38. 
South Australian Shells. 
S. A. NAT.j VOL. XVI. 
July 24, 1935. 
Gibbula lehmanni Menke 1843 {Turbo) { — Gibbula pul - 
chra A. Adams 1851: not Trochus lehmanni Kiener). Umbili- 
cate, roundly conical; white and reddish tessellated; whorls five 
to six, the first eroded, the following angular, flattened above, 
gradate, strikingly painted, spirally lirate, lirae delicate, about 
twelve on the penultimate whorl; last whorl dilated, biangular, 
with transverse white and reddish-violet interrupted lines, like 
flexuous rays; at the impressed suture and periphery there are 
zones of violet-brown spots alternating with white or yellowish 
ones; base convex, with fifteen to sixteen concentric lirae; aper- 
ture subovate, margins thin; columella arcuate, subnodose inside 
below; umbilical tract white, funnel shaped. Height 7.5 diam. 
9 mm. Specimen figured 7x9 mm. Dredged — Wallaroo, In- 
vestigator Straits, Thorny Passage, south of Tunk Head, 14-2‘> 
fathoms. Also Western Australia — Cottesloe beach; and dredged 
— King George Sound, Bunbury, 12-22 fathoms. (Type local- 
ity — Western Australian coasts. We designate Cottesloe W.A.) 
G. coxi Angas, is more solid, less depressed, more excavated be- 
tween the carinae, spiral lirae sharper; coloration different, radial 
flames much fewer, elsewhere spotted rather than spirally artic- 
ulated, irregularly stippled, fewer colours in the same shell. 
Fossarina Adams k Angas 1863. Shell auriform, depressed, 
narrowly umbilicate; spire short; aperture oval, large, oblique; 
interior porcellanous, somewhat iridescent; peristome continuous. 
Operculum horny, multispiral, closing the aperture completely. 
Type — F. patula Adams k Angas. Dentition resembles that of 
Cantharidus. Distribution — Australasia. 
Minopa Iredale 1924 (Subgenus). Depressedly globose, 
thin, smooth, shining, spire minute, suture much impressed, ap- 
erture lunate. Type — F. legrandi Petterd. 
Fossarina legrandi Petterd 1879 {Fossarina) . Depressed- 
ly globose, polished, translucent, rich brown; spire minute, very 
little elevated; whorls three-and-a-half, suture much impressed; 
aperture inflately lunate, tinged white and faintly dilate at the 
inner portion. Height 2 diam. 2.5 mm. South-east of South 
