108 
South Australian Shells. 
S.A* NAT., VOL. XV. 
Sept. 20th , 1934. 
Australia). (Type locality—South Australian coasts). 
C. lesueuri Fischer 1880 (= Thalotia picta Angas 1865: 
not Trochus picius W ood 1856). “Lesueurs CantharidusA Shell 
carinate, finely spirally striated, peristome more or less red- 
.edged; sometimes the colour streaks are quite broad; base usually 
finely tessellated, and the lower part of columella crimson; the 
umbilical tract tessellated pink and white. Height 16, diam. 11 
mm. Common at Robe, and not uncommon on beach 
all round the coasts of South and Western Australia to 
’Geraldton. (Type locality—South Australian coasts). 1 his is 
but a variant of C. lehmanni Menke. 
mm. Not uncommon, beach, common at Robe, and not uncom- 
C. ramburi Crosse 1864 {Trochus). PI. 3, fig. 3. Rambur 
was a French paleontologist. Imperforate, pointed conical, solid, 
crimson with narrow radiating whitish flames on upper surface, 
usually extending to the periphery, and an umbilical-tract of 
ied and white tessellated; spire lengthened, protoconch subacute, 
sutures subimpressed; whorls about seven, concave below the 
.sutures, convex and swollen at the periphery and on the lower 
edge of each whorl of the spire; whole surface finely spirally 
lirate, the lirae about as wide as the interspaces, which are ob¬ 
liquely striate; aperture oval-quadrate, iridescent within, less 
than half the length of shell; peristome edged by a row of crim¬ 
son dots, with a porcellanous internal thickening which is finely 
crenulate; columella vertical, slightly arcuate, pearly. Height 
13, diam. 8 mm. General, uncommon, beach, Beachport to \ en- 
us ? Bay. Also Western Australia—Mandurah. (Perth Museum). 
^Type locality—South Australian coasts). 1 his shell is typical¬ 
ly coral-red or crimson colour, flammuiaie above with whit¬ 
ish; fully adult examples often show the light flames only upon 
the upper whorls. We consider it only a straight-sided form of 
C. lehmanni Menke. 
C. nitens Iviener ( = T. lepidus Koch). ''The Shining 
CantharidusA Imperforate, conic-pyramidal, elongated, acute, 
shining, buff or ashen, variegated with minute spots of violet and 
white; whorls seven to eight; embryonic whorls smooth; the 
following planulate, sometimes prominent and dilated above the 
sutures, encircled by about six lirae, the interstices stnate , 
last whorl carinated, encircled by a larger rib at the maigin? 
slightly convex beneath, the whorl bearing eight beautiful.) ie *■ 
spotted concentric lirae; columella white, arcuate, dentate ar. 
base. Height 15, diam. 11 mm. (Type locality—Australian 
coast; Kangaroo Island). Specimens from Corny Point an 
Fremantle agree fairly well with this description and Pilsbi} s 
figure. It may however be only a variety of C. lehmanni Menke. 
