486 STUDIES ON AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA, X., 



Cominella maura A. Adams. 

 A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854 (1855), p.313. 



The British Museum cotype easily falls within the variation- 

 range of the "protean Cominella lineolata Lamarck. This has 

 already been conjectured by Tryon. The locality of Darnley 

 Island, Torres Strait, is an obvious error, as the species does not 

 range so far north. 



Peristernia nodulosa A. Adams. 



A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854 (1855), p. 313. 



(Plate viii. fig. 11). 



This species has not been figured or again noticed in literature. 

 It was originally reported from Australia, but I am not 

 acquainted with an Australian shell like it. It would seem to be 

 related to Pyrula anomala Reeve. The cotype received has been 

 so severely etched with acid that the surface and upper whorls 

 have gone. Shell massive, biconical, constricted on the base and 

 below the suture. Five whorls remain. Heavy blunt nodules, 

 about eight to the last whorl, are disposed in a peripheral row. 

 Within the throat are seven entering lyrse. Base of the columella 

 with an obscure tubercle or two. Canal short recurved. A 

 funicular ridge extends from the canal backwards around a 

 shallow axial perforation. Length 30 mm.; breadth 19 mm. 



Terebra australis Smith. 



E. A. Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xi. April, 1873, p.264. 



(Plate viii., fig. 2). 



The original localities are Swan River, and Paterson's Bay, 

 Torres Strait. The cotype figured is 43 mm. long, and 9 mm. 

 broad. 



