304 



Z^iw.— Length, 14*4 mm. ; of body-whorl, 7*1 mm. : 

 width, 52 mm. 



Locality. — Type from 150 fathoms off Beachj)ort, with 

 1 other ; also taken in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 1 poor ; 

 in 104 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 4 good and 11 imma- 

 ture, all fresh; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 2 moderate; in 

 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 poor; in 200 fathoms off Beach- 

 port, 1 good. 



Drillia saxea, Sowerby. 



Drillia saxea, Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 1896, vol. ii., 

 part 1, p. 25, pi. iii., fig. 4. Type locality — "Gulf St. Vincent 

 (Verco)." 



The type was a bleached dredged shell. Specimens taken 

 since show an infrasutural spiral row. of brown spots between 

 the axial plicae, spirally elongate. On the body-whorl are 

 three faint continuous spiral brown bands, and very faint 

 curved axial bands. 



It is quite common as a deep-water form, and has been 

 taken in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 31, many quite fresh and 

 coloured ; in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 9 coloured, 30 dead ; 

 in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 19 dead, some of them fairly 

 fresh ; in 104 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 73, a fev/ fresh, 

 mostly immature and opaque; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 

 65, some quite fresh ; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 58, 

 opaque or rolled; in 150 fathoms off Beachport, 16 decolour- 

 ized ; in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 1 fresh, 6 dead ; in 300 

 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 29 opaque. Their habitat seems to 

 be from 110 to between 20 and 40 fathoms. 



Drillia lacteola, n. sp. PL xxvL, fig. 5. 



Shell thin, translucent-white, of 6 whorls, including the 

 protoconch of 2 smooth convex whorls. Spire- whorls con- 

 vex. Suture simple, narrowly margined. Body-whorl roundly 

 contracted at the base ; aperture elongate-oval, opening widely 

 into a short canal. Outer lip simple, thin, ci'enulated out- 

 side; with a deep rounded posterior sinus near the suture, 

 having a thickened and slightly erect edge, with a shallow 

 excavation anteriorly where it is pinched to form the canal. 

 Inner lip complete, applied, glazed, thin, thickened at the 

 back to meet the margin of the sinus. Columella nearly 

 straight. Spirals thin, seven in the penultimate, twenty in 

 the body-whorl ; faint accremental striae minutely roughen- 

 ing the sculpture. 



Dim. — Length, 4*8 mm. ; of body-whorl, 3*1 mm. ; 

 breadth, 21 mm. 



Locality. — Type from 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, with 

 22 others, good ; in 130 fathoms, 21 good ; also off Beachport 



