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DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALASIAN VOLUTES 
tv South Wales ; and I had these shells forwarded to me in large 
numbers from Norfolk Island, having been collected there by Mrs. 
Adams, since her removal from Pitcairn’s Island. I have had the 
species also from Lord Howe s Island, so that it must be widely- 
distributed. It is of small size, not averaging more than seven- 
eighths of an inch in length. 
41 . —VOLUTA DELICIOSA— Montrozier. 
This is another species peculiar to the shores of New Caledonia; 
it resembles Valuta nucleus, Lam. in general aspect, but it i s ^ 
larger species : its exact habitat appears to be the Isle of Art, also 
on various points of the large island, and at Wantoro Bay, Ueav 
the Port de France.— Noumea , by Mr. Brazier. 
SECTION ALCITIIOE. 
42.—VOLUTA KREUSLER/E—Angas. 
Was in 1865 added to the list of Australian Volutes by Mr. 
Angas, as coming from Glenclg, in South Australia. I am not 
aware that any further additions have been made to any public or 
private collections since the original specimen was described. 
43.—VOLUTA THATCHERI—M'Coy. 
The specimen from which this beautiful species was first described 
was obtained by Mr. C. 11. Thatcher in a pawnbroker's shop in 
Collins-street, Melbourne. The specimen was a dead one, and Pro¬ 
fessor M'Coy had not an opportunity of giving in his original 
description any idea of the beauty of this species. Mr. Brazier 
seems to have had a specimen of this shell some time previous to 
the original specimen being described, but it had been put on one 
side and overlooked. He appears to have been the first who 
obtained it from its now well-known and limited habitat—the 
Bampton Beefs, north of New Caledonia. Many fine specimens of 
it are now to be found in most of the Australian collections. The 
largest specimen I know of is about five inches long, of an 
elongated graceful fusiform shape, ornamented with two yellow-buff 
indistinct broad bands, one near the tuberculated shoulder of the 
body whorl; the second about the lower third of the same whorl, 
and with large squarish markings above and below the sutures. 
The body of the shell is in fine specimens, closely reticulated, witlx 
white pyramidal markings ; it has a hard papillary apex. 
44.— VOLUTA PACIFICA— Solander. 
This fine species varies much, being generally tuberculated, but 
is sometimes smooth; the former varieties resemble very much 
