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51. C. stercus-muscarum Lam. Sowerby, Thes. Conch., 

 pi. xxxii., 364—5. 



One living specimen found. Bird Island. 



52. Trivia oryza Lam. Sowerby, Thes. Conch., pi. xxxv., f. 

 474—6. 



One living specimen found. New Caledonia. I dredged 

 specimens off Cape Grenville, Northeast Australia, 20 fathoms, 

 sand floor. 



53. T. vitrea Gaskoin. Sowerby, Thes. Conch., pi. xxxv., 



f 456—7. 



One specimen found, in good preservation. Darnley 

 Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sandy-mud floor. 



54. Pustularia staphylaea. 



Cyprcea siaphylcea L. Sowerby, Thes. Conch., pi. xxv., 

 f. 227 — 9. 



The specimen obtained is pure white. Other varieties 

 come from Solomon Islands; New Ireland; New Britain; 

 New Caledonia; Shark Point, Port Jackson, New South 

 Wales, 7 fathoms, mud bottom. This species must not be 

 confounded with CyprcBa limacina Larnarck* 



55. Cerithium Novse-Hoilandise A. Adams. Sowerby, Thes. 

 Conch., pi. clxxviii., f 54, p. 864. 



One specimen found. Common at Mud Bay, Cape 

 York, North Australia, in crevices of dead coral blocks partly 

 covered with mud. 



56. Triphoris violaceus. 



Cerithiinn violaceum, Quoy. Voy de I'Astrolabe. 



Four specimens found under coral. Great North Palm 

 Island, Northeast Australia. Also Home Islands; Barnard 

 Islands, No. III.; Makera Harbour, San Christoval; 'Solomon 

 Islands ; Noumea, New Caledonia ; New Ireland. 



