214 RECORDS OF THA AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
I have to thank the Trustees of the Macleay Museum, University of 
Sydney, for the loan of the Turrids taken by the Chevert Expedition, and 
the Council of the Linnean Society of New South Wales for permission to 
reprint some text figures. 
Family TURRIDA. 
Sub-family Turrina. 
Turris Miiller. 
Turris Miller, Delic. Nat. Selectze, i., 1766, p. 129, type Murea bubylonius 
Linne. Jd. Bolten, Mus. Bolt. 1798, p. 123. Jd. Dall Proc. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., liv., 1918, p. 332. 
Plewrotoma Lamarck, Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, 1799, p. 73. 
Lophiotoma Casey, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, xiv., 1904, p. 130. 
Turris is a strictly tropical genus. The shell is large, with a tall 
slender spire; outer lip sharp, without fold or thickening; the notch is a 
deep slit with parallel sides following a walled-in fasciole; within the 
body whorl are sharp raised revolving threads (PI. xlii., fig. 1), a feature 
shared by related genera. Protoconch of two smooth rounded whorls 
(Pl. xlii., fig. 3). Operculum unguiculate, with apical nucleus. The animal 
has been figured by Quoy and Gaimard,! and by Gould.? 
The species catalogued by Brazier? as Plewrotoma brevicaudata is not 
that, but is described in this paper as Turridrupa deceptria. What the 
same writer considered to be Plewrotoma punctata (op. cit., p. 151) is here 
recorded as Gemmula graefei; and what Brazier catalogued as P. jubutu 
and P. armillata are here included under Turridrupa acutigemmata Smith. 
From the Australian Tertiary the following fossils have been described 
by Harris—Turris optata, sulebrosa, septemlirata, subconcava, and trilirata. 
TURRIS BABYLONIA DLinie. 
(Pl. xli., fig. 1.) 
Murex babylonia inne, Syst. Nat., x., 1758, p. 753. Id. Knorr, 
Conchlien, iv., 1789, p. 403, pl. xiii, fig. 2. Jd. Hanley, Ips. 
Linn. Conch., 1855, p. 299. : 
Plewrotoma babylonia Weinkauff, Conch, Cab., 1875, p. 10, pl. i, figs. 4, 5. 
Il. Tapparone Canefri, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ix., 1878, p. 246. Id. 
Shirley, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxiii, 1911, p. 101. Td. 
Schepman, Siboga Hxped. Mon., xlixe., 1913, p. 398. Id. Bouge and 
Dautzenberg, Journ. de Conch., xli., 1914, p. 125. 
Buceinum coelatwm Martyn, Uniy. Conch., i1., 1789, pl. xciv. 
yas > ’ 
Plewrotoma venusta Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1., 1843, pl. ix., fig. 79. 
Hab. Queensland:—Cairns (Shirley). 
1 Quoy and Gaimard— Astrolabe Zoologie, Pl. xxxv., fig. 4. 
2 Gould—Moll. U.S. Explor. Exped., Pl. xviii., fig. 311. 
3 Brazier—Proe, Linn, Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1876, p. 152. 
