344 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
ASPERDAPHNE VESTALIS Hedley. 
(Figure 13.) 
Daphnella vestalis Hedley, Mem. Austr. Mus., iv., 
1903, p. 390, fig. 105. 
Hemipleurotoma vestalis Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. 
8.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 295. 
Hab. N.S. Wales :— 41 to 50 fathoms, Cape 
Three Points (type); 24 fathoms, Port Stephens ; 
50 to 52 fathoms, Botany Heads (‘“ Thetis’’). 
South Australia:—104 fathoms, Neptune Island 
(Verco). 
ASPERDAPHNE WALCOTH Sowerby. 
Drillia walcotce Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1893, p. 487, pl. xxxvili., figs. 
7, 8. Id. Sowerby, Proc. Malae. Soe., ii., 1896, p. 24. 
Clathurella walcote Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc. $.A., xxxiii., 1909, p. 307. 
Hab. South Australia:—Spencers Gulf (type); MacDonnell Bay 
(Adcock); 20 fathoms, Backstairs Passage; 40 fathoms, Beachport ; 
beach, St. Francis Island (Verco). 
PSEUDODAPHNELLA Boettger. 
Pseudodaphnella Boettger, Nachr. Malak. Gesell., xxvii., 1895, p.58. Type 
Plewrotoma philippinensis Reeve, 1843. 
Kermia Oliver, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xlvi., 1914 (1915), p.539. Type Kermia 
benhami Oliver, 1915. 
Oluthurina Melvill, Proc. Malac. Soce., xii., 1917, p. 185. Type Plewrotomu 
foruminuta Reeve, 1845. 
Though introduced more than twenty years ago, this generic name, 
Pseudodaphnella, has been refused recognition by most modern writers, 
who have distributed its constituents among Mangiliu, Clathurella, or 
Daphnella. 
The size is rather large. The colour may be various shades of brown 
or yellow, disposed often in dots on a white, sometimes opaque, ground. 
There is a small brown mucronate apex of two or three whorls, the first 
spirally engraved, the next with oblique lattice lines. The adult shell is 
netted over by elevate spirals and radials enclosing deep oblong meshes ; 
at the points of intersection are small sharp cusps. The aperture is wide 
and free from tubercles or plications on the columella side, and generally 
without a varix. Sinus subsutural, broad, and shallow. ‘There is no 
fasciole band distinguishable. 
The genus is associated with reef corals, and hasa habit of sheltering 
under loose stones between tide marks. 
