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Drillia canccUata, Beddome, Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 New South Wales, vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 368, pi. xxiv., fig. 27. 



Drillia telescopialis, Verco, Proc. -Roy. Soc, South Australia, 

 vol. XX., 1896, p. 222, pi. vii., fig. 1, a, b, c. Type locality — 

 "Backstairs Passage." 



Drillia penfagonalis, Verco, loc. cit., pi. vii., figs. 2 and 2a, 

 1906, p. 298; Hedley, Records Austr. Mus. vi., part iv., "80 

 fathoms off Narrabeen." 



Mr. W. L. May, of Tasmania, writes May, 1897:— "I 

 have had an opportunity of examining tlie type specimens 

 of Mangelia cancellata, Beddome. There are a number of 

 specimens in the box, and they are very variable, ranging 

 from your D. telescopialis to I), pentagonalis. There are 

 several intermediate forms. I shoiild consider that M. can- 

 cellata came about halfway between your species, and that 

 they all belong to one very variable species, M. cancellata." 



Dredged in 20 fathoms Investigator Strait, 1 ; in 35 

 fathoms off St. Francis Island, 1 dead, brown colour ; in 55 

 fathoms off Cape Borda, several good ; in 90 fathoms off Cape 

 Jaffa, 1 perfect; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 1 perfect, 1 

 broken; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 perfect. 



Clathurella walcotae, Sowerby. 



Drillia walcotce, Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1893, p. 

 487, pi. xxxviii., figs. 7 and 8. Type JocaJity— "Spencer Grulf"; 

 also Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 1896, vol. ii., p. 24; var. pallida, 

 "from MacDonnell Bay (Adcock)." 



Dredged alive in 13 fathoms Spencer Gulf; 17 fathoms 

 and 20 fathoms Backstairs Passage ; and dead from 8 fathoms 

 upwards; in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 3 quite fresh. Taken 

 on the beach St. Francis Island, 2 good. 



The foot is about half as long as the shell, truncated in 

 front, pointed behind ; white ; the sole dotted abundantly 

 with small orange-brown spots, larger and darker along the 

 margins ; upper-surface with brown spots as large as pins' 

 heads, with a deep-purple-brown central dot, also at the 

 junction with the body ; muzzle dark-spotted ; siphon light- 

 brown, with small spots. Tentacles and eyes exactly like 

 Glyphostoma paucim,aculata, Angas. No trace of an oper- 

 culum to be found ; hence I have removed it from Drillia to 

 Clathurella. 



Clathurella philomena, Tenison- Woods. 



Clathurella philomena, Tenison- Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas- 

 mania, (1875) 1876, p. 141. Type locality — "East coast of Tas- 

 mania" ; Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, (1899) 

 1900, vol. xii., p. 177, "Victorian coast" ; Tate and Mav, Proc 

 Linn. Soc, New South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 371. 



