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NEPOTILLA MINUTA T'enison- Woods. 
Drillia minuta Tenison- Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1876 (1877), p. 136. 
Id. May, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1902, p.110. Jd. Hardy, Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Tasm., 1915, p. 68. Jd. Tryon, Man. Conch., vi., 1884, p. 210, 
pl. xxxiv., fig. 93. Id. Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., 
xii., 1900, p. 172. 
Daphnella minuta Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxvi., p. 372, 
pl. xxvi., fig. 28. 
Daphnella mimica var. fuscw Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc., ii., 1896, p. 27. 
Hub. Tasmania :—Bruni Island (type); Frederick Henry Bay (May). 
Victoria:— Western Port (Pritchard). South Australia:— St. Vincent 
Gulf (Adcock). 
Neporinta mimica Sowerby. 
Daphnella mimica Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soce., ii., 1896, p. 27, pl. ii1., 
fig. 10. Id. Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., xviii., 1906, 
p. 52. 
Daphnella minuta Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. 8.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 326. 
Hab. South Australia :—St. Vincent Gulf (type); 90 fathoms, Cape 
Jaffa; 20 fathoms, St. Francis Island (Verco). Victoria:—Western Port 
(Pritchard). Tasmania :—40 to 50 fathoms, Schouten Island (May). 
Var. MARMORATA Verco. 
Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. $.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 327. 
NEPOTILLA TRISERIATA Verco. 
Daphnellu triseriata Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. §.A., xxxii., 1909, p. 325, 
pl. xxvill., fig. 8. Jd. Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 
xxvi., 1913, p. 74. Id. May, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1910, p. 308. 
Hub. South Australia :—100 fathoms, Beachport (type) ; 90 to 130 
fathoms, Cape Jaffa (Verco). Victoria :—40 fathoms, Ninety-Mile Beach 
(Gatliff and Gabriel). Tasmania :—40 fathoms, Schouten Island (May). 
NEPOTILLA TROPICALIS sp. nov. 
(Plate liv., fig. 169.) 
Daphnella excavata Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxxiii., 1907, p. 507 
(not D. excavata Gatliff). 
Shell small, subscalar. Colour dull white. Whorls four, of which 
one and a half form the protoconch. Hach whorl spreads in a broad shelf 
above, and thence narrows anteriorly. Sculpture:—On the last whorl 
there are four, and on the earlier two, spiral cords, the topmost running 
along the angle of the shell; the radials which over-ride these are thin 
