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NOTE ON HARPA (EOCITHARA) PUNCTATA Verco. 
[From “Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,” 
vol. exxvii., 1918. 
Harpa punctata, Verceo, Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1896, vol. xx., 
p. 218. Type locality—-Off Newland Head in 20 fathoms. 
During the past seventeen years three more examples of 
this shell have been taken—-one at Normanyille, in the 
possession of Mr. Kimber; one by Mr. Saunders at American 
River, Kangaroo Island; and one by Master Francis Arnold 
at St. Francis Island. The first two are somewhat broken, 
but the last is a beautiful specimen of a yellowish-salmon 
tint, with obscure lighter clouded bands as in the type, but 
not showing its crescentic dark blotches, and numerous 
punctations. 
The original specimens measured 32 mm. in length by 
21 mm. in greatest width, and 33 mm. by 22 mm. _ The St. 
| Francis Island example measures 34 mm. by 24 mm., so that 
it is the largest example known. All these are mature, as 
evidenced by the ascent of the suture at the aperture as in 
the genus Scaphella. 
It was classed when described as a Hurpa, but now it is 
placed in Hocithara, a section of that genus created by Fischer 
in 1883 for the reception of Eocene fossils. Cossmann, in his 
Paleoconchologie Comparée, gives the differential characters 
of the section, viz., “the columellar border forms a thin, 
rather wide callosity, which does not spread over the base, nor 
i over the spire whorls, and is bounded outside by a quite 
] distinct margin. This border, too, is detached anteriorly, and 
1 forms an umbilical cleft more or less deep instead of spreading 
itself over the basal pad. Then the siphonal notch is narrower 
and more deeply cut into this pad, so that when the shell is 
viewed from the dorsum, the notch forms nearly a semicircle. 
Finally the riblets are more completely folded upon the suture, 
and cover it, joining one another; though this last character 
is less visible in the South Australian Hocithara, which have 
besides a more globular protoconch.” 
These characters are found in Harpa punctata, which 
has, besides, well marked, the two special features of the 
South Australian fossil examples of Jocithara, viz., the 
globular protoconch, and the-failure of the costules to join 
one another by folding themselves along the suture. 
Professor Tate, in the Transactions of the Royal Society 
of South Australia, 1888, vol. xi., p. 149, in a paper on “The 
Gastropods of the Older Tertiary of Australia,” describes eight 
Species of Harpa, and in Proceedings Royal Society, N.S. 
Wales, 1893, vol. xxvii., p. 173, a ninth species. By the 
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