197 



Shell imperforate, conoid, elongated, rather thick ; whorls 

 6f, embryonic whorls smooth, purple-brown ; the nextshiningn, 

 a little convex with transverse girdles or belts nearly flat, 3 to 

 5 in number, and of in equal width ; girdles ornamented with 

 subgranular spots purple or brown, obliquely articulated with 

 white, nearly always in the direction of the spots, different on 

 the upper and lower girdles or belts ; last whorl rounded or 

 subcarinate ; upper part ornamented with 4 broad girdles or 

 belts ; base with 4-7 belts divided by a shallow groove ; 

 aperture rhomboidal, peristome bordered with intense reddish 

 pink ; interior white, more or less shaded with greenish, and 

 vividly iridescent ; columellar scarcely arcuate, simple, not 

 denticulated. Height 17, width 11-12 millimetres. 



Hob.- — Swan River, Western Australia (Preiss) ; Rossiter 

 Bay, Recherche Archipelago, Great Australian Bight (Captain 

 Thomas Eossiter, 1841) ; Cape Riche, King George's Sound 

 (Brazier) ; Holdfast and Aldinga Bays, South Australia (G. 

 F. Angas) ; South Australia (Professor Tate, W. T.Bednall); 

 Northern Tasmania (Tenison- Woods, W. F. Petterd). 



3. Teochtjs (Thalotia) conicus, Gray, sp. 



1827 Monodonta conica, Gray in Captain King's Survey of 



Australia. Appendix vol. 2, p. 479, No. 28. 



1828 Troclms pictus, Wood, Index Testaceologious. Sup- 



plement, p. 17, pi. 5 (Trochus), fig. 28. 

 1843 Monodonta turrita, Menbe, Moll. Nova? Hollandiae, 



p. 15, No. 57. 

 Trochus Lehmanni, Kiener, Coq. Vivantes species, Genus 



Trochus, pi. 46, fig. 2 (non Trochus Lehmanni, 



Menke). 



1849 Trochus conicus, Phillippi, Conch. Cab. 2ndedition,p. 



172, No. 150, pi. 23, fig. 1. 

 1849 Trochus turritus (Monodonta), Menke = conicus, Gray. 



Phillippi in Conch. Cabinet, 2nd edition, p. 372, 



Index. 



1851 Thalotia picta, A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 172, 



No. 1. 

 1854 Thalotia conica, H. and A. Adams, Genera of Recent 



Mollusca, vol. 1, p. 420, plate 48, fig. 1. 

 1854 Thalotia picta, H. and A. Adams, Genera of Recent 



Mollusca. vol. 1, p. 420. 

 1854 Trochus Lehmanni, Hombron and Jacquinot, Voyage 



au Pole-Sud, Zoologie, vol. 5, p. 54 : atlas plates 



Mollusca, pi. 14, figs. 7-8 (non Trochus Lehmanni, 



Menke). 



