46 COIiEOIIONS PBOM MBLAITESIA. 



18. Mnrex monodon. 



Sowerby ; Heeve's Conch. Icon. figs. 21 a,b ; Sowerby, Thes. Conch, iv. 



pi. 385. figs. 55, 56; Kiister, Con.-Cah. pi. 16. figs. 1, 2. 

 Murex aranea, Kisner, Coq. Vw. pi. 36. fig. 1. 



Hab. Albany Island, North Australia, 3-8 fms. (Coppinger) ; Du- 

 puoh's Island, Torres Straits {Reeve), 



A single specimen from Albany Island belongs to the pale variety 

 (fig. 21a, Con. Icon.) with a reddish-pint peristome, and has a re- 

 markable frond on the labrum, the second from the top, measuring 

 55 millimetres in length. The tooth on the labrum exhibits a 

 remarkable development in this species. 



19. Fnsus hanleyi. 



■ Trophon hanleyi, Angus, Proa. Zool. Sac. 1867, p. 110, pi. xiii. flg. 1. 

 Fusus hanleyi (JS. Smiih .'), Sowerby, Thes. Conok. p. 83, fig. 145; 



Hah. Port Jackson {Angus and Goppinger) ; Port Curtis (Oop- 

 pinger). 



Mr. Sowerby erroneously attributes this species to me ; the coarse- 

 ness of his figure renders it of but little use, that in the ' Proceedings ' 

 being far preferable. 



20. Fusus heptagonalis. 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 26 a, 6; Sowerby, Thes. Conch, fig. 132. 



Eab. ? Port MoUe, Queensland {Goppinger). 



The colouring of Sowerby's figure is totally incorrect, and it is not 

 nearly so accurate with regard to sculpture as that in the ' Conoho- 

 logia Iconica.' This species is not always heptagonal, the number 

 of ribs in three cases out of foui being eight instead of seven. When 

 in fine condition the spiral ridges of this species are finely imbri- 

 cately scaled by the parallel wavy lines of growth. The only spe- 

 cimen obtained by Dr. Coppinger is in a bad state of preservation, 

 and of a considerably more dwarfed or stunted growth than the type 

 and two other specimens in the British Museum. It is, however 

 adult, exhibiting the thickened lip and eight lirae within of an adult 

 shell. The canal, too, is short, and the last whorl has an inconspicuous 

 pale zone around the middle, also 'observable in one of the other 

 specimens above referred to. 



21. Fusus cereus. (Plate V. flg. D.) 



Shell short, ovately fusiform, pale yellowish, ribbed, and trans- 

 versely scabrously lirate. ' Whorls about 8, the remaining six 

 thickened beneath the suture by a stout ridge, then obliquely slo- 

 ping, angled at the middle and contracted at the base, strengthened 

 with eight stout costse, which are obliquely continuous up the spire 

 and crossed by four spiral squamose lirse, two of them around the 

 lower half of the whorls being twice as thick d| the other two above 

 and particularly prominent upon the ribs. The last volution, in 



