DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALASIAN VOLUTES. 
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SECTION VOLTJTELLA. 
31. —VOLUTA FULGETRUM—BRODER1P, 
Is a native of Spencer’s Gulf, although specimens have been 
found as far as Encounter Bay, and isolated ones have even been 
met with on the coast of Tasmania. Magnificent varieties with a 
bright band running round the body, crossing it twice below the 
sutures, are occasionally found. V. fulgetrum is often five inches 
long, and stout in proportion; its pattern is heavy waved longitu¬ 
dinal chocolate lines on a light yellow ground. 
32. —VOLUTA PAPILLOSA— Swainson, 
Has its habitat about Encounter Bay, South Australia.- Speci¬ 
mens there are very rare. The locality where this species is found 
most abundantly is on the North coast of Tasmania, from the 
Black Biver Beacli to the Duck Biver, and sometimes in the 
vicinity of the Tamar Heads. This species is found abundantly 
fossil at Circular Head. 
33. —VOLUTA FLAV1CANS— Gmelin, 
A broail, high-shouldered, and not very handsome Volute, is 
abundant in the .neighbourhood of P f ort Essington. A good many 
specimens were got by Dr. Creed and the crew of Caddis expedi¬ 
tion of 1867. In pattern and structure it differs materially. The 
varieties are well illustrated in the Melbourne Museum, where they 
are arranged according as their tubercules are prominent, small, 
or altogether wanting. 
34 . —VOLUTA TISSOTIANA— Crosse, 
At first sight appears a large variety of V. flavicans. The 
specimen I have, and 1 believe one of the largest known, was found 
on Crocodile Beef, North Australia, by Mr. Gulliver, botanist to 
Caddis expedition, which visited that locality for the purpose of 
fixing on a site for a settlement for the South Australian Govern¬ 
ment in 1868. 
35.— VOLUTA SOPHIA— Gray. 
Is extremely rare. I possess one of tho few good typical 
specimens known, but by far the finest series ot specimens known 
to be found is in Mr. W. W. Ilargraves’s splendid collection in this 
city. Although long described, till recently but very few speci¬ 
mens were known of ; no specimens were found by Cadells party 
or tho pearl fishers of the North-West. In the series referred 
to as being in Mr. W Hargraves’ collection, we find three impor¬ 
tant varieties which have characters so closely allied to those of V. 
