CENSUS OF THE OLDER TERTIARY FAUNA OF AUSTRALIA, 387 
Section AmorIA. 
Shell smooth and polished, protoconch turbinately conic. Ex- 
amples, V. Masoni and V. capitata. 
Section VoLuToconus. 
Shell oblong subcylindrical, protoconch depressedly conoid. 
Examples, V. conoidea and V. limbata. 
Section MaMILLINA. 
Protoconch globulose and large, the tip lateral. Examples, 
V. Hannafordi, V. heptagonalis, V. alticosta and V. Stephensi. 
Section ALCITHOE. 
V. ancilloides, V. Mortoni, and V. Atkinsoni. The last recently 
described by Pritchard.) 
Section Leproscapua, Fischer, 1883. 
Shell small, oblong-fusiform ; protoconch mamillated, outer lip 
variced. Example, V. crassilabrum, which, by comparison of actual 
specimens, has much analogy with the type species, V. variculosa, 
Lamk., of the Parisian Eocene. 
: Section ScaPHELLA. 
Smooth shells with a mamillary protoconch. Examples, 
V. Maccoyi and V. polita. 
| Section EosEPH#A. 
Shell more or less mitraeform, transversely striated and usually 
longitudinally ribbed ; protoconch papillary smooth with the tip 
exsert and pointed. Examples, V. macroptera, V. Allport, 
Johnston,? V. lintea, V. cribrosa, V. sarissa, V. pagodoides, and 
V. Tateana. 
The differences which separate the typical members of this group 
and Aulica are somewhat bridged over by V. cathedralis, connect- 
ing through V. pseudolirata to Aulica, and making an approach 
to V. sarissa in the section Eosephaea. 
1 Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 1896. 
2 Syn. V. Halli, Pritchard—Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 1896. 
