SCAPHELLA. 117 



G. 9349. Four specimens ; one, of the neanic stage of growth, 

 possessing a perfect protoconch ; another, an example of the 

 senile stage, having subsidiary folds on the columella. Purchased. 



Scaphella (Eopsephia) pagodoides, Tate (sp.). 



1888. Valuta pagodoides, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust. vol. x. p. 176, 



pi. xiii. fig. 7. 



1889. Voluta pagodoides, Tate, id. vol. xi. p. 132. 



1895. Voluta pagodoides, Tate and Dennant, id. vol. six. pt. 1, p. 111. 



Protoconch similar to, but smaller than, that of S. sarissa, 

 though not perfect enough in the Museum specimens to enable 

 details to be given. The shell in the brephic stage is strongly 

 longitudinally ribbed. The aperture of this species is much 

 longer in proportion to the length of the shell than in that 

 species; the longitudinal costae are reduced to pointed tubercu- 

 lations on the shoulder, in front of which the last whorl is 

 depressed; longitudinal striae conspicuous, irregular, and undu- 

 lating. The author states that there are "four subequal, 

 equidistant, rather slender plaits"; but all the specimens seen 

 by the present writer have iive, the first and fifth being smaller 

 than the remainder, as in S. sarissa, the fifth (posterior) being 

 smallest of all. 



Dimensions. — Length 49 mm. ; breadth 15-5 mm. ; length of 

 aperture 28 mm. 



Form, and Loc. — Eocene : Cape Otway, Victoria. 



G. 9357. Examples of the young and adult. Purchased. 



Scaphella (Eopsephia) cathedralis, Tate (sp.). 



1888. Voluta cathedralis, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Aust. vol. x. p. 1"6, 



pi. xiii. fig. 10. 



1889. Voluta cathedralis, Tate, id. vol. xi. p. 131. 



Protoconch large, turbinate, granular at the commencement, 

 composed of two and a half turns, not pointed, sharply coiled, 

 longitudinally and spirally striated anteriorly, canaliculate; thus 

 slightly differing from the protoconch of either S. sarissa or 

 5. pagodoides. The shell is of the same general configuration 

 aa the last-mentioned species, but is narrower and the spinose 



