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St. WS 244. West of Falkland Is., 52 S, 62 40' W, 18 July 1928, 253-247 m. 

 St. WS 250. North of Falkland Is., 51 45' S, 57 W, 20 July 1928, 251-313 m. 

 St. WS 797. North-west of Falkland Is. to Patagonia, 51 06' S, 64 10' 30" W to 47 47' 43" S, 64 07' 30" W 



19 Dec. 1931, 117 m. 

 St. WS 801. North-west of Falkland Is. to Patagonia, 48 26' 15" S, 6i° 28' W, 22 Dec. 1931, 165-165 m. 



Range. Many localities around Strait of Magellan, 10-20 fathoms (Strebel); Port Stanley, Falkland 

 Is., shore (Melvill & Standen). 



The carinate form figured by Strebel (19056, fig. 296) was not encountered. The example from 

 St. WS 250 has finer and more numerous spiral ribs, fourteen on the penultimate, but eight to eleven 

 spirals is characteristic of the other ' Discovery ' material. Strebel's figures show a variation of between 

 five and nine penultimate spirals. 



This species is not dissimilar from the boreal genotype, and like it has neither radula nor operculum. 



Admete cf. antarctica Strebel 



Admete antarctica Strebel, 1908, p. 21, pi. 4, fig. \\a-c. 



Type locality. South-west of Snow Hill I., 64 36' S, 57° 42' W, 125 m. 



St. 170. Off Cape Bowles, Clarence I., 6i° 25' 30" S, 53 46' W, 23 Feb. 1927, 342 m. (one living example). 

 St. 175. Bransfield Strait, South Shetland Is., 63 17' 20" S, 59 48' 15" W, 2 Mar. 1927, 200 m. 



The St. 170 example is only 7 mm. in height compared with 11 -6 mm. for Strebel's type, but it is 

 a half-whorl smaller and evidently not fully grown. The weak shoulder carination is slightly stronger 

 than shown in Strebel's figure, but the number of spiral ribs is approximately the same. 



Admete consobrina n.sp. PI. X, fig. 63 



Shell small, thin, translucent with a pale buff epidermis ; ovate with a carinated shoulder. Spire less 

 than one-third height of aperture. Whorls about 4I, protoconch small, eroded in only specimen. 

 Sculpture consisting of distinct fiat-topped spiral cords with interspaces varying from linear to half the 

 width of the cords. The peripheral cord is strongest, and there are five cords above it and four below it 

 on the spire-whorls and about thirty on the body-whorl from below the carina. The columella is 

 a smooth vertical callus slightly flexed at the anterior canal and bears two very weak plications. Aperture 

 narrowly ovate-pyriform. Outer lip thin and delicately corrugated by the external sculpture. 



Height 9-75 mm. ; diameter 6-6 mm. 



Type locality. St. 159. North of South Georgia, 53 52' 30" S, 36 08' W, 21 Jan. 1927, 160 m. 



It is very similar to Cancellaria (Admete) carinata Watson from Kerguelen Island, 28 fathoms, but 

 that species has a smooth shoulder and only two spiral cords between the carina and the lower suture. 



Family TURRIDAE 



Genus Aforia Dall, 1889 



Type (o.d.) Plenrotoma circinata Daft = Irenosyrinx Dall, 1908 



Grant & Gale (1931, p. 508) have pointed out that there is no obvious distinction between Aforia 



and Irenosyrinx. Dall (1889) stated that Aforia was without an operculum but according to Grant 



& Gale (loc. cit.) it has since been shown to have one. The type of Aforia is from the Bering Sea in deep 



water and that of Irenosyrinx, Pleurotoma (Leucosyrinx) goodei Dall, is from north-west of Patagonia in 



1050 fathoms. 



Aforia magnifica (Strebel) 



Surcula magnifica Strebel, 1908, p. 19, pi. 2. fig. 2T,a-d. 



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