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of the latter, and D. legrandi can scarcely be accepted. As 

 the type cannot be found, and the shell has not been figured, 

 it is preferable to ignore G . sculptilior and use the two names 

 which are certain for the two species. Tate and May are fol- 

 lowed by Hedley in Records Austr. Mus., vol. vi., part 4, 

 p. 298, 1907, who calls the shell BapJnidla xculplior [sic], 

 Tenison- Woods. 



Tate and May also make DaplineUa hitorquafa, Sowerby, 

 a synonym of this shell (Proc. Linn. Soc, New South Wales, 

 1901, xxvi., p. 446), but it is really a variety of 

 DaplineUa tasmanica, Tenison-Woods. 



Dredged at varying depths in Gulf St. Vincent and 

 Backstairs Passage up to 20 fathoms, 30 dead and quite fresh : 

 in 15 to 20 fathoms off St. Francis Island, 4 moderate, and 

 in 35 fathoms, 1 moderate ; in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 1 

 good and 4 poor : in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 4 poor : in 

 110 fathoms off Beachport, 5 moderate. 



Daphnella bastowi, Gatliff* and Gabriel. 



Daphnclla hnstoici. Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Rov. Soc, Vic- 

 toria, 1908, vol. xxi. (N.S.), p. 365, pi. xxi., figs. I'to 4. Type 

 locality — ' 'Western Port." 



Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent, depth unrecorded, 7 ex- 

 amples. 



Daphnella tasmanica, Tenison-Woods. 



Daphnella tasntanica, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc, Tas- 

 mania, (1876) 1877, p. 138, "Tasmania" ; Hedley, Proc Linn. 

 Soc, New South Wales, (1901) 1900, vol. xxiv., p. 725, fig. 21, 

 and xxvi., (1901^ 1902, p. 700; Tate and May, Proc Linn. Soc, 

 New South Wales, xxvi., 1901, p. 372; Pritchard and Gatliff, 

 Proc Roy. Soc, Victoria, (190-5) 1906, vol. xviii. (N.S.), part 2, 

 p. 52, "Western Port, about 7 fathoms." 



Var. hitorqiicda , Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soc, London, vol. ii., 

 1896, p. 27, pi. iii., fig. 10, "Spencer and St. Vincent Gulfs 

 (Adcock)." 



This shell varies greatly — (1) In shape. The whorls may 

 be quite round, or uniangulate or biangulate, depending on 

 the strength of certain spirals. Some examples are much 

 shorter and more ventricose than others : (2) in sculpture. 

 The spirals may be nearly equal all over the shell, or unequal 

 on the early whorls and equal on the body-whorl, or they 

 may be alternately markedly large and small. The axials 

 in some are as distant as the spirals, so as to make a square, 

 open lattice, or very crowded, and this either on shells with 

 equal and close or unequal and open spirals. In some the 

 large spirals are nodulated, so that the shell, looked at from 

 the apex, displays some ten or twelve angles, which may be 

 opaque-white; (3) in colour. The shell inay be uniformly 



