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RECORDS OF THE ACSTKALIIX MUSEUM. 



ASPERDAPHNE VESTALIS HedleiJ. 



(Figure 13.) 



Daphnella vestalis Hedley, Mem. Ausfcr. Mus., iv., 

 1903, p. 390, fig. 105. 



Hemiplearotoma vestalis Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 295. 



Hub. N. S. Wales :— 41 to 50 fathoms, Cape 

 Three Points (type); 24 fathoms, Port Stephens ; 

 50 to 52 fathoms, Botany Heads ("Thetis"). 

 South Australia: — 104 fathoms, Neptune Island 

 (Verco). 





Fig. 13. 



AsPERDAPHNE WAi,C0T^ Sowerby. 



Drillia walcotce Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, p. 487, pi. xxxviii., figs. 

 7, 8. Id. Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, ii., 1896, p. 24. 



Clathurella walcotoi Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc S.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 307. 



Hah. South Australia: — Spencers Gulf (type); MacDonnell Bay 

 (Adcock) ; 20 fathoms. Backstairs Passage; 40 fathoms, Beach[)ort ; 

 beach, St. Francis Island (Verco). 



PsEUDODAPHNELLA Boettger. 



Pseudodaphnella Boettger, Nachr. Malak. Gesell., xxvii., 1895, p. 58. Type 

 Pleurotoma philippiuensis Reeve, 1843. 



Kermm Oliver, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xlvii., 1914 (1915), p. 539. Ty[)e Kermin 

 henhami Oliver, 1915. 



Clathiirina Melvill, Proc. Malac. Soc, xii., 1917, p. 185. Tjpe Fleui nloncd 

 foraminata Reeve, 1845. 



Though introduced more than twenty years ago, this generic name, 

 Pseudodaphnella, has been refused recognition by most modern writers, 

 who have distributed its constituents among Maitgilia, Clathurella, or 

 Daphnella. 



The size is I'ather large. The colour may be various shades of brown 

 or yellow, disposed often in dots on a white, sometimes opaque, ground. 

 There is a small brown mucronate apex of two or three whorls, the first 

 spirally engraved, the next with oblique lattice lines. The adult shell is 

 netted over by elevate spirals and radials enclosing deep oblong meshes ; 

 at the points of intersection are small sharp cusps. The aperture is wide 

 and free from tubercles or j)lication8 on the columella side, and generally 

 without a varix. Sinus subsutural, broad, and shallow. There is no 

 fascicle band distinguishable. 



The genus is associated with leef corals, and has a habit of sheltering 

 under loose stones between tide marks. 



