CANCELLARIA. 65 



TeleocMlus gracillimum, Tenison- Woods (sp.). 



1876. Daphnella graciUima, Tenison-Woods, Pap. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1876, 



p. 106. 

 1879. Daphnella graciUima, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 



vol. iii. p. 226, pi. xx. fig. 10. 



Mr. Tenison -Wood's description of this species is as follows : 

 " Shell fusiform, thin, fragile, shining, whorls sis, gracefully 

 sloping, last longer than the spire, finely striate lengthwise with 

 irregular ridges of growth which become fine, close, and rounded 

 at the lip ; regularly and somewhat distantly grooved with rather 

 broad, flat, shallow, conspicuously striate grooves, one of which 

 is much broader just below the suture, which is distinctly 

 canaliculate ; apex obtuse and Natica-Wke ; mouth narrow, finely 

 rounded at the suture ; outer lip thin ; canal short, base of the 

 pillar finely and obliquely decussate behind." 



The general characteristics of the protoconch have been alluded 

 to in the generic description. The figure of the species given 

 by its author is a representation of a much worn specimen ; it is 

 deemed advisable, therefore, to refigure it (Plate III. Figs, \2a-d). 



Dimensions. — Length 25 mm. ; breadth 10 mm. ; length of 

 aperture 16mm. 



Form, and Loc. — Eocene : Muddy Creek, Yictoria. 



G. 4161. Four examples, shell of the adult. 



Presented hy John Dennant, Esq. 



G. 4162. Two examples, exhibiting the neanic stage of growth. 



Presented hy John Dennant, Esq. 



Family CANCELLAEIID^. 



Genus CANCELLARIA, Lamarck. 



[Mem. Soc. Hist. Xat. Paris, 1799, p. 71.] 



Shell oval, fusiform ; aperture slightly canaliculated ; columella 

 stnmgly plicated ; outer margin not reflected, crenulated. 

 Type. — Voltda reticulata, Linnasus. 



