314 KKCORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Vai\ WILE.SIANUS, l-((/-. nov. 



More slender iu contour, and developinof spiral striae on the intei- 

 costal spaces of the upper whorls. 



Huh. South Australia: — 100 fathoms, 40 miles south of Cape Wiles 

 (self). 



Gdkaleus cuspis Soiverby. 



Maiiyilia cn^pis Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, ii., 1896, p. 31, pi. iii., fig. 17. 



Clathurella letoarnenxiana var. cnspla Verco, Trans. Hoy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 

 1909, p. 309. 



Hah. South Australia : — St. Vincent Gulf (type, Veico). Victoria : — 

 Dromana (Gabriel). 



CUSPIS var. CONNKCTENS Sowerbi/. 



Maiujelia cuiuiectens Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, ii., 1896, p. 30, pi. iii., 

 fig. 14. Id. Verco, Tians. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 316. 



Hah. South Australia: — 20 fathoms, St. Vincent Gulf (type); 55 

 fathoms, CapeBorda; 15 fathoms, St. Francis Island (Verco). Tasmania: — 

 Derwent Estuary (May). 



GURALEUS FASCINUS sp. UOV. 



(Plate lii., tig. 141.) 



Shell elongate-fusiform ; the last wlioil about half of total length; 

 whorls angled at the shoulder. Colour : — The ty[)e is cream-buff mono- 

 chrome ; anotiier specimen is biowu-buff, with a pale band on tiie base, 

 and another on the anterior extremity, and with every fourth spiral paler 

 than the rest ; another specimen is white, with an orange-brown zone on 

 the base. Whorls eight, including a three-whorled protoconch ; sutures 

 linear. Sculpture: — Conspicuous ribs descend continuously from whorl 

 to whorl at the rate of twelve to the y)enultimate ; on the last whorl 

 the ribs become gradually smaller, and vanish on the base; the whole 

 surface is over-iun by minute^ closely-packed, even, sharp spiral thieads. 

 Aperture: — Mouth rathei- wide; outer lip with a low varix and a thin 

 expanded free edge, which is insinuate at the base; canal short; sinus 

 wide and shallow. Length 9 mm., breadth 4 mm. 



Hdh. N. S.Wales: — Port Jackson (type, self); 18 fathoms, between 

 Balls Head and Goat Island, Port Jackson (Brazier). 



GURALEUS FASCINUS var. STEPUEXENSIS var. nor. 

 (Plate Hi., fig. 142.) 

 Larger than the type, with fewer radials, and orange on the base. 

 Hah. N.S.Wales: — Port Stephens (Brazier). 



