Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

48 COLLECTIONS PKOM MELANESIA.This species has also been recorded from several localities inNorth-cast Australia by Mr. Brazier in his account of the MoUuscaof the ' Chevert ' expedition.25. Columbella scripta, Lamarck.Hah. Port Molle, Queensland, and Prince of Wales Channel,5-7 fms.C. versicolor, Sowerby, C. variegata, Menke, 0. hidentata, Menke,and C. tiyriaa, Duclos, appear to be synonymous with this species.26. Colimihella pardalina.Lamarck; Duchs, Monog. pi. 2. figs. 13, 14 ;Kiener, pi. 4. fig. 3 ;Reeve, Conch. Icon. figs. 75a-c.Hah. Port Molle, on the reef (Coppinger) ; Philippine Islands(Cuming).A single specimen from Port Molle is somewhat narrower thanspecimens from the Philippines collected by Mr. Cuming.27. Nassa coronata, Bruguiere.Hah. Port Molle, Queensland, on the beach.A single specimen from this locality is of a uniform light browntint, with a blotch of a darker colour on the back of the bodywhorl.28. Nassa thersites, Bruguiere.Hah. Port Denison, on the beach.29. Nassa algida, var.Reeve, Cdnch. Icon. pi. 22. figs. 145 «, 6.Hah. West Island, Prince of "Wales Channel, Torres Straits (Coj)-pinger).This pretty variety is not so broad a shell as the type, almostwhite, upon which colour the rows of squarish, light brownish spotsappear more conspicuous than usual. There are nine whorls, ofwhich the two apical are smooth and convex, the four succeedingones strongly ribbed and transversely grooved a little beneath thesuture, the furrow dividing the ribs into two unequal parts. Thethree last volutions are smooth, and a little more convex than thesculptured ones above. The length is 20 millim., and the diameterU millim.30. Nassa unicolor.Buccinum laeve sinuatum, Chemnitz, Con.-Cab. iw. pp. 54, 59, pi. 125.figs. 1194, 1195.Buccinum uuicolorum, Kiener, Coq. llv. p. 60.Bucciuuui unicolor, id. I. c. pi, 19. fig. 69.