234 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Messrs. Pritchard and Gatliff, having overlooked Petterd’s name when 
they re-described his species, afterwards proposed to reject it on the 
ground of preoccupation by Jeffreys. But the nomen nudum used by 
Jeffreys?’ was Fusus albus, wpon which Petterd’s Columbella alba does not 
infringe. 
Hab. Tasmania :—Blackmans Bay (type, Petterd); King Island (May). 
Victoria :—Flinders (Gatliff). South Australia :—60 fathoms, St. Vincent 
Gulf; 90 fathoms, Cape Borda; 200 fathoms, Beachport; St. Francis 
Island (Verco). : 
Mirrrruara ANGUSTA Verco. 
Mitromorpha angusta Verco, Traus. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiil., 1909, p. 329, 
pl. xxvii., figs. 4, 5. 
Hab. South Australia :—110 fathoms, Beachport (type); 55 fathoms, 
Cape Borda (Verco). 
MITRITHARA AxrcosraTa Verco. 
Mitromorpha axicostuta Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. 8.A., xxxiti., 1909, p. 330, 
pl. xxvil., fig. 4. 
Hab. South Australia :—104 fathoms, Neptune Island (type); 110 
fathoms, Beachport; 1380 fathoms, Cape Jaffa (Verco). 
MITRITHARA AXISCALPTA Verco. 
Mitrithara alba var. awiscalptu Verco, Trans. Roy. Soe. 8.A., xxxiii., 1909, 
p. 329. 
Hab. South Australia:—St. Vincent Gulf; 55 fathoms, Cape Borda ; 
110 fathoms, Beachport (Verco). 
MirrtruaARA COLUMNARIA sp. nov. 
(Plate xlii., fig. 23.) 
Shell rather large and thin, regularly fusiform. Colour pale yellow- 
orange, with a zone of alternate brown and buff beneath the suture. 
Whorls eight, of which three are included in the protoconch. Suture 
impressed. Sculpture :—Radials entirely absent; spirals amount to thirty- 
two on the last whorl and to ten on the penultimate; the summit of the 
whorl is crowned by a strong cord followed by a corresponding sulcus, 
thence the spirals diminish to the periphery, where they are small and 
crowded, with another change the base and snout are occupied by eight 
broad and widely spaced spirals. Lip incomplete in the specimen 
examined; the columella has two low folds. Length 13 mm., breadth 
5 mm. 
This species stands near to M. alba, than which M. columnaria is of 
more slender proportions, thinner, longer, and with more numerous, finer 
spirals. 
Hab. Tasmania:—100 fathoms, Cape Pillar (type, W. L. May and 
self). 
2 Jeffreys—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., viil., 184], p. 165, 
