246 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MDSEUM. 



IxyDISITOR STERRHCS ]V'lf.-!0)l. 



Fleurotoma sterrha Watson, Journ. Linu. See, Zool., xv., 1881, p. 426. 

 Id. Watson, Chall. Zool. Rep., xv., 1886, p. 305, pi. xxi., fig. 3. 

 Id. Hedley, Proc. Linu. Soc. N.S.W., xxx., 1906, p. 534. 



Brillia sterrha Schepman, Siboga Exped., Monogr. xlixe., 1913, p. 413. 



Plenrotoma torresitoia Smith, Zool. " Alert," 1884, p. 37, pi. iv., fig. D. 



Drillia torresiana Melvill and Standen, Journ. Linu. Soc, Zool., xxvii., 

 1899, p. 156. 



Drillia sineuftls Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 152 (not 

 Clavatula sinensis Hinds). 



This species is proposed as genotype of Inquisitor. A typical specimen 

 which I dredged in the Gulf of Caipentaria is 39 mm. long and 13 mm. 

 broad, with fourteen ribs on the last whorl. At Rat Island, Port Curtis, 

 Dr. R. Pulleine obtained a variety which is more slender and closely 

 ribbed, being 28 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, and has seventeen ribs on the 

 last whorl. 



Hah. Queensland : — 3 to 12 fathoms. Cape York (type of sterrhiis, 

 " Challenger "); 7 to 9 fathoms, Friday Island (type of torresiana, "Alert "); 

 Albany Passage (Haddon) ; Bowen (Haswell) ; Port Curtis (Pulleine) ; 

 5 to 8 fathoms, Mapoon ; Murray Island ; 15 fathoms, Palm Island (self); 

 13 fathoms, Cape Grenville (Brazier); between Cairns Reef and Endeavour 

 Reef (McCulloch). 



Inquisitor suavis Smith. 



(Plate xliv., fig. 37.) 



Plenrotoma (Drillia) suavis Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6), ii., 1888, 

 p. 305. Id. Dautzenberg, Proc. Malac. Soc, vi., 1904, p. 131 (not 

 Drillia suavis Hervier, Journ. de Conch., xliii., 1895, p. 141). 



Drillia prosuavis Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1903, p. 339, text fig. 103, 



not 102. 



A disputed point in nomenclature hei'e involved was tried by a 

 conchological jury. Though theiz' verdict differs from ni}- opinion, it is 

 here dutifull}' accepted. 



Hah. N.S.Wales :— 41 to 50 fathoms. Cape Three Points (" Thetis "); 

 24 fathoms, Broughton Island (Museum Expedition). Victoria : — Western 

 Port (Gabriel). 



Inquisitor taylgkianus L'eeve. 



Fleurotoma tayloriana Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1846, pi. xl., fig. 152. Id. 

 Melvill and Standen, Journ. of Conch., ix., 1898, p. 37. 



Drillia tayloriana Brazier, Proc Linu. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 152. Id. 



Boettger, Nachr. Malak. Gesell., xxvii., 1895, p. 6. Id. Melvill and 



Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1901, p. 440. Id. Hidalgo, Revist. Acad. 



Cienc Madrid, i., 1904, p. 334. Id. Melvill, Proc Malac. Soc, xii., 



1917, p. 159. 



Hah. Queensland : — 30 fathoms, Darnley Island (Brazier) ; 5 to 10 

 fathoms, Hope Island (self). 



