A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN TURRID®—HEDLEY. 253 
The material for this description has been gathered among storm 
drift on ocean beaches, and is worn or broken. This species has a general 
resemblance to MW. hurpularia, but differs by being larger, of more slender 
proportions, more contracted at the base, with less prominent radials and 
with spiral threads. 
Hab. N.S. Wales:—Woolgoolga (type, C. Laseron); Little River 
(Brazier); Catherine Hill Bay (R. L. Cherry); Thirroul (Mrs. N. Barnett). 
MeLavoma SUBVIRIDIS May. 
Drillia subviridis May, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1910 (1911), p. 392, pl. xiv., 
fig. 18. 
Hub. Tasmania:—9 fathoms, Derwent Hstuary (type); 40 fathoms, 
Schouten Island (May).  Victoria:—80 fathoms, Gabo Island (“ En- 
deayour’’). 
Meratoma woopst Beddoie. 
Drillia woodsi Beddome, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1882 (1883), p. 167. Td. 
Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxvi., 1901, p. 368. Id. 
Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1903, p. 388. Id. Verco, Trans. Roy. 
Soc. 8.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 301. 
Drillia howitti Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 1899, 
pp. 101, 172, pl. vili., fig. 2. Id. Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., 
xxv., 1901, p. 722. 
Hab. Tasmania :—D’Entrecasteaux Channel (type, Beddome); Fred- 
rick Henry Bay (May). Victoria:—Gippsland Coast (Pritchard). South 
Australia :—Middleton ; 300 fathoms, Cape Jaffa ; 200 fathoms, Beachport 
(Verco). N.S.Wales :—Sydney ; 22 fathoms, Manning Heads ; 24 fathoms, 
Broughton Islands; 50 fathoms, Botany Heads (‘ Thetis”’). 
Var. acosrara Verco. 
Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. §.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 301. 
Hab. South Australia :—200 fathoms, Beachport ; 130 fathoms, Cape 
Jaffa (Verco). 
Torricura Schumacher. 
Turriculu Schumacher, Essai Nouy. Syst. Vers. test., 1817, p. 217, type 
T. flammea Schumacher=Murew tornatus Dillwyn, Chemnitz, Conch. 
Cab., iv., pl. exliii., fig. 1836-8. Id. Ivedale, Proc. Malac. Soc., xii., 
1917, p. 324. 
Sureula H. and A. Adams, Gen. Ree. Moll., i., 1853, p. 88. 
The brothers Adams introduced Sureula to replace Schumacher’s 
name, on the mistaken plea that it was preoccupied by Klein. References 
to Turricula previous to 1817 are invalid for nomenclature, and the 
