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A NEW GENUS AND THREE NEW SPECIES OF 

 MOLLUSC A FROM NEW SOUTH WALES, NEW 

 HEBRIDES, AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By John Brazier, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., etc. 



*Clathurella (?) Waterhouse^, n.sp. 



Shell fusiformly turreted, moderately solid, yellowish white, 

 with a zone of double blackish brown nodes or spots on the last 

 whorl, similar blackish markings being occasionally apparent here 

 and there on the base and upper portion of the whorls; whorls 9, 

 the three apical quite smooth, the others slightly convex, longitu- 

 dinally x-ibbed and crossed with transverse spiral strii^, becoming 

 sharply and prominently nodulous upon the ribs; spire sharp, 

 apex light brown; aperture ovate, columella somewhat straight, 

 white, canal short, outer lip more or less broken, barely showing 

 any posterior sinus. 



Long. 13; diam. 4|; length of aperture 5 mm. 



Hab. — North Head of Botany Bay, New South Wales {Mrs. 

 G. J. Wnterhouse). 



I place this pretty little species provisionally in ClathureJUt as 

 the outer lip is broken, showing a very small sinus; the centre of 

 the last whoi'l with two rows of black nodes on the ribs termi- 

 nating on the second whorl above the suture; three similar rows on 

 the base but not so clear and distinct, large blackish brown spots 

 below the suture; the remaining whorls with a single row of 

 blackish brown nodes above the suture with the spots here and 

 there below. This interesting species was found by Mrs. G. J. 

 Waterhouse and her sons on June 11, 1896, under a large stone 

 at Botany North Head; the specimen was in the possession of a 



* Tliis species must now be referred to Canthuru-i. A perfect a<lult speci- 

 men from Port Jackson, west side of Vaucluse, recently found by my sou 

 and myself, has the outer lip crenulated, thickened externally and denticu- 

 lated within. Long. 15 ; diam. 5i ; length of aperture 6 mm. — 25 xi. 96. 

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