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on the base. But fossils of the same size as the recent shell 

 have quite similar weak, crinkled striations. 



Turbonilla brevis, Pritchard and Gat] iff". 



Turhovilla hrcris, Pritchard and GatlifF, Proc. Roy. Soc, 

 Vict., 1900, vol. xiii. (New Series), pt. 1, p. ISo, pi. xxi., fig. 4. 

 Type locality — "Off Rhyll . . . about four fathoms." 



Taken in Gulf St. Vincent, depth not recorded, maay 

 examples alive and dead. 



Donovania fenestrata, Tate and May. 



PI. xxi., figs. 8 and 9. 



Donovfoiia fcnrstrata, Tate and May, Trans. Roy. Soc S. 

 Austr., vol. xxi^■., 1900, p. 94. Type locality — East coast of Tas- 

 mania (W. L. Mav) ; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc, New South 

 Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 372, pl.\xiv., fig. 30. 



Dredged in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 10 examples; in 

 150 fathoms 1, and in 40 fathoms 1 ; in 130 fathoms off Cape 

 Jaffa 2, all dead (Dr. Verco) ; MacDonnell Bay beach, 1 

 (Dr. Torr). 



Obs. — The above specimens were identified by me from 

 examples sent by Mr. May, and later by him from his type. 

 I had already had the figures drawn as for a new species of 

 Trophon. The spiral lirse may be three, four, or five in 

 different shells. The colour may be wholly translucent glist- 

 ening white ; or wholly light-brown, with a white protoconch ; 

 or cream-coloured, faintly tinted brown over the base. The 

 dimensions may be — Length, 12 mm. ; width, 2'9 mm. 

 Length of body-whorl, 3*7 mm., just half as large again as 

 the type. 



Cominella torri, n. sp, P3. xxi., tigs. 10 and 11. 



Shell large, solid, elongate-oval, of six whorls. Proto- 

 conch absent. Sutures distinct, broadly, flatly margined. 

 Whorls convex, roundly shouldered above the middle. Body- 

 whorl longer than the spire, base contracted. Aperture 

 obliquely axially narrowly elliptical, with a moderate oblique 

 sinistral open canal, somewhat recurved and notched; a nar- 

 row gutter at the suture, which slightly ascends. Outer lip 

 simple, thin, rather effuse from its centre to the notch. Inner 

 lip well marked, callous, smooth, and polished, complete 

 from above the posterior gutter nearly to the notch, some- 

 what spreading, thickest about the columella ; this is straight, 

 obtusely roundly angled at its junction with the canal. 



Sculpture : broad, round axial ribs, wider than the 

 spaces, most prominent at the shoulder, not affecting the 



