SOME NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SHELLS — HEDLET. 149 



This is tiie largest of local Daphnella, D. fragilis, Reeve, ])Hing 

 next in size. From that D. versivestita is distiitguisliahle by the 

 strong radial ribs of the upper whorls. In the novelty the l)0(]y 

 whorl is about half, in D. fragilis about two-thirds of the total 

 length, 



Hab. — Botany Heads (type) ; Broken Bay (W. H. Hargraves) ; 

 'Port Jackson (J. Brazier) ; Newcastle (J Mitchell) ; Catherine 

 Hill Bay (R. L. Cherry); Woolgoolga (C Laseron) and Gerrin- 

 gong (R. Etheridge, Junr.). 



Latirus fischerianus, Tapparone- Cane/ri. 



Latirns /ischei-ianns, Tapp. Can., Joiirn. de Conch., xxx., 1882, 

 p. 33, pi. ii., tigs. 8, 9. 



Nassaria viordica, Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 xxxiv., 1909, p. 462, pi. xliv., fig. 100. 



Mr. J. C. Melvill in a recent review^'' of the genus Latirus^ 

 conjectured that Nassaria mordica would prove identical with 

 Peristeniia coraUina, Melvill and Standen. That he might 

 definitely decide the question I forwarded to him specimens of 

 the former. Having examined these he replied {8 = ix= 1 1) that 

 though N. mordica is distinct from P. coralliua, it is identical 

 with L. fischerianus, Tapp. Can. 



Latirus paeteliana, Kohelt, 



var. carpentariensis, var. nov. 



(Plate xliii., fig. 34), 



Shell slender, fusiform, canal long. Colour uniform ochraceous. 

 Whorls nine, including a smooth two-whorled protoconch. Ribs 

 broadly undulating, alternate vertically, vani'shing on base and 

 •towards the suture. Both ril)s and interstices over-run by low 

 spirals of which there are ten on the penultimate and about 

 thirty on the last whoil. Within the outer lip tiiere are a dozen 

 revolving raised threads which fail to reach the edge. Length, 

 34 ; breadth 14 mm. 



39 Melvill— Journ. of Conch., xiii., 1911, p. 168. 



