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equal black arms, due to a white wedge in the centre of a 

 wide posterior black patch. Another common peculiarity was 

 that the white concentric band inside, just above the articu- 

 lated dark and white border, had two radial extensions to 

 the margin in the postero-lateral regions ; and these, quite 

 marked in the shells irith the cross, were frequently distinct 

 in those without the cross, and enabled the species to be cer- 

 tainly recognized. 



Family COCCULINID^, Ball. 



Genus Cocculina, Ball. 



C. coercita, Hedley. 



Cocculina coercifci, Hedley, Records of the Anstr. Mus., vol. 

 vi., part 4, 1906, p. 289, pi. liV., f. 1, 2. 



Type loc. — 80 fathoms off Narrabeen, New South Wales; 

 also 300 fathoms east of Sydney (Hedley). South Australia, 

 one example at 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa (Verco). 



Family VERMETID^. 



Genus Vermicularia, Lamarck, 1799. 



V. Nodosa, Hedley. 



Vermicularia nodosa, Hedley, Records of the Aiistr. Mus., vol. 

 vi., part 4, 1906, p. 292, pi. liv., f. 8. 



Tt/pe loc. — 80 fathoms off Narrabeen, New South Wales. 

 Dredged, 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, many ; 150 fathoms 

 off Eeachport, one (Verco). 



Family TRITONID^. 



Genus Cymatium. 

 C. kampylum, Watson. 



yassaria kampijla, Watson, Jonr. Liiin. Soc. Loud., vol. xvi., 

 p. 594. 



Nassaria campyia, Watson, Chall. Rep., vol. xv., 1886, p. 405, 

 pi. xiv., f. 12. Type hcaiify, "Off Sydney, 410 fathoms, green 

 mud." Lampusia nodocostata, Tate &: May, Trans. Roy. Soc, 

 S. Austr., 1900, vol. xxiv., p. 90; type localihj, east coast of Tas- 

 mania, 2 examples (W. L. May),; also Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 355, pi. xxiii., fig. 2; Loforium nodocos- 

 tafiiin, Tate d' May, Kesteven, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1902, 

 vol. xxvii., pp. 463, 479, f. 1, 4; Cyniatium l-ampyja, Watson, 

 Hedley, Records of the Austr. Mus., vol. v^i., part 3, p. 213. 



The species was taken by Mr. Hedley and others in 

 abundance at 300 fathoms, off Sydney, and with this mate- 

 rial he was able to identify the Tasmanian shell with Wat- 

 son's species. In my dredging off Beachport and Cape Jaffa 

 I took more than 750 examples, mostly immature, and all 

 dead. They ranged from 90 fathoms to 300 ; and were most 



