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Pyrene nuheculata, Reeve, of which I think it is only a* 

 variety : — 



1. A whitish shell with an opaque white continuous 

 band encircling the body-whorl from the suture. 



2. Or with a spiral of white dots encircling it. 



3. A white-dotted peripheral spiral, and an infra- 

 sutural spiral of narrow elongate brown spots ; sometimes the 

 brown spots are faint or invisible, and there are opaque white 

 spots ; sometimes white-and-brown spots articulate ; some- 

 times the space between these spirals is dotted white. 



4. A white-dotted peripheral spiral, and above this a 

 spiral of larger fewer brown blotches. 



5. A white-dotted peripheral spiral, above this a spiral 

 of brown s£>ots, and another at the suture clouding into each 

 other between. 



6. A white-spotted peripheral spiral with about twelve 

 wavy axial brown thin flames from suture to snout. 



7. A distinct dark-brown hair line at the periphery, and" 

 showing immediately above the suture, or with this hair line 

 immediately above a white-dotted peripheral spiral, or with 

 broad light-brown distant axial flames to the suture above, or 

 with the peripheral hair line, and above this fine oblique^ 

 Bictua lines up to the suture. 



8. A peripheral spiral only of narrow elongate spots, 

 appearing just above the suture in the spire. 



Pyrene legrandi, Tenison- Woods. 



Columbella legrandi, Tenison- Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas- 

 mania, 1876 (1875), p. 152. Type locality— "King's Island, Tas- 

 mania." Tryon, Man. Conch., 1883, vol. v., p. 137, pi. li., fig. 49; 

 Kobelt, Conch. Cab. (Ed. Kiister), 1897 (1895), t>. 212 No. 237,, 

 pi. xxix., fig. 9; Tate and. May, Proc. Linn. Soc, New South 

 Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., part 3, p. 367; May, Proc. Roy. Soc, 

 Tasmania, 1902, p. 110, fig. 5, in text; Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. 

 Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1908, vol. xxi. (N.S.), part 1, p. 373, Vic- 

 torian coast (recorded op. cit., 1899, vol. xi., p. 203, as C. brun- 

 nea, Brazier). 



The colouration is very variable. The shell may be 

 uniformly rose-pink, brown, or white. There may be a 

 dotted white sutural line, and a peripheral white spiral, con- 

 tinuous or interrupted. There may be white and amber- 

 coloured axial flames from the suture to a white peripheral 

 spiral band, or crowded opaque white axial narrow lines, or 

 narrow obliquely spiral Dictua-like lines, either brown or 

 opaque- white, or in an opaque white shell there may be a 

 spiral of distant fantastic amber blotches in the spire-whorls, 

 an amber continuous spiral above the suture, and a broad basal 

 amber band. 



