148 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



remainder may be mottled with opaque white and fawn, or upon 

 such a ground there may run interrupted spiral lines of chocolate. 

 Sculpt,ure : below the opaque shoulder band, about sixteen raised 

 spiral threads surround the shell and penetrate the aperture. 

 Length, 6 ; breadth, 3"5 nun. 



But for C. parvus, Pease, this would be the smallest of its 

 family. Pease has given little information of the Hawaiian shell, 

 but, judging from Langkavel's^ '^ figure, the Australian shell 

 appears to differ by a shorter spire, absence of radial scul|»ture 

 and presence of opaque ocelli. Pease's species is considered by 

 Pace^^ to be a member of the " Columbella dormitor group. " 



Hah. — Beach near Cable Station, al)Out fifteen miles south- 

 west of Cape York — type (Hedley) ; Prince of Wales Island 

 Froggatt) ; Murray Island (Hedley and McCuUoch). 



Daphnella versivestita, sp. nov. 

 (Plate xliii., fig. 33). 



Shell large, rather thin, elongate conic, earlier whorls angled, 

 last rounded. Colour cieam wiih a few irregidarly scattered pale 

 brown spots. Whorls nine, including a two-whorled protoconch. 

 Sculpture : the minute turbinate protoconch is finely spirally 

 grooved. In contrast to tids the tirst adult whorl appears with 

 a broad shoulder, beneath which are two conspicuous keels. 

 Fresh spirals arise l)y intercalation on the subsequent whorls, till 

 alternately larger and smaller, they amount to sixteen on the 

 penultimate. Behind tiie aperture are about twenty-eight spiral 

 cords of various sizes, sometimes with minor threads in their 

 interstices. On the second mature whorl, nine prominent radial 

 ribs arise, undulating the keels. After increasing to eleven and 

 maintaining their relative prominence for several whorls, the 

 ribs commence to fade on the antepenultimate, t\w,y disappear 

 from the last whorl. About the penultimate and last wliorl, 

 equal radials and spirals produce by intersection an evenly beaded 

 surface. The anal fasciole occupies a siielf on the summit of the 

 whorl and is scidptured by crescentic threads. Aperture ovate, 

 outer lip dentate from the revolving sculpture, inner lip with a 

 thin callus, at the posterior angle a slight sinus, canal short and 

 broad. Length, 23 ; breadth, 9 mm. 



^'Langkavel — Donum. Bismark, 1871, p. 32, pi. i., fig. 1. 

 »8 Pace— Journ. de Conch., 1., 1902, p. 421. 



