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being described as clathrata. The Australian and Torres Straits 

 specimens answer to the description and figure given by Mr. 

 Sowerby in the Conch. Icon. 



29. — Vanikoro Gaimardi. 



Vanikoro Gaimardi, H. and A. Adams. 



,, „ Sowb. in Reeve, Conch. Icon. pi. 2, sp. 9. 



Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sand, broken 

 shells and coral. 



30. — Vanikoro sp. ? 

 Hob. Off Katow, New Guinea. Half of a specimen was ob- 

 tained at the depth of 8 fathoms, sandy mud bottom. 



31. — Vanikoro semisoluta ? 



VanlJcoro semisoluta, Sowb., Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 3, sp. 24. 



Hab. Off Katow, New Guinea, 8 fathoms. I have some doubt 

 about this species being semisoluta, as the single specimen has the 

 back broken, but what remains of the fore part answers to the 

 description. 



Description of a New Murex, collected at Port Darwin, by Mr. 



W. Bednall. 



By John Brazier, CM Z.S., Cor. Mem. Roy. Soc, Tas. 



Murex (Pterotus) Bednalli. 



Shell whitish brown, ovately oblong, three varicose, varices 

 winged or expanded, slightly curved, dark brown, two in front 

 with squamose ridged scales ; whorls 8, convex in centre, 

 flattened towards the suture, with a small nearly obsolete tuber- 

 cule between the varices on the body whorl, the upper ones 

 having from two to three, encircled with numerous transverse 

 ridges, interstices with minute striae, spire accuminately 

 lengthened, varice on columella side, small and curved below, 

 tipped with brown ; aperture ovately oblong, white within, lip 

 rather thickened internally, and expanded outwardly into abroad 

 varice deeply grooved at the edge, turned back at the lower 

 part, leaving a passage between the recurved canal, which is long, 

 and rather wide. 



