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C. Digglesi Brazier. — Port Curtis, Queensland, N.E. Australia; 

 eight to ten fathoms. This differs from the type in being 

 quite smooth and having the oblique reddish lines. 



C. Digglesi var.— — . — Port Curtis, Queensland, N.E. i\ustralia; 

 eight to ten fathoms. This variety is of a slender form with 

 a broad white opaque band below the suture ; first three 

 whoiis smooth of a pinkish tinge, the fourth with two 

 narrow reddish bands, fifth with three oblique l^ands, the 

 sixth and last with nine to ten oblique reddish lines. 



C. Tayloriana Reeve=(7. alboinaculata Angas. — Long Bay, 

 near Sydney, N.S.^^^ Found in vast numbers in shell 

 sand thrown up after S.E. gales. I consider Coluinbdla 

 albo>nai.ulata Angas, a synonym of C. Taylor ianus Reeve, 

 an opinion I stated in 1883 in the Proc. of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, p^ 228. The Rev. Robert 

 Boog Watson in his report on the Gasteropoda collected 

 by H.M.S. Challenger, Vol. XV. p. 235 considers it to be 

 C. albomaculata Angas ; he says, " Mr. Tryon considers 

 Angas' species=Ci5'/////'/(5'e'/A? Tayloriana Reeve. His types 

 in the British Museum seemed to me to be Columbella 

 Lincolnensis Reeve ; but I should have united that and 

 several others to Columbella acuminata Menke." I attach 

 very little value to Mr. Cuming's types, for he always had 

 the knack of replacing what he considered better specimens 

 for the actual types, therefore the value of the types are 

 lost. Columbella Lincolnensis Reeve, Columbella acuminata 

 Menke, is C. Meukeana Reeve : Columbella albomaculata 

 Angas, is C. Tayloriana Reeve. The three species cannot 

 be confounded. I give my opinion from having collected 

 some hundreds of the three species ; in marking, &c. there 

 are not two specimens alike. Angas' types of his C 

 albomaculata were collected by me and sent to liim in 1866. 

 Reeve's enlarged figure of C. Tayloriana is very good, 

 and his description -to the point in ever)' respect ; the 

 natural lensrth of Reeve's figure is wVz millimetres. Some 



