A RKVTSIOX OK TlIK ArSTi; A I.IAN lll.'Kin.K — II K IH.KY. 337 



NiCl'OTIM.A MIN'tlTA Ti'llixim-Wimls. 



I>rilli<( miiiutii Tenison-Woods, Proc. Ro)-. Soc. Tasra., 1876 (1877), p. 186. 

 IJ. May, Proe. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1902, p. 110. Id. llaidy, Pvoc. Koy. 

 Soc. Tasm., 1915,'p. 68. LI. Ti-yon, Man. Condi., vi., 1884, p. 210, 

 pi. xxxiv., fig. 98. /./. Pritcliatd and (latliif, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 

 xii., 1900, p. 172. 



DnpkneUa ni'ntnta Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxvi., p. 872, 

 pi. xxvi., fig. 28. . 



DnphiipJhi iitiiniri( Ynv. fii.-<cii Sowerby, Pcoc. Malac. Soc, ii., 1896, j). 27. 



Huh. Tasmania : — Bnuii Island (type); Ffed^rick Heury Bay (Ma}-). 

 Victoria: — Westei'u Port (Pritcliai'd). Sontli Australia: — St. Viucent 

 Gulf (Adcock). 



Nepotilla mimioa Sower by. 



DapJnielhi miiidca Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, ii., 1896, p. 27, pi. iii., 

 fig. 10. LI Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc Roy. Soc. Vict., xviii., 1906, 

 p. 52. 



BaphneUa minuta Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 326. 



Hah. Soutli Australia : — St. Vincent Gulf (t-ype); 90 fathoms. Cape 

 Jaffa; 20 fathoms, St. Francis Island (Verco). Victoria: — Western Port 

 (Pritchard). Tasmania: — 40 to 50 fathoms, Schouten Island (May). 



Var. .marmoeata Verco. 

 Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 827. 



Nepotilla triseriata Verco. 



DxphiieJIn triseri'atit. Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 325, 

 pi. xxviii., fig. 8. Id. Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 

 xxvi., 1913, p. 74. /(/. May, Proc. Roy. Soc Tasm., 1910, p. 308. 



Hah. Soutli Australia: — 100 fathoms, Beachport (type) ; 90 to 130 

 fathoms. Cape Jaffa (Verco). Victoria: — 40 fathoms, Ninety-Mile Beach 

 (Gatliff and Gabriel). Tasmania: — 40 fatlioms, Schouten Island (May). 



Nepotilla tropicalis sp. nov. 



(Plate liv., fig. 169.) 



BaphneUa excavata Hedley, Pioc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxxiii., 1907, p. 507 

 (not D. excavata Gatliff). 



Shell small, subscalar. Colour dull white. Whoi'ls four, of which, 

 one and a lialf form the protoconch. Each whorl spreads in a broad shelf 

 above, and thence narrows anteriorly. Sculpture: — On the last whorl 

 there are four, and on the earlier two, spiral cords, the topmost running 

 along the angle of the shell; the radials which over-ride these are thin 



