16 DISTRIBUTION OF AUSTRALASIAN VOLUTES. 
ornamented are in V. lineata closer, and the groundwork is of & 
rusty stained colour. The finest specimens ot this species which I 
have are from Curtis Island, but I have also specimens ot it from 
as far north as Port Denison, and others from Wide Day. 
27.— VOLUTA SCLATERI—Cox. 
This species Hr. Thatcher first obtained from a shop window in 
Launceston about two years ago, and which was described by me in 
the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for I860. It 
is a white species without any ornamental markings, fully three 
inches in length. I have lately received many other fine specimens 
of it unvarying in its characters from an island known as Dog 
Island, in Lass’s Straits. I am given to understand that there is 
a specimen of this shell in the Melbourne Museum, labelled 
as- Voluta Grayi , Cox, but no such species was ever named by 
me. 
28.—VOLUTA KINGI— Cox, 
Is a species created from a number of .fine specimens I have 
recently received from an island near to Dog Island in Bass’s 
Straits. It is about 2^ to 2f of-an-inch in length of the true 
Amoria type, with a bright orange mouth and of a tawny-buff 
colour on the back without ornamental markings. 
29.— VOLUTA AUSTRALIS— Cox, 
Is a very beautiful species, of which, so far as I know, only a 
single specimen has been obtaine.d. It is in the collection of Mr. 
Hargraves, partaking of the characters of Voluta Angasi ,^and V.fusi- 
formis. From information which I have received since it was 
described, I am assured that its true habitat is the Ninety-mile 
Beach in Victoria. It is scarcely more than about two inches 
long, ornamented with a beautiful pattern of very dark longitudinal 
lines of various width and anastomosing. 
30.—VOLUTA HARFORDI—Cox. 
This is a rare species which, I believe, is found at Lady Elliott’s 
Island, on the North-east Coast of Australia, but of this I cannot 
be sure. It' is a small fusiform white shell, described by me in the 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, for 1869, with 
rows of elongated squarish light chestnut markings, fine opaque 
white longitudinal lines, and deeply channelled suture. Sub¬ 
sequently to my description, this shell was described as V. canali - 
culata by Professor M'Ooy, of Melbourne. 
