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the spire-whorls, just above the suture, are distant, trans- 

 verse, oblong spots, about six in a whorl. 



Taken in lobster-pots off Granite Island, Port Victor, 

 three examples. 



Philine columnaria, Hedley and May. 



Fhilinc columnaria, Hedlev and May, Records Austr. Mus., 

 Tol. vii., Xo. 2, 1908, p. 123. pi. xxiv., figs. 2o. 26. Tt/pc locality 

 — 100 fathoms, off Cape Pillar. Tasmania. 



Dredged dead, in poor condition off Beachport in 40 

 fathoms, 1; in 100 fathoms, 2; in 110 fathoms, 5: in 200 

 fathoms, 6 : off Cape Jaffa in 130 fathoms, 3. It was iden- 

 tified by Mr. Hedley from type. 



Some specimens show two spiral bands, one about the 

 middle of the shell, the other about halfway between this 

 and the apex, less opaque than the rest of the shell, and 

 are sometimes constricted along these lines and swollen be- 

 tween. Mr. Hedley says the Cape Pillar individuals showed 

 the same variation. 



Philine beachportensis, n. sp. PI. xx., figs. 1, 2, and 3. 



Shell milk-white, ovate. Apex sunken. Vertex with 

 a triangular callus projecting from the inner lip : from the 

 apex of the callus a lamina borders the back of the aper- 

 ture, and a second runs round the middle of the apical pit 

 to the outer lip, the two enclosing a gutter narrowing out- 

 wardly. 



Aperture wide in front, narrow behind, with a narrow 

 posterior sinus. Outer lip simple, thin, straightly-convex in 

 profile ; basal lip uniformly curved ; columella concave : inner 

 lip M'ith a defined, well-spread glaze, ending behind in the 

 callus. 



Sculpture. — Crowded, fiat, spiral lir^, separated by in- 

 cisions, widest in the central half, more crowded towards 

 the base, most crowded in the posterior fourth. Very crowd- 

 ed, fine accremental striae cross the spirals and distinctly 

 punctate the incisions. 



Dim. — Length, 18'2 mm. ; breadth, 8*1 mm. 



Locality. — Type in 200 fathoms off Beachport, Vvdth 8 

 smaller; 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 16; 300 fathoms, 5, all 

 dead. 



Philine evoluta, n. sp. PI. xx., figs. 8 and 9. 



Shell small, thin, milky-white, short, subquadrate. Ver- 

 tex very little narrowed, not umbilicated, showing three-quar- 

 ters of a whorl. Surface fiatly convex. 



Aperture very wide, widely sinused above. Outer lip 



