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Ameria tenuistriata (Sowerby). 
(PL I, Fig. 12.) 
1874 Physa tenuistrata Sowerby, Conch. Icon., xix, pi. 10, fig. 85. 
1874 P. texturata Sby., op. cit., pi. 12, fig. 95. 
1882 P. tenuistriata Sby. Tate and Brazier, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi, 
p. 556. 
1882 P. texturata Sby. Tate and Brazier, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi, 
p. 557_. 
1882 P. tenuistriata Sby. Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool., xvi, 
p. 283. 
1882 P. texturata Sby. Smith, op. cit., p. 283. 
1886 P. tenuistriata Sby. Clessin, Conch. Cab., i, Abth. 17, p. 313, 
pi. 45, fig. 12. 
1886 P. texturata Sby. Clessin, op. cit., p. 306, pi. 44, fig. 12. 
1893 Bulinus tenuistriatus .Sby. Billinghurst, Viet. Nat., x. No. 4, p. 63. 
1896 Id. Barnard, Viet. Nat., xii, No. 10, p. 123. 
1896 Isidora (Bulinus) texturata Sby. Fielder, Viet. Nat., xii. No. 11, 
p. 140. 
1896 Isidora (Bulinus) tenuistriatus Sby. Fielder, op. cit. 
1896 Physa tenuistriata Sby. Tate, Kept. Horn Exped., ii, Zool. p. 212. 
1896 Physa texturata Sby. Tate, op. cit. 
1917 Bulinus tenuistriatus Sby. Cherry, “Bilharziosis,” p. 4, fig. 8. 
1917 Bulinus texturatus Sby. Cherry, op. cit., p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 9. 
1917 Bullinus tenuistriatus Sby. Hedley, Rec. Aust. Mus., xii, No. 1, 
p. 3, pi. 1, figs. 1, 2. 
1917 Bullinus tenuistriatus Sby. var. texturatus (Sby.). Hedley, op. cit., 
figs. 3, 4. 
1932 Ameria tenuistriata Sby. Cotton, S. Aust. Nat., xiii. No. 4, p. 160, 
pi. 2, fig. 6. 
1936 Id. Cotton, op. cit., xvii. Nos. 1-4, p. 83. 
Size of Average Specimen. — ^I^engtb, 13 mm.; breadth, 9 
mm. 
Localities. — Heywood, Bunyip, Gimbower, Murtoa, Fern- 
shaw, Kyneton (Coliban River), Botanic Gardens, Mel- 
bourne (Nat. Mus. Melb.) ; Swan Hill; St. Arnaud; Caulfield 
(F. L. Billinghurst) ; Colac (A. C. Nilson) ; Loddon River at 
Eddington (J. H. Young); Eclmca; Heidelberg (F. G. A. 
Barnard) ; Lake Hattah (J. E. Dixon) ; Dartmoor (R. A. 
Keble) ; Overland Corner (F. H. Taylor). Forma texturata 
— Fern Tree Gully (Nat. Mus. Melb.) ; Dimolly (T. Wor- 
cester) ; Wimmera R. (Cox Coll.) ; Benalla (G. B. Prit- 
chard) ; Stawell (F. L. Billinghurst) ; Mt. Alexander (R. 
Etheridge) ; Caulfield; N.E. Victoria (Rev. W. Fielder). 
Vernacular Name. — The Thinly- Striated Pond Snail. 
Observations. — Careful study of numerous siiecimens of 
the two forms described as tenuistriata and texturata from 
New South Wales, Victoria, and the type localities in South 
Australia leaves no doubt as to their specific identity. Tex- 
