284 RECORDS OF THE ACSTHAMAN MFSECM. 



In this larg'e species the unusual depth seems to have produced a 

 thinner shell, in which the armature of the aperture is comparatively 

 feeble. 



Hah. Soutli Austi'alia : — 100 fathoms, 40 miles south of Cape Wiles 

 (type, self). 



ElRKMA SI'CRCA ILniilt;. 



(Platexlviii., 6^.86.) 



C'lavattda spitrca Hinds, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1843. p. 89. /</. Hinds, Zool. 

 "Sulphur," 1844, p. 17, pi. v., fig. 14. /-/. Semper, Vehr. Ver. 

 Hamburg-, ii., 1876, p. 202. 



Pleiirotoina qmrca Reeve, Couch. Icon., i., 1846, pi. xxxiv., fig. 312. 



(ilillihuxtoiaii t'/rnrrii Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, ii., 1896, p. 32. 



Lteiiardia spurca Schepman, Siboga Exped. Mouogr., xlixp., 1913, p. 434. 

 Id. Melvill, Proc. Malac. Soc, xii., 1917, p. 184. 



Mangilia spnrca Odhuer, Kung. Sv. Vet. Akademiens Handl., Hi., 16, 1917, 

 p. 58. 



Pletirotouia raca Reeve (not Hinds), Conch. Icon., i., 1845, pi. xxviii., 

 tig. 250. 



A specimen referred to this species, 125 mm. long and 5 mm. broad, 

 which I gathered in 1906, dead, on the beach at Cairns is here illustrated. 



H(dj. Queensland : — Cairns ; Forsyth Island, Gulf of Carpentaria 

 (self). Aiafui-a Sea. Northern Territory: — 32 to 36 fathoms, Port 

 Darwin (Coppinger). Western Australia: — 12 fathoms. Cape Jaubert, 

 45 miles W.S.W. (Mjoberg). 



Vai-. HuiiKRTl Suverin/. 



ClathureUa spnrrd Bi'azier, Pi'oc Linn. Soc N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 156. 



Flcarotuiiia spnrca Smith, Zool. "Alert," 1884, p. 39, pi. iv., tig. F.Fl. 



FlenratiiiiiAi liaberti Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, p. 487. pi. xxxviii., 

 figs. 11, 12. 



llali. Queensland : — Port Molle (Coppingei') ; 13 fathoms. Princess 

 Charlotte Bay; 20 fathoms. Cape Grenville (type) ; 30 fathoms. Darnley 

 Island (Brazier); 4 to 14 fathoms, Albany Passage; Boyne Bar, Port 

 Caitis (self). 



KtRKMA TOIMll.AlilA .v^i. iKiV. 



(Plate xlviii., tig. 87.) 



(Jlathiirdla dunata Brazier, Fi-oc Linn. Soc N.S.W., i., 1874, p. 155 (not 

 (Jlavatida dnnata Hinds, Zool. " Sulphur," ii., 1844, p. 22, [)1. vii., 



fig. 7). 



