A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN TURRIDE—HBDLBY. 351 
Because its label had been left blank this species was formerly 
reported as missing from the ‘‘ Chevert”’ collection, but on a second and 
closer examination a type label was found concealed in the bottom of the 
box enclosing the specimen. By aid of the type thus recovered, and now 
figured, I can trace this Papuan species along the Queensland coast. 
Australian specimens are a little larger and slightly different in colour, 
and as the original description is rather brief, I add a description of the 
shells from Lady Elliot Island. 
Shell small, glossy, rather solid, subcylindrical, and constricted at 
the base. Colour white, with two narrow orange-brown zones, the first 
immediately below the suture and ascending the upper whorls, the second 
running above the basal furrow and ending on the varix. Sculpture :— 
The ribs are continuous and perpendicular, set eleven to a whorl, wider 
than their breadth apart; the spirals are four on the upper whorls, and 
nine on the last; of these two small coloured threads run close together 
beneath the suture, and are followed by three thick wide-spaced uncoloured 
cords on the periphery, then by a coloured cord of equal calibre; below 
that is a massive spiral, and lastly two small bead rows set close together 
on the extremity of the snout; the meshes on the periphery are rather 
deep, oblong, and translucent. Aperture wide; varix prominent, and 
much larger than the ribs; within the outer lip are four small denticules ; 
sinus small; canal short and broad. Length 6°3 mm., breadth 3 mm. 
Hab. New Guinea :—4 fathoms, Katow (type, “ Chevert”). Queens- 
land :—Lady Elliot Island (Miss Lovell); Facing Island, Port Curtis 
(Kesteven). Western Australia :—Cottesloe (Henn). 
PSEUDODAPHNELLA RETELLARIA sp. n0v. 
(Plate lvi., fig. 189.) 
Clathurella languida Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., 1876, p. 154 (not 
Pleurotoma languida Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., 1845, pl. xxix., fig. 257). 
Shell small, lanceolate, subturreted, thin. Colour dull white, with a 
few brown spots on the shoulder, and the apex brown. Whorls eight, 
including a protoconch of three and a half whorls. Sculpture harsher on 
the earlier whorls; radials narrow, almost lamellate, ending abruptly at 
the shoulder and gradually on the base, slightly oblique, widely spaced, 
on the last whorl fourteen and on the penultimate sixteen; these are 
crossed by spiral threads of smaller gauge, forming long narrow meshes, 
amounting to sixteen on the last whorl and to six on the penultimate ; 
fasciole flat, only incised by crescentic growth lines. Aperture ovate ; 
outer lip forming a small varix, ascending the previous whorl and enclosing 
a C-shaped sinus ; lip dentate at the margin and tuberculate within; canal 
short and wide. Length 6 mm., breadth 2°3 mm. 
From P. melanoxytum Heryier this differs by larger size, more slender 
form, and by a sculpture composed of threads rather than beads. 
Hab. Queensland :—15 fathoms, Palm Island (type); 5 to 8 fathoms, 
Murray Island (self); 20 fathoms, Darnley Island (Brazier). 
