344 petterd: list of the Australasian volutes. 



21. Voluta fulgetrum Broderip. 



Habitat — Encounter Bay and Spencer's Gulf, South 

 Australia. 



22. V. flavicans Gmelin. 



Habitat — Port Essington, North Australia, Katow. New- 

 Guinea. 



Variety — Tissotiana Crosse. 



Habitat — Port Essington, Liverpool River and Crocodile 

 Reef, North Australia. 



23. V. Rossiniana Bernardi. 



Habitat — Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. 



24. V. marmorata Swainson. 



Habitat — Port Jackson, New South Wales, to Moreton 

 Bay, Queensland. 



I have obtained some very fine examples near the Tweed 

 River Heads. 



25. V. mitriformis Lamarck. 



Habitat — Port Lincoln, South Australia, King's Island, 

 Bass Straits, North coast of Tasmasnia. 



Specimens from the last given locality are generally paler 

 in color than those from the mainland. 



26. V. nucleus Lamarck. 



Habitat — Newcastle, New South Wales, Norfolk Island 

 and Lord Howe's Island. 



27. V. deliciosa Montrouzier. 



Habitat — New Caledonia. 



28. V. Kreuslerae Angas. 



Habitat — Glenelg, South Australia. 



29. V. Thatcher! McCoy. 



Habitat — Bampton Reefs, north of New Caledonia. 

 Specimens of this rare and beautiful species are often 

 brought to Llobart Town by the whaling vessels. 



J.C , ii., Nov., 1879 



