322 



Locality. — Type in 62 fathoms north-west of Cape Borda, 

 10 good; in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 17 good and broken; 

 in 104 fathoms 35 miles south-west of Neptune Islands, 3 

 good, 7 fragments; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 6 good; 

 and in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 good. 



Variations. — There may be only three sjoirals in ea<?h 

 spire-whorl, with less numerous axials. It may reach 65 mm. 

 in length. 



Daphnella fragilis, Beeve. 



Pleurotoma fnuiilis. Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1845, 

 p. Ill, ''Hahifat~^~(.?Y' ; Conch. Icon., 1845, pi. xxi., sp. 179; 

 Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1880, p. 416, "Aldinga Bay 

 (Tate)"; Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 1896, p. 26, No. 10; 

 Pritciiard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1906, vol. xviii. 

 (N.S.), part 2, p. 51, "Western Port, Victoria, 7 fathoms." 



Pleurotoma lymneceformis, Kiener, Reeve, Conch. Icon.. 1846, 

 pi. XXXV., fig. 325. 



Pleurotoma lymneiformis, Kiener, Coq. Vivantes, p. 62, pi. 

 xxii., fig. 3; var. fragilis, Reeve, Tryon, Man. Conch, 1884, vol. 

 vi., p. 300, pi. xxvi., fig. 90. 



Dredged at all depths from 9 to 20 fathoms ; 3 from New- 

 land Head, westward as far as St. Francis Island, but not 

 in deeper water. 



Daphnella stiphra, n. sp. PL xxv., figs. 5 and 6. 



Shell fragile, short, biconic. Protoconch brown, of 4^ 

 whorls, the apical 1^^ with close spiral lirae, punctate between, 

 the rest latticed by the crossing of two sets of crowded oblique 

 lirse, whorls convex, sutures deep. Spire- whorls four, convex, 

 roundly angled just below the centre; sutures deep. Body- 

 whorl tumid, contracted at the base ; aperture obliquely oval ; 

 outer lip thin, simple, broken ; inner lip represented by a 

 smooth, glazed area; columella straight, barely concave; 

 canal short, open. Sinus at the suture, round, simple. 



Sculpture. — In the concave space just below the 

 suture are crowded very fine spirals, eight in the 

 penultimat-e ; below a prominent thread which bounds 

 this space are more distant and stouter lirae, two 

 in the first whorl, three in the second, four in the 

 third, eight in the fourth, and about forty in the body-whorl. 

 Axial threadlets concave forwards to the prominent spiral 

 thread, and convex forwards thence to the suture, run in 

 the body-whorl over the base to the canal. 



Dim. — Length, 8'5 mm. ; breadth, 4 ram. 



Locality. — Type 300 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, dead; in 15 

 fathoms off Wallaroo, 1 moderate. 



