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RECORD? OF THE AUSTRALIAN MCSKCM. 



InQI'ISIToR MCLTILIRATTS Smith. 



(Figure 6.) 



Pleurotomn (Drilha) multiJiratd Smith, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., (4), xix., June 1877, p. 496. 



TJriUia multlliratii Hedlej, Mem. Austr. Mu.s., iv., 

 1903, p. 389, text fig. 102 (not 103). 



Herewith is figured a specimen from 300 

 fatlioms, off Sydney, wliich is doubtfully ascribed 

 to this species. 



Hab. N.S.Wales : — Port Jackson (type, British 

 Museum); 80 fathoms, 22 miles east of Narrabeen ; 

 300 fathoms, 27 miles east of Sydney (self). 



Fig B. 



Inquisitor petilinus sj). nov. 



(Plate xliy., fig. 36.) 



Shell lanceolate, sub-turreted, thin, surface smooth and glossy. 

 Colour buff-yellow, with two zones of raw sienna, the one subsutural, the 

 other peripheral. Whorls ten, of which two constitute the protoconch. 

 Prominent round-backed ribs, arranged at ten to a whorl,' follow^ each 

 other irregularly up the spire. On the upper whorls the spirals are 

 evanescent, and are represented by two or tlu'ee beads on tlie ribs. On 

 the last whorl there are about fifteen slight wide-spaced threads. Fascicle 

 indistinct. Aperture — sinus semi-circular ; lip simple, slightly bent in- 

 wards ; canal short, slightly I'ecurved. Length 12"5 mm., breadth 46 mm. 



Hah. N. S. Wales: — Jervis Bay (type, Brazier). 



Inquisitor raddla JJhuh. 



Pleurotoma radula Hinds, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1843, p. 38. Id. Hinds, Zool. 

 " Sulphur," ii., 1844, p. 16. pi. v., fig. 9. Id. Reeve, Conch. Icon.,i., 

 1845, pi. XXV., fig. 223. 



TJriUia radula Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 202. 7(7. Brazier, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 153. Id. Schepman, Siboga Exped., 

 Monogr. xlixe., 1913, p. 413. Id. l^Ielvill, Proc. Malac. Soc, xii., 

 1917, p. 157. 



T arris radnJa Cooke, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (5), xvi., 1885, p. 34. 



I. radula is closely related to the Sydney 7. metcalfei, but is shorter, 

 stouter, more solid, and more harslily sculptured. 



Hah. Queensland : — 20 ti) 30 fathoms, Darnley Island ; 20 fathoms. 

 Cape Grenville (Brazier); 7 to 10 fathonis. Port Cuitis ; 4 to 14 fathoms, 

 Albany Passage (self). 



