320 



fathoms off Beachport, 22 good : in 130 fathoms off Cape 

 Jaffa, 1 very good ; in loO fathoms off Beachport, 9 good, 

 showing the brown flames : in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 11 

 good : in 300 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 9 very poor. 



Daphnelia brenchleyi, Angas. 



Clathurella brenchleyi, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1877, 

 p. 37, pi. v., fig. 12. Type locality — ''Port Stephens." 



Daphnelia brenchleyi, Angas, Hedlev, Memoirs Austr. Mus., 

 iv., part 6, 1903, p. 391, fig. text 106, '"41-50 fathoms off Cape 

 Three Points, New South Wales." 



Var. vercoi, kSowerby. 



Daphnelia vercoi, Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 1896, 

 vol. ii., p. 27, pi. iii., fig. 8. Type locality — "Backstairs Passage, 

 6 to 20 fathoms." 



The type shell of this species is much more ventricose 

 and comparatively of more delicate texture than C . brenchleyi 

 from New South Wales, but shells retiirned to me by Mr. 

 Sowerby as cotypes are indistinguishable from the New South 

 Wales form in shape and sculpture, and have the same min- 

 utely spirally lirate protoconch, and grade into his type. I 

 am compelled, therefore, to unite the two. 



Dredged in 6, 9, 12, 15, 17, 20, and 22 fathoms in Gulf 

 St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf, Investigator Strait, and Back- 

 stairs Passage. 



Daphnelia eburnea, Petterd. 



Trophon ebiirneiis, Petterd, Jour. Conch., 1884, vol. iv., 

 p. 142. Type locality — "Tamar Heads"; Pritchard and Gatliff, 

 Proc. Rov.' Soc, Victoria, (1897) 1898, vol. x. (N.S.), p. 258, 

 "Western Port" ; also op cit., (1905) 1906, vol. xviii. (N.S.), p. 41. 



Tritonidea eburnea, Petterd, Adcock, Handlist of Aquatic 

 Moll, of South Australia, 1893, p. 4, No. 48. 



Cantharus eburneus, Petterd, Tate and May, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, New South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 357, text fig. 1. 



Tate and May shifted this species from Tro'phon to Canth- 

 arus, but Pritchard and Gatliff objected to this location, yet 

 felt doubt as to where it sliould be placed. I now suggest 

 Daphnelia. It has a closely spirally lirate protoconch like 

 several species in this genus, the delicate lamelliform axials, 

 which make a frill immediately below the suture, correspond- 

 ing with a small round sinus there, and has fine, crowded 

 spirals, and when alive is of delicate texture and comes close 

 to Daph nella brenchleyi, and especially to var. vercoi, Sow- 

 erby. The objection urged to its location in Cantharus, which 

 might be regarded as equally valid here, is its umbilicus ; but 

 is it not a false umbilicus ? It is absent from young shells, 



