6 CHARLES HEDLEY 



Island, seems to be related, but is broader and has an extra keel on the shoulder of 

 the whorl. 



Thesbia, innocent, Smith 



Smith, Rep. Nat, Antarctic Exped., Gast., 1907, p. 4, Plate I., Figs. 1-lfc. 

 A single shell, Sound, twenty-five to fifty fathoms. 



Vermici/htria murmyi, sp. nov. (Plate I., Fig. 8) 



Shell solitary, small, solid, compactly coiled in about three discoidal whorls, the 

 last rising free for almost a third of a revolution. Sculpture : on the upper surface 

 three prominent equidistant spiral ridges parted by deep interstices. Aperture 

 circular, slightly lobed. Diameter of coil, 4'25 ; diameter of aperture, 1'65 mm. 



Several specimens, mostly young and fragmentary, from sixty to eighty fathoms 

 off Cape Royds. 



This species is closely related to V. icaitei, Hedley,* from off Sydney, but is 

 larger, more solid, has the spirals closer, and does not seem to develop variceal rings. 

 It is named in honour of Mr. James Murray, the Biologist of the Expedition. 



Odostorniopsis major, sp. nov. (Plate I., Figs. 9-10) 



Shell ovate-conical, subperforate, very thin. Whorls four and a half, rounded, 

 parted by deep sutures. Colour, white. Sculpture : on the second whorl half a dozen 

 spiral punctate lines, the remainder smooth, save for microscopic incremental 

 threads. Aperture roundly pyriform, outer lip thin, effuse anteriorly. Columella 

 flattened, expanded over the axial perforation and then sharply bent. Length, G ; 

 breadth, 4 mm. 



Type labelled " Bay, July, 1908 " ; another specimen eighteen to twenty fathoms, 

 and two more from sixty to eighty fathoms off Cape Royds. All alive. 



The genus Odostomiopsis was proposed by Thiele t for the reception of two species 

 from Kerguelen. To this genus should probably be referred Admete (?) limmmformis , 

 Smith,;}: also from Kerguelen. The appearance of the species suggests to me that 

 possibly it may be, like Stilifer, a parasite upon Echinoderms. 



Neobuccinum eatoni, Smith (Plate I., Figs. 11-12) 



Smith, Rep. Nat. Antarctic Exped., Gast., 1907, p. 1. 



Alive, abundant from five to sixty fathoms. The expeditions led by Dr. Bruce 

 and Dr. Charcot respectively have recently extended the range of this species to 



* Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., IV., 1903, p. 346, Fig. 72. 



f Thiele, in Martens Gast. d. deut. Tiefsee Exped., 1898-1899, p. 68 (1903); not Odontomopsis, 

 Blanckenhorn, Beitr. z. Geol. Syriens, 1890. 



t Smith, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., clxviii., 1879, p. 172, Plate IX., Fig. 4. 

 Wilton, Zoological Log, Scotia, 1908, p. 2, Plate XXIV., Fig. 74. 



