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Hah. Princess Charlotte Bay, North East Australia, 13 

 fathoms, coarse sand and mud bottom, specimens white. Cape 

 Grenville, North East Australia, 20 fathoms, white sand and mud 

 bottom, specimens pink or flesh colour. Cape York, North Coast 

 of Australia, 11 fathoms, coarse sand and broken shells, specimens 

 white. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 20 to 30 fathoms, coarse 

 sand and mud, specimens pink ; few white specimens found. Bet 

 Island, Torres Straits, 11 fathoms, coral bottom in company with 

 young Meleagrina margaritifera, Linn. Three specimens obtained, 

 white. Katow, South Coast of New Guinea, 4 fathoms, bottom 

 mud ; specimens white, few obtained. 



35, — Clathurella tricolor, n. sp. 



Shell ovate, spire acuminated, transversely elevately striated, 

 longitudinally ribbed, interstices minutely granulated, blue-black, 

 ornamented with a white band round the centre of the last whorl, 

 continuous to the suture, whorls 7, slightly convex, centre with 

 yellow grains, above and below dirty blue, sinus narrow, shallow, 

 canal very short, outer lip strongly crenulated, columellar slightly 

 interior of aperture blackish with white band showing. 



Length 4 lines, breadth 1| line. 



Hah. Palm Island, North East Coast of Australia (Brazier). 

 Three specimens found on the reef under a block of coral. 



36. — Daphnella subula. 



Plevrotoma subula, Reeve. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 113. 



„ „ „ Conch. Icon., pi. 24, sp. 211. 



Hah. Darnley Island, Torres Straits ; 8 fathoms, mud. 



37. — Daphnella ornata. 



Daphnella ornata, Hinds. Moll. Voyage Sulphur, p. 25, pi. 7, 



fig. 221. 



Pleurotoma ornata, Peeve. Conch. Icon., pi. 24, sp. 209. 



Hah. Darnley Island, Torres Straits ; 20 fathoms, sandy mud. 



