132 
Soc., London, 1867, p. 195, Port Jackson; Tryou, Man. Conch., 
1883, vol. v., p. 127, pl. xlix., figs. 4 to 6; Kobelt, Conch. Cab. 
(Ed. Kiister), 1897 (1892), Band iii., Abt. ip, p. 106, No. 84, 
pl. xv., figs. 15° to 18; Adcock, Handlist Moll., South Australia, 
1893, p. 5, No. 111. 
Columbella nux, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1859, vol. xi., pl. xxxv., 
fig. 227. Type locality—-‘‘Port Adelaide, New Holland.” 
Columbella badia, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasmania, 
1876 (1875), p. 151. Type locality—‘‘Swansea, East coast.” 
Columbella roblini, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc., Tas- 
mania, 1876 (1875), p. 1651. Type locality—‘Storm Bay, Hast 
coast.” 
The colour variations are very many :— 
A. Uniform dark-brown, only columella white. 
B. An additional brown infrasutural line. 
C. A brown infrasutural and a white peripheral line. 
D. Dark-brewn, spotted obscurely with white, the white 
columella sparsely blotched with brown. 
E. Like D, but with a white-and-black articulated infra- 
sutural line, and a peripheral spiral of white spots, varying 
in size and distinctness. The apex may be purplish, and the 
general colour purplish-brown. 
F. Like D, but with axial dark-brown flames, zig- 
zag at the periphery. 
G. Like A, but with dark-brown squarish flames or 
blotches, extending from suture to suture, or to a little below 
the periphery. 
Hf. With a white or more or less deep-brown ground 
colour there may be axial brown stripes straight, wavy, or 
becoming broken up. 
Pyrene tenebrica, Reeve. » ey 
Columbella tenebrica, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1859, vol: xi., pl. 
xxxi., fig. 204. Type locality—Unknown. (Mitrella), Tryon, 
Man. Conch., 1883, vol. v., p. 128, pl. xlix., fig. 9; Kobelt, 
Conch. Cab. (Ed. Kiister), 1897 (1892), Band iii., Abt. i.p, p. 
119, No. 99, pl. xvii., fig. 14; Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. 
Soc., Victoria, 1899 (1898), vol. xi. (N.S.), part 2, p. 202, ‘*Wes- 
tern Port’’?; Pace, Proc. Mal. Soc., London, 1902, vol. y., p. 143. 
[Cuming Coll., Brit. Mus., London (!).] 
Taken on the beach at Port Elliot and dredged alive in 
17 fathoms Backstairs Passage; identification confirmed by 
Mr. Gatliff. 
{ think this is only the variety D of P. tenuis, Gaskoin. 
Pyrene infumata, Crosse. Ais 
Columbella infumata, Crosse, Jour. de Conch., 1863, p. 84, pl. 
i., fig. 3. Type locality—Gulf St. Vincent. Angas, Proc. Zool. 
Soc., London, 1865, p. 166, ‘‘Under stones and amongst weed, 
Salt Creek, Yorke Peninsula’’; Tryon, Man. Conch., 1883, vol. v., 

