276 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
HPREMA CAPELLATA sp. nov. 
(Plate xlvii., fig. 72.) 
Shell rather thin and light, biconical, turreted, and sharply angled 
at the shoulder. Colour buff, with rufous stains on the columella, the lip 
insertion, and along the suture. Whorls eight, including the protoconch, 
which has two small smooth whorls, and a third larger depressed and 
crossed by sharp arched riblets. Sculpture:—The adult whorls carry 
discontinuous prominent spaced ribs, which arise at the suture and 
continue to the base, those ou the spire being perpendicular and set 
closer together, at the rate of ten to a whorl, those on the last whorl 
being wider spaced at eight to a whorl, and flexed forward below the 
shoulder; these cords gradually become smaller and closer; the whole 
shell is over-run by very fine and close hair-lines which, decussated by a 
corresponding spiral sculpture, produces a fine grammed surface. Aperture 
wide, protected by a prominent varix; sinus wide and shallow; canal short 
and open. Length 9 mm., breadth 3 mm. 
Hub. Queensland :—8 fathoms, Weary Bay (self). 
HTREMA CATAPASTA sp). 100. 
(Plate xlvu., fig. 73.) 
Shell small, ovate-lanceolate, with rounded whorls. Colour orange, 
with a white median zone. Whorls eight, including a protoconch of three 
whorls, and of the usual pattern. Sculpture :—On the last whorl are 
twelve spirals, the anterior ones being fine threads on the snout, and the 
median ones represented by crescentic beads on the riblets; there are four 
spirals on the penultimate; radials discontinuous and perpendicular, 
amounting to twelve on the last whorl. A prominent varix extends a free 
limb towards the aperture; within it are five small tubercles; the pillar 
lip has two transverse plaits ; canal short; sinus broad and effuse. Length 
5-5 mm., breadth 2:2 mm. 
H. catapasta may be briefly described as a miniature of H. opsimathes 
Melvill and Standen,’° with which it closely corresponds in sculpture and 
colour, but from which it differs by being a third of the length, having a 
whorl less, broader form, and more delicate sculpture. 
Hab. Queensland:—12 fathoms, Torres Straits (type, Brazier) ; 
Lady Elliot Island (Miss Lovell); 10 fathoms, Van Diemens Inlet, Gulf 
of Carpentaria (self). Papua:—Katow (‘‘ Chevert”’). 
HirREMA CULMBA n. sp. 
(Plate xlvii., figs. 74, 75.) 
Shell rather large for the genus, solid, elevated, and tapering. Colour 
buff, with salmon-orange between the ribs and on the base. Whorls 
rounded, ten, including a two-whorled protoconch. Sculpture :—Discon- 
tinuous radial ribs, which take the form of oblique, broad, widely spaced 
70 Melvill and Standen—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), xii., 1908, p. 314, pl. 
xxil., fig. 19. 
