230 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Epideira quoyi Des Moulins. 



" Une espece avec des taclies quadrilateres pres des sutures," Quoj aud 

 Gaimard, Zool. Astrolabe, ii., 1833, p. 525. 



Pleurotoma monile Kiener, Coq. Viv., 1840, p. 52, pi. xv., fig. 3. 



Clavatula monile Tryon, Man. Conch., vi., 1884, p. 232, pi. vii., fig. 96 (not 

 Pleurotoma monile Brocchi, Conch, foss. snbapenu., ii., 1814, p. 432). 



Pleurotoma quoyi nom. mnt. Des Moulins, Act. Soc. Linu. Botdeaux, xii., 

 1842, p. 167. Id. Weinkauff, Conch. Cab., 1876, p. 101, pi. xxii., 

 fig. 2. Id. Wat.son, Chall. Rep. Zool., xv., 1886, p. 304. 



Drillia quoyi Pritchai'd and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xii., 1900, p. 170. 



This smooth species has been confused by Reeve and subsequent 

 writers vrith another form (E. philipineri), beaded along the suture and 

 beneath the fasciole. 



Hub. Victoria : — Western Port (type, Astrolabe) ; Apollo Bay, War- 

 nambool (Pritchard). Tasmania: — 38 to 40 fathoms, off East Moncoenr 

 Island (" Challenger "). 



Epideira schoctanica May. 



Drillia schoutanica May, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1910 (1911), p. 391, 

 pi. xiv., fig. 17. Id. Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., xxvi., 

 1913, p. 73. 



Hub. Tasmania : — 80 fathoms, Schouten Island (tj'pe. May) ; Bass 

 Strait ("Endeavour"). South Australia: — 365 fathoms. Cape Martin 

 (self). 



Epideira striata Gray. 



(Plate xliii., figs. 18, 19, 20.) 



Clavatula striata Gray, King's Survey, ii., 1827, Appendix p. 485. 



Pleurotoma oiveuii Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1843, pi. ix., fig. 70. Id. Wein- 

 kauff, Couch. Cab. 1876, p. 98, pi. xxi., fig. 5. Id. Watson, Chall. 

 Zool. Rep., XV., 1886, p. 312. 



Drillia oioeni Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1876, p. 202. 



Surcula oiveni Brazier, Journ. of Conch., vi., 1889, p. 70. 



Hub. N.S.Wales :— 2 to 10 fathoms, Port Jackson (" Challenger "); 

 Ballina (self). 



Epideira torquata sp. nov. 



(Plate xliii., fig. 21.) 



Pleurotoma philipineri Tryon, Man. Conch., vi., 1884, p. 167, pi. xxxiv., 

 fig. 82. Id. Kobelt, Couch. Cab., 1887, p. 227, pi. xii., fig. 17 (not 

 Pleurotoma 2)hilipi)ieri Tenison Woods). 



Shell small; ovate-lanceolate; iurreted. Colour ochraceous-yellow, 

 irregularly spotted with white. On the subsutural ridge are large square 

 spots, sjjaced at six to a whorl, and alternating with dark chestnut spots. 

 Whorls seven and a half. Suture impressed. Protoconch of a whorl and 



