325 



brown, or with square, distant brown blotches below the 

 sutures, or more or less indistinctly mottled with brown, and 

 with opaque white spots scattered about. 



Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent at depths up to 23 fathoms, 

 14 alive or good ; in 20 fathoms off Newland Head, 1 good ; 

 in 35 fathoms off St. Francis Island, 1 good. The South Aus- 

 tralian shells favour the hitnrqiiata variety rather than the 

 typical B. tasmanica: 



Daphnella lamellosa, Sowerby. 



C.latJiurella InmeUosa, Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 

 1896, vol. 2, p. 28, pi. iii., fig. 11. ' Type locaUUj—"GnU St. Vin- 

 cent (Verco)'' ; Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc, New South Wales, 1900, 

 vol. xsv., p. 725. 



Mr. Hedley, loc. cit., supposes it to be an immature 

 Daphnella tasmanica, Tenison-Woods, but the shape of the 

 labral sinus is quite distinctive. 



Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent up to 22 fathoms, several 

 alive and dead; in 15 to 20 fathoms off St. Francis Island, 1 

 dead ; in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 perfect ; in 104 fathoms 

 35 miles south-west of the Neptunes, 42 good and broken ; in 

 110 fathoms off Beachport, 1; and in 130 fathoms off Cape 

 Jaffa, 1 dead. 



Daphnella triseriata, n. sp. PL xxviii., tig. 8. 



Shell of 6 whorls, including the protoconch of 2 whorls, 

 with an exsert apex, closely spirally lirate. When viewed 

 from the apex, the contour of the spire-whorls is not uni- 

 formly curved, but polygonal, septangulate in the type. They 

 have a central angulation, provided with a stout, rounded 

 cord, and are constricted at the linear sutures. In the first 

 and second spire-whorls a smaller secondary lira arises above 

 the angle and another below ; in the third whorl another ter- 

 tiary and still smaller lira is intercalated above,- and another 

 in each interval below. In the body-whorl, below these, aris- 

 ing at the suture is a stout cord forming a second angula- 

 tion, below which the base is markedly concavely constricted, 

 and has about ten lirse, diminishing in size anteriorly. The 

 aperture is obliquely oval, narrowed behind. Columella 

 straightly convex. Outer lip thin, simple, crenulated, and 

 toothed by the spirals ; with a deep, narrow posterior sinus, 

 bounded on one side by the sutural lira, and on the other 

 by the nearest secondary lira ; in profile the lip is convex. 

 Very fine crowded axial strise, corresponding with the sinu- 

 osity of the outer lip, cross the whole surface except the pri- 

 mary spirals. 



