minute round dots of the same colour, the interstices 

 showing the cream-colour of the shell in irregular-sized pale spots, 

 and displaying faint broad waved lines running longitudinally; 

 columella strongly four-plaited ; interior of the aperture and the 

 columella pale orange carnelian ; outer margin rather thin, rather 

 widely expanded, and angulated opposite the row of tubercles. 



Length 3-10; breadth 1'50 of an inch. 



Hab. Woodlark Island {mus. Cox). 



This fine species is allied to V. innexa, Reeve ; but it is a much 

 more ponderous shell, and is quite distinct in its markings, having 

 none of those triangular ones characteristic of that species, and it 

 is broader at the base. The peppered-like spots very much resemble 

 those of V.piperata, Sow.; but it shows none of the olive-black 

 waved streaks of that species, and, unlike V. piperata, it is bluntly 

 shouldered with large nodular tubercles ; the spire of V. piperata is 

 also more attenuated and is smooth. They differ also materially in 

 the shape and colour of the aperture. 



Voluta innexa, Reeve. 



Four very fine specimens of this rare species have been recently 

 added to our Australian cabinets. Its true habitat has been as- 

 certained without doubt to be the Louisiade group of islands, to the 

 north-east of the Australian continent. 



Cypr^ea coxeni, sp. nov. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 10.) 



Shell subcyliudrically ovate, attenuately beaked anteriorly ; aper- 



