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Inquisitor latkrculatus Smverlii/. 



PlennitoniK hderciilata Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 253. Id. Sniitli, 

 Zool. Coll. " Alerh," 1884, p. 38, pi. iv , i\<^. E. Id. Watson, Chall. 

 Zool. Rep., XV., 1886, p. 303, pi. xviii., fig. 5. 



Drillln Jatercuhita Sehepinaii, Siboga Exped., Mouogr. xlixe., 1913, p. 408. 



Hah. Queeuslaiid:— 12 to 20 fathoms. Port Molle (Coppiuger) ; 25 

 fatlioms, west of Cape York (" Challenger "). 



Inquisitor .mastkusi linizler. 



Drillia mastersi Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 153. Id. 

 Hedley, Rec. Anstr. Mus , iv., 1901, p. 121. 



Plenrotoma (Drillia) essingtoneiisis Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6), ii., 

 1888, p. 303. 



Drillia essivgtonensis Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxxiii., 1908, p. 487, 

 pi. viii., fig. 8. 



The type shells of I. mastersi are immature ; being concealed in the 

 Chevert collection under an unpublished name, they escaped recognition 

 when I formerly examined the collection. 



Hah. Queensland : — 8 fathoms, Warrior Island, Torres Straits (type, 

 Brazier); 4 to 14 fathoms, Albany Passage ; 7 to 10 fathoms. Port Curtis ; 

 Mast Head Reef (self). Northern Territory :— Port Essington, type of 

 essingtonensis. 



Inquisitor metcalfri Amjux. 



(Plate xliv., figs. 34, 35.) 



Drillia metcalfei Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, pp. 113, 203, pi. xiii., fig. 16. 

 Id. Brazier, Rep. Austr. Mus. for 1881 (1883), p. 22. Id. Brazier, 

 Journ. of Conch., vi., 1889, p. 70. 



Plenrotoma metcalfei Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, p. 189. Id. Watson, 

 Chall. Rep. Zool., xv., 1886, p, 304. 



The type is a faded shell in the British Museum. This species varies 

 in size, colour, and sculptui'e. It reaches a length of 20 mm., with 

 nineteen tubercules on the penultimate whorl, and is usually dark chestnut 

 picked out with buff on the shoulder nodules. The operculum (fig. 35) is 

 unguiculate with a terminal nucleus. 



Hab. N. S. Wales:— Port Jackson (type, Angas); Port Stephens 

 (Brazier). 



