350 RECORDS OF THE ACSTRALIAX MCSECM. 



seems to be more slender, with more whorls aud with closer and finer 

 spirals anteriorly. Cloth ajrella rufiiiodis von Martens, 1880, is much larger 

 and comparatively broader. 



Hah. Queensland: — Murray Island (self). 



PSEUDODAPHNELLA PCXICEA sp. nOV. 



(Plate Iv., ficr. 186.; 



Shell small, solid, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Whorls seven, in- 

 cluding a two-whorled pi-otocouch. Colour uniform lilac. Sculpture: — 

 Stout perpendicular ribs extending from the shoulder to the base are set 

 at thirteen to a whorl, about their own breadth apart ; the spirals are three 

 or four on the upper whorls, and nine on the last ; a bead occurs where a 

 spiral intersects a rib, and on the snout, where the radials do not other- 

 wise appear, the small close spirals are still beaded. Aperture wide; 

 varix massive ; four denticules within the outer lip. Length 55 mm., 

 breadth 25 mm. 



This species also extends to New Caledonia, whence it lias been 

 reported by several wviters^^^ an Clathirrell a hlanfordi Xevill. But that 

 African species is shown by Xevill's original Bgure ^"^ to possess a basal 

 furrow double the breadth of that of the Australian shell. 



Hah. Queensland : — Palm Islands (type); Two Isles and Rocky Isle, 

 ofE Cape Flattery (.self). 



PSEUDODAPHXELLA PUS IT LATA Amjas. 



(Plate Ivi., fig. 187.) 



Clathurella pusUdata Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 38, pi. v., fig. 14 

 (not Tleurotoma pustnlosum de Foliu, 1867). 



In the British Museum one specimen from Port Jackson, presented 

 by G. F. Angas, is marked as the type. 



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



PsECDODAPHXELLA EAMSAYI Brazier. 



(Plate Ivi., fig. 188.) 



Clathurella raviisai/i Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. X.S.W., i., 1876, p. 157. 

 Id. Hedley, Rec. Austr. Mus., iv., 1901, p. 122. 



A peculiar wide basal furrow groups P. raraxaijl with such species as 

 P. alha Deshayes, hloufurdl Xevill, cavernosa Reeve, leuckarti Dunker, 

 may ana Hedley, oliyoiua Hedley, spelceodea Hervier, stipata Hedley, and 

 tincta Reeve. 



105 Bouge and Dautzenberg— Journ. de Coneh., Ixi., 1913 (1914), p. 192. 

 J*'' Nevill — Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xliv., 1875, pi. vii., fig. 14. 



