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Station : — Tlie uiuler surface of loose hoiildei's at low tide level. 



Hub. N. S. Wales: — 'Bottle and Glass Reef, Port Jackson (type, 

 Brazier); Botany Heads (Hargraves). Victoiia : — Western Port (Gabriel). 

 South Australia : — St. Vincent Gulf (Verco). Western Australia (Museum 

 Collection). Queensland: — 5 (o 10 fatlioiiis, Hope Island (self). 



DaPIINELLA CESTRl'.M ftp. UOV. 



(Plate liii., tig. 160.) 



ClathnreUa debili>> Braziei', Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 155 (not 

 Clavatula dehiJh Hinds, Zool. " Sulpliu?'," i., 184.4, p. 17, pi. v., tig. 16). 



Shell aciculai', thin, but boldly sculptured, contracted at the suture, 

 excavate at the base; canal pi'oduced and recurved. Colour pale yellow, 

 with two rufous brown zones, one above, the other below the periphery, 

 both interrupted by the ribs; columella lilac; apex salmon buff. Whorls 

 eleven, including thi'ee on the protoconch. Suture impressed, undulating. 

 Base defined by a sharp angle which continues the horizon of the suture. 

 Sculpture: — The fasciole area is without spirals, but is crossed by radial 

 crescentic wrinkles ; spirals may amount to twenty-seven on the last 

 whorl, those on the periphery being alternately larger and smaller; seven 

 of these ascend the penultimate whorl ; all of these over-ride the radials ; 

 the radials are thin, high, variciform riblets, perpendicular, discontinuous, 

 extending from below the fasciole to the angle of the base, and set at 

 eight to a vrhorl. Aperture: — Outer lip simple; sinus adjacent to the 

 suture, deeper than broad, rounded; inner lip with a thin callus; canal 

 open, produced, and recurved. Length 10 mm., breadth 3 mm. 



This shell differs from the figure of G. debilis, with which Brazier 

 had identified it, by fewer bolder ribs and excavate base. In sculpture it 

 approaches Daphiella elegayitissima Schepman,92 from which it differs by 

 the narrower form, hollow base, and produced canal of D. cetitrum. 



Hub. Queensland: — 20 fathoms, Darnley Island (type, Brazier); 20 

 fathoms. Endeavour Reef (McCulloch); 15 fathoms, Palm Islands (self). 



DaPHXELLA CHEVERTI .sy). 7WV. 



(Plate liii., fig. 161.) 



Daphnella plan'carinuta Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 159 

 (not PleHroto)iia plaricarinata Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1845, pi. xxii., 

 fig. 288). 



Shell small, thin, narrow-fusiform, subturreted, blunt at apex, and 

 attenuate antei"iorly. Colour ochraceous-buft", gradually becoming darker 

 towards the apex. Whorls six, of which tlu'ee compose the protoconch, 

 the last whorl rounded, the earlier ones angled at the shoulder. Sculptui-e 

 delicate. The radials are close thin lamellae which do not surmount the 



«-' SchepmHn— Siboga Exped. Moll. Monogr. xlixe., I^IS, p. 144, pi. xxix., fig. 8. 



