326 



Dim. — Length, 4'6 mm. ; of the body-whorl, 24 mm. ; 

 breadth, 2"4 mm. 



Locality. — Type 110 fathoms off Beachport, with 6 others, 

 good ; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 3 very good, and in 90 

 fathoms, 6 good, but small. 



Daphnella bathentoma, n. sp. PI. xxviii., tig. 3. 



Shell small, white, thin, of 5 whorls, including the pro- 

 minent conical protoconch of 2 convex elate whorls, with 

 exserted apex. Spire- whorls have a corded obtuse angula- 

 tion, with a slope from the upper suture, somewhat constrict- 

 ed towards the lower. Body-whorl with a second angulation 

 starting from the suture at the aperture ; below this the base 

 is rapidly concavely contracted. Aperture obliquely ovaL 

 Canal short. Outer lip thin, simple, biangulate ; with a deep, 

 narrow sinus at the suture with parallel margins; in profile 

 slightly convex to the front angulation, then concave to the 

 edge of the canal. Columella vei'y long, nearly straight. 

 When looked at from the apex the shell is faintly polygonal, 

 with ten angles in a spiral (in a cotype these are produced 

 into transverse sharp tubercles). A single spiral runs be- 

 tween the angulation and the upper suture, and in the body- 

 whorl bounds the front of the posterior sinus. Another lies 

 midway between the angulation and the lower suture. In 

 th'C suture, the second angulation of the body-whorl may ap- 

 pear as a sutural cord. This bounds the back of the posterior 

 labral sinus. Axials concave forward run from the suture 

 to the nearest spiral, then straight and very obliquely from 

 this to the first angle, then vertically to the next angle, and 

 are lost on the base ; they do not cross the spirals or stand 

 erect. 



Dim. — Length, 2'8 mm. : of the body-whorl, 18 mm. ; 

 breadth, r45 mm. 



Locality. — Type from 104 fathoms 35 miles south-west 

 of Neptune Islands, with 10 others good, all dead. 



Daphnefia minuta, Tenison- Woods. 



Drillui minuta, Tenisou-Woods, Proc. Rov. See, Tasmania,. 

 (1876) 1877, p. 136. Type locality— "Long Bay, Tasmania." 



Daphnella minuta., Tenison- Woods, Tate and May, Proc, 

 Linn. Soc, New South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 372. 



Daphnella (Teres) mimica. Sowerby, Proc. Mai. Soc, Lon- 

 don, 1896. vol. ii., p. 27, pi. iii., fig. lO! Type locality— "Gn\i St. 

 Vincent (Verco)" ; also var. fvsca, loc. cit. 



Daph7iella mimica, Sowerby, Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. 

 Roy. Soc, Victoria, (1905) 1906. toI. xviii., part 2, p. 52, ''West- 

 ern Port, about 7 fathoms." 



