304 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
ANACITHARA ROBUSIA Sp. 10V. 
(Plate li., fig. 122.) 
Shell small, solid, biconical. Colour dull white, apex pink. Whorls 
six, including the protoconch. Sculpture :—Ribs prominent, discontinuous 
from whor] to whorl, projecting at the periphery and gradually vanishing 
on the base; nine on the penultimate; very many and close spiral threads 
over-run both ribs and interstices; two spirals, larger and wider spaced 
than the rest, traverse the periphery and ascend the spire. Aperture :— 
The mouth is protected by a thick varix, from which a free limb, insinuate 
at the base, projects into the aperture; sinus semicircular; canal short 
and open. Length 5°5 mm., breadth 2 mm. 
Hab. Queensland:—4 to 14 fathoms, Albany Pass (type); 5 to 8 
fathoms, Murray Island; 5 to 10 fathoms, Hope Island (self). 
ANACITHARA STRICTA sp. nov. 
(Plate li., fig. 123.) 
Shell subcylindrical, blunt at either end. Colour uniform pale buff. 
Whorls five and a half. Protoconch depressed, asymmetrical. Sculpture:— 
Ribs slight and inconspicuous, their own breadth apart, those on the last 
whorl descending from the suture only to the periphery ; fourteen on the 
penultimate, and as many on the last whorl; these are dominated by the 
spirals, which are coarse, wide-spaced, and amount to eighteen on the last 
whorl. Aperture wide and unarmed; varix slight; sinus indistinct; canal 
short and wide. Length 4:5 mm., breadth 1:5 mm. 
Hab. Queensland :—17 to 20 fathoms, Mast Head Island (self). 
ANACITHARA TUMIDA sp. ov. 
(Plate li., fig. 124.) 
Shell ovate, thin. Colour uniform white, or white with narrow 
ochraceous spiral lines. Whorls inflated, six, including the protoconch, 
which is smooth, subdiscoidal, tilted to one side, and projecting over the 
next whorl. Sculpture:—Ribs broad and rounded, well spaced, discon- 
tinnous from one whor] to another, nine on the penultimate, gradually 
vanishing towards the base; both ribs and interstices over-run by fine 
dense spiral threads. Aperture wide; lip simple. Length 53 mm., 
breadth 2 mm. 
Hub. Queensland :—20 fathoms, Endeavour Reef (McCulloch). 
ANACITHARA UNDATICOSTA Reeve. 
Pleurotoma widuticosta Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1845, pl. xxxi., fig. 284, and 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845 (1846), p. 117. 
Mangelia wadaticostu Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., i., 1876, p. 161. 
This identification of the ‘‘ Chevert”’ shells is doubtful. 
Hab. Queensland :—11 fathoms, Cape York (Brazier). 
