14 Frederick Chapvian: 



■combian (Oligocene). Collected and presented by Mr. J. H. Gatliff; 

 named in recognition of his valuable work in Victorian conchology. 



Fam. FUSIDAE. 



Genus Fusinus, liafinesque. 

 Fr SINUS YouNGi, sp. nov. (Plate III., Fig. 20.) 



Description. — Shell long, fusiform. Spire turrited; apical angle 

 17°. Protoconch smooth, globular at apex, of two turns. Whorls 

 ungulate, upper and lower faces flat or slightly concave; shoulders 

 rcarinate, with about 10 sharp almost spinose and flattened tubercles 

 on each whorl. Ornamented with numerous, closely set, spiral lirae, 

 interrupted on the siphonate part of the body whorl. Lirae crossed by 

 numerous fine vertical threads, forming a delicate mesh-ornament. 

 Aperture narrowly ovate. Canal long, inner lip smooth, outer thin. 



Dimensions. — Length, 27 mm; greatest width of body whorl, 7 

 mm.; length of spire, above body whorl, 12.5 mm.; width of aper- 

 ture, 2 mm. 



Observations. — The original specimen (holotype) was found at 

 Curlewis, and in the Dennant Collection there is a specimen from the 

 same locality, and also others from Shelf ord and Belmont not quite 

 so elevated in the spire, but clearly referable to the same species. 

 There is no other form quite related to this in the Victorian Ter- 

 tiaries. From the New Zealand Tertiary, Suter has describeds? a 

 Fusinus (F. climacotus) from the Oamaru Series of Enfield, which ap- 

 proaches the above species, but differs in the more numerous shoulder 

 tubercles and coarser vertical growth-lines. 



Occurrence. — Janjukian (Miocene), Curlewis. Collected and pre- 

 sented by the late Mr. J. Hay Young of Meredith. Also found at Bel- 

 mont, Curlewis and Shelf ord by J. Dennant (Dennant coll.). 



Genus Solutofusus, Pritchard. 

 SoLUTOFUsus cuRLEWiSENSis, sp. nov. (Plate III., Fig. 21.) 



Description. — Shell turrited, very attenuate. Whorls convex, 

 slightly fluted vertically. Sutures deeply incised or canaliculate, par- 

 -tially separating the whorls. Aperture elongate, pyriform, with a long, 

 slightly twisted canal, rather less than one third the length of the 

 shell; inner lip thinly callused, outer lip fairly thick and transversely 

 costate on the inside. Ornament of sharp lirae, with grooved inter- 

 spaces, and a median thread; crossed by numerous vertical threads. 

 Protoconch finely scaly, cylindrical, apically flattened of two and a 

 half whorls. Neanic stage of shell with nearly obsolete costae, later 

 whorls becoming evenly convex. 



Dimensions. — Length, 56 mm.; width of body whorl, 13 mm.; 

 height of protoconch, 2.5 mm. 



27. Palaeontological Bulletin, No. 5, New Zealand Gealogical Survey, 

 1917, p. 21, pi. Hi., fig. 12. 



