340 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
ASPERDAPHNE CAPRICORNEA sp. 100. 
(Plate liv., fig. 173.) 
Shell small, lanceolate, contracted at the sutures; substance rather 
thin and translucent. Colour either white, buff, or pale pink above, 
afterwards turning to buff or white; three apical whorls always darker, 
usually brown buff. Whorls seven and a half, including a protoconch of 
two whorls. Sculpture :—Fine spiral grooves, crossed by still finer radials, 
ornament the protoconch ; the third whorl has a prominent keel on the 
shoulder, beneath which is a fainter spiral; on the fourth whor!] the radials 
first appear as eight prominent ropnd-backed ribs, crossed by two, after- 
wards three, spiral cords, forming deep meshes by their intersection; the 
ribs descend continuously and obliquely from whorl to whorl, but decrease 
in relative importance; the spirals multiply by intercalation till on the 
last whorl they amount to twenty-five, but there also they are insignificant 
compared to their initial stage; two or three of the peripheral spirals 
project beyond the succeeding fasciole; fasciole distinct, crossed by sharp 
thread-like radials. Aperture :—Sinus simple, rather shallow; inner lip 
with a slight callus; canal short and recurved. Length 4.5 mm., breadth 
2 mm. 
Hab. Queensland:—17 to 20 fathoms, Mast Head Island (type) ; 
5 to 8 fathoms, Murray Island (self). 
ASPERDAPHNE COMPACTA sp. nov. 
(Plate lv., fig. 174.) 
Shell small, rather solid, ovate-conic. Colour uniform buff. Whorls 
six, of which two compose the protoconch. Sculpture:—Protoconch is 
gradate, and coarsely, spirally, engraved; the subsequent whorls are 
rounded and excavate at the fasciole; radial ribs prominent, rounded, 
extending from the fasciole to the base, set their own breadth apart, about 
twelve to a whorl; the spirals are delicate threads over-riding the radials ; 
on the last whorl they amount to twenty-four, of which three or four on 
the periphery are larger than the rest; fasciole sharply sculptured by 
erescentic lamelle. Aperture imperfect in my material; sinus sutural, 
and of moderate depth. Length 6:5 mm., breadth 3 mm. 
This species is broader and more harshly sculptured than A. desalesiv. 
It is nearer to A. legrundi, but the apex is not so sharp, and the radial 
ribs of the last whorl are less prominent and more numerous. In error I 
have recorded 10! this as Daphnella sculptior. 
Hab. N.S.Wales :—80 fathoms, off Narrabeen (type, self). 
101 Hedley—Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1907, p. 298. 
