246 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MDSEUM. 
INQUISITOR STERRHUS Watson. 
Pleurotoma sterrha Watson, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool., xv., 1881, p. 426. 
Id. Watson, Chall. Zool. Rep., xv., 1886, p. 305, pl. xxi., fig. 3. 
Id. Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxx., 1906, p. 534, 
Drillia sterrha Schepman, Siboga Exped., Monogr. xlixe., 1913, p. 413. 
Pleurotoma torresiuna Smith, Zool. ‘ Alert,” 1884, p. 37, pl. iv., fig. D. 
Drillia torresiana Melvill and Standen, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool., xxvii, 
1899, p. 156. 
Drillia sinensis Brazier, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 152 (not 
Clavatula sinensis Hinds). 
This species is proposed as genotype of Inquisitor. A typical specimen 
which I dredged in the Gulf of Carpentaria is 39 mm. long and 13 mm. 
broad, with fourteen ribs on the last whorl. At Rat Island, Port Curtis, 
Dr. R. Pulleine obtained a variety which is more slender and closely 
ribbed, being 28 mm. long, 8 mm. broad, and has seventeen ribs on the 
last whorl. ‘ 
Hab. Queensland :—3 to 12 fathoms, Cape York (type of sterrhus, 
“Challenger ’’); 7 to 9 fathoms, Friday Island (type of torresiuna, ‘““Alert”’); 
Albany Passage (Haddon); Bowen (Haswell); Port Curtis (Pulleine) ; 
5 to 8 fathoms, Mapoon; Murray Island; 15 fathoms, Palm Island (self); 
13 fathoms, Cape Grenville (Brazier); between Cairns Reef and Hndeavour 
Reef (McCulloch). 
INQUISITOR SUAVIS Smith. 
(Plate xliy., fig. 37.) 
Plewrotoma (Drillia) swavis Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6), i1., 1888, 
p. 305. Id. Dautzenberg, Proc. Malac. Soc., vi., 1904, p. 131 (not 
Drillia swavis Hervier, Journ. de Conch., xliii., 1895, p. 141). 
Drillia prosuavis Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 1903, p. 339, text fig. 108, 
not 102. 
A disputed point in nomenclature here involved was tried by a 
conchological jury. Though their verdict differs from my opinion, it is 
here dutifully accepted. 
Hab. N.S.Wales :—41 to 50 fathoms, Cape Three Points (‘‘ Thetis ’’); 
24 fathoms, Broughton Island (Museum Expedition). Victoria :—Western 
Port (Gabriel). 
INQUISITOR TAYLORIANUS Iteeve. 
Pleurotoma tayloriana Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1846, pl. xl., fig. 152. Td. 
Melvill and Standen, Journ. of Conch., ix., 1898, p. 37. 
Drillia tayloriana Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 152. Td. 
Boettger, Nachr. Malak. Gesell., xxvii., 1895, p. 6. Id. Melvill and 
Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1901, p. 440. Id. Hidalgo, Revist. Acad. 
Cienc. Madrid, i., 1904, p. 334. Id. Melvill, Proc. Malac. Soc., xii., 
1917, p. 159. : 
Hab. Queensland :—30 fathoms, Darnley Island (Brazier) ; 5 to 10 
fathoms, Hope Island (self). 
