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NOTES ON SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MARINE MOLLUSCA, 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES.—PART IX. 
By Jos. C. Verco, M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.). 
[From ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,” 
vol. xenit., 1908.] 
[Read October 6, 1908. } 
Prares XIV. ro XVIII. 
Turbo jourdani, Kiener. Pl. xviii, f. 32, 33. (YE 
This very rare shell was named and described by Kiener 
in 1839 in the Rey. Zool. Soc. Cuvier, p. 324, and figured 
in the Mag. de Zool. de Guérin, 1840, Moll., pl. ix. To 
neither of these works have we access. 
In 1843 Deshayes, in his edition of Lamarck’s Anim. s. 
Vert., vol. ix., p. 224, says it belonged to the collection of 
Mons. Jourdan, after whom it was named. 
In 1846 Philippi, in the Conch. Cab., ed. ii., Band ii., 
Abt. ii. and iii., p. 56, pl. xiii., f. 4, gives a description 
and figure, with the remark that he had never seen the 
species. 
In 1848 Reeve, in Conch. Icon., Sp. 41, pl. xiii., writes: 
“Of this species there are two examples in the British 
Museuni.” 
In 1873 Fischer, in Cog. Viv., Genus Turbo, p. 11, pl. 
xviil., gives a description and an excellent illustration of the 
smooth form. 
In 1887 G. B. Sowerby, in the Thes. Conch., vol. v., p- 
192, Sp. 8, pl. vi., f. 62, figures the form, which is validly 
spirally ribbed in the spire-whorls and obsoletely in the body- 
whorl. 
The rarity of the shell is evident from the fact that all 
the above references but two are to the single shell belong- 
ing to M. Jourdan. Its habitat was the very indefinite one 
of “Australia” and ‘‘New Holland.” 
In 1888 Mr. M. M. Maughan found an immature ex- 
ample on the beach of Moonta Bay, in Spencer Gulf. It was 
identified by Prof. Tate, who held the opinion very strongly 
that it had been transported thither in ballast. Mr. 
Maughan saw no ballast about the beach, nor did he at any 
time gather any foreign shells there, although he did much 
collecting in the Bay. But no second specimen was ever 
taken. 
In July, 1888, Mr. T. C. Watson, of Streaky Bay, South 
Australia, gave Mr. W. T. Bednall three specimens, the 
