674 MR. TOM IREDALE ON MOLLUSCA 
Habitat. Off Hermite Island, Monte Bello Group. Dredged in 
4 fathoms. 
Remarks. A vague resemblance to Lulima acicula Gould may 
account for the previous non-recognition of this species. Tryon 
(Man. Conch. vol. viii. 1886) synonymised with that species, 
aciculata Sowb.. pyramidalis Sowb., and vitrea A. Ad., an in- 
congruous combination needing no criticism, but since that time 
little work appears to have been done on this group as regards 
Indo-Pacific species. 
Tryon placed these in Zulima in the section Subularia Monte- 
rosato, which name was proposed to replace Leiostraca Adams, 
which was considered preoccupied. As there is a prior Leio- 
stracus as well as Liostraca and Liostracus, | would agree in 
rejecting Letostraca. 
This species is not a typical Subularia, but might be refer- 
able to Monterosato’s section Acicularia, but that name 1s pre- 
occupied. 
Natica virecivs (Linné, 1758). 
I had determined the Monte Bello shell as Verita rufa Born, 
and noted its absence from Hedley’s Queensland List, before I 
received my friend’s latest paper (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 
vol. xxxvili. 1913), where on p. 299 he recorded this species from 
Palm Island, Queensland, and noted that the correct name for 
the species was as given above. 
SCAPHELLA ZEBRA Leach, 1814, var. 
The shells do not agree with typical S. zebra, from the East 
Coast of Australia. In the British Museum, similar shells from 
West Australia were named S. ellioti Sowerby. Upon investi- 
gation this name was found to have been given to a North 
Avstralian shell (Journ. de Conch. 3rd ser. vol. iv. p. 358, 1864; 
vol. v. p. 25, pl. 11. fig. 19, 1865), and the figure did not agree 
with West Australian examples. As far as I can trace, no name 
has yet been given to the West Australian shell. I, however, 
forbear its nomination, and in preference record it as above: 
it cannot be called S. tuwrneri, as the figure of Voluta turnert 
Griffith and Pidgeon (Anim. Kingdom Cuy, vol. xii. Moll. pl. x. 
fig. 1, Index, p. 601, 1834: no locality given) shows quite a 
different shell. 
SCAPHELLA HEDLEYI, nom. nov. 
Scaphella reticulata (Reeve) does not appear in Hedley’s 
Queensland List, but was added to that fauna by Shirley (Proce. 
Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. xxiii. p. 99,1911) from the Gulf of 
Carpentaria. 
The species was described by Reeve in the Proc. Zool. Soe. 
(Lond.) 1845, p. 144, under the name Voluta reticulata, and 
figured in the Conch. Icon., Voluta, sp. 25, pl. xi. figs. 25, a-b. 
