BY C. HEDLEY. , 191 



Atys pransa, n.sp. 

 (Plate ix., figs. 21-22.) 



Shell ovate, solid, smooth, glossy. Colour pale cream. Sculp- 

 ture : faint, spaced, incised, spiral lines, more crowded and con- 

 spicuous at either end, and obsolete in the centre. Aperture the 

 length of the shell; above pinched in a narrow loop, below 

 rounded; outer lip arcuate, bent and slightly reflected at the 

 upper and lower insertion; inner lip spreading, a callus on the 

 body-whorl. Deeply narrowly perforate above and below. 

 Length 5*0 mm.; breadth 2-55 mm. 



Hah. — Sixteen miles east of Wollongong in 100 fathoms; one 

 specimen dredged by Mr. G. H. Halligan and self. 



T y p e. — To be presented to the Australian Museum. 



Phos tabidus, n.sp. 

 (Plate viii., fig. 18.) 



Shell tall, slender, thin. Whorls six, slightly angled. Colour 

 grey, obscurely banded with reddish-brown. Sculpture : on last 

 whorl twenty sharp but low radial plications which commence at 

 the sutures and gradually vanish on the base. Both plications 

 and interstices are crossed by regular, evenly spaced, spiral cords, 

 of which the last whorl has twenty, five of which run between 

 the suture and the angle. This sculpture is continued on the 

 earlier whorls, and fades away gradually at the protoconch, which 

 is large, dome-shaped, of two whorls, smooth and glossy. Aper- 

 ture ovate, outer lip simple; canal short, bent to the left. Colu- 

 mella much arched, overlaid by a callus sheet, its lower extremity 

 furrowed by a deep spiral groove. Length 1 2 mm. ; breadth 5 mm. 

 The specimen here described is immature. 



Hab. — Sixteen miles east of Wollonojons; in 100 fathoms; a few 

 imperfect specimens dredged by Mr. G. H. Halligan and self. 



Type. — To be presented to the Australian Museum. 



This species is assigned to the genus Phos, in accordance with 

 the views of the late Prof. Tate.^' I am not satisfied that this 



* These Proceedings, xxvi. p. 454. 



