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M$MOIJtS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
at North-west Isle, Capricorn Group, and it is here differentiated as Leptoconus 
ammiralis temnes subsp. nov. It is a more elegant form than the typical shell, 
with the spire longer and more concave. It is nearest Reeves fig. 11c, blit 
the markings are more pronounced, bold white blotches being present with dark- 
brown linear stripes, the median band bearing two interrupted lines of brown 
on a cream ocellated ground. Coronaxis was introduced by Sw r ainson with 
marmoreus Linn, as type, but the name has been, used for the ebvevus series, 
which is here named Virroconus , ebrceus being selected as type. For the arenatvs 
series Swainson’s Puncticulis is available, while Marches names Bhtzoconus, 
Pionoconvs, and Phasmoconus can be utilised for the groups typified by miles 
Linne, magus Linne, and radiatus Gmelin respectively. Many more names will 
be proposed before any comparative system will be brought into this family, 
such series as the anemone, one of Southern Australia standing apart. For 
anemone Lamarck as type, I here propose the genus Floraconus, and also note 
that there is still confusion in connection with this species which I am attending 
to in another place. 
Cancellaphera amasia gen. & sp. nov. 
(Plate IX. fig. 8.) 
Shell small, subglobose, solid, spire short, shoulder of whorls tabulate, 
mouth somewhat triangular, umbilicus small and deep, plaits three. Colour 
purplish brown with the nodules paler reddish. Whorls four with a smooth 
glassy protoeoneh of two whorls, somewhat globose. Adult whorls with deep 
channelled shoulder, the sculpture of longitudinal ribs crossed by strong spiral 
threads, the ribs being twenty in number, the threads about ten on the last 
whorl. The umbilicus is small, bounded by a curved rib. Columella straight 
with three plaits situated rather deeply, forming an anterior subcanal ; posteriorly, 
the inner lip crossing as a thin glaze meets the outer lip, the aperture being 
triangular in shape but not free. Outer lip thick but not varicose, eleven long 
entering ridges being counted inside. 
Height 15 mm. ; depth 10 mm. 
Habitat : Queensland. Type dredged in 9-11 fathoms, Port Curtis. 
May be Cancellaria obliquata Lamarck of Hedley’s list. 
Family CYPR^EIDiE. 
In my last notes I added several species but was unable to rectify the 
generic nomination. I have, however, to add a new species, a very unexpected 
event, so have endeavoured to utilise Scliilder's recent Revision (Arch, fur 
Naturg. (Wiegmann) Year 91, 1925, abt. A, heft 10, issued in 1927), and bring 
our species into line with recent research. Schikler’s essays mark a most pro- 
nounced advance, and again completely illustrate the development of the 
splitter whenever intensive study is undertaken. Beginning with few genera, 
Schilder has now recognised eighty-four subgenera which he used in a generic 
sense, and, realising that this result would cause a sensation, lumped several 
