330 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSBUM. 
DAPHNELLA TERINA Melvill and Standen. 
Daphnella terina Melvill and Standen, Journ. of Conch., viii., 1896, p. 296, 
pl. x., fig. 43. Jd. Bouge and Dautzenberg, Journ. de Conch., 1x1., 
1914, p. 212. 
Specimens of this species from Funafuti were erroneously recorded 
by myself as Daphnella lymmneiformis Kiener.°# 
Hab. Queensland :—30 fathoms, Darnley Island (Brazier); 5 to 8 
fathoms, Murray Island (self). 
Veerrecota Melvill. 
Veprecula Melyill, Proc. Malae. Soe., xii., 1917, p. 188. 
This genus is distinguished by a slender fusiform shell, which is 
reticulated by radial and spiral cords, producing a sharp point at each 
intersection. The protoconch is tall and elaborately frilled, and the 
sutural sinus is deep and narrow. Type Clathurellu sykesii Melvill and 
Standen, 1903. 
Besides the following Australian species and the type two Indian 
species are included—Pleurotoma asperulata Smith, 1882, and P. reticulosa 
Smith, 1882, as well as V. cooper’ Mestayer, 1919, from New Zealand. 
VEPRECULA SCALA sp. 10v. 
(Plate liv., fig. 165.) 
Shell slender, fusiform, excavate at the base and below the suture. 
Colour burnt sienna, with a cream zone on the shoulder of the last whorl. 
A tall and narrow protoconch of four whorls, delicately radially ribbed, 
is followed by five adult whorls. Sculpture :—Spaced spiral cords over-run 
the ribs and form small scales on their summits, four on the penultimate, 
then three and two on earlier whorls; on the final whorl they extend to 
the tip of the snout, and number about sixteen; the radial ribs are closely 
packed above, and are more spaced as they descend; on the last whorl 
they decrease to six in number, and are narrow, erect, and oblique; they 
vanish on the base. Aperture:—Canal produced, and a little twisted ; 
notch sutural, rather deep and narrow. length 55 mm., breadth 2 mm. 
Hab. Queensland:—5 to 8 fathoms, Murray Island (type, self) ; 
10 fathoms, York Island (Brazier). 
ViPRECULA VACILLATA sp. nov. 
(Plate liv., fig. 166.) 
Shell small, acuminate, excavate at the base and below the suture. 
Colour buff, sometimes suffused with chocolate. An acicular protoconch 
of three whorls is followed by five adult whorls. Sculpture :—Deep square 
94 Hedley—Mem. Austr. Mus., iii., 1899, p. 476. 
