332 



off Cape Jaffa, 1 good and 1 very good, with a spiral row of 

 distant brown spots in the spire-whorl, extending round the 

 body-whorl ; in 62 fathoms north-west of Cape Borda, 3 very 

 good, 9 good ; in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 good ; in 104 

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

 110 fathoms off Beachport, 1 quite fresh, with some brown 

 staining in the middle third of the outer lip ; in 130 fathoms 

 off Cape Jaffa, 1 poor. 



These seem to affect deeper water than the type. 



Mitromorpha paucilirata, n. sp. PI. xxvii., tigs. 8 and 9. 



Shell elongate-oval, of 5 whorls, including a blunt pro- 

 toconch of 2 convex whorls, apparently smooth, but micro- 

 scopically minutely punctate from crowded spiral and axial 

 lirse ; the latter become more conspicuous just before the 

 abrupt termination of the protoconch ; suture simple, im- 

 pressed. Spire-whorls convex, suture distinct, bovinded below 

 by a round spiral. Body-whorl oval, tapering anteriorly; 

 base very faintly excavate. Aperture oblique, narrowly 

 oval ; outer lip thin, simple, corrugated by the spirals, con- 

 vex in profile, with a shallow, round sinus near the suture ; 

 inner lijD a glaze, thicker on the columella, which is straight 

 and forms a round, open angle with the slightly concave base 

 of the whorl. There are four spirals in the first whorl, five 

 in the second, and seventeen in the body-whorl, becoming 

 crowded towards the snout, about one-third the width of the 

 concave interspaces, which are well roughened (and the spirals 

 slightly so) by crowded fine distinct oblique axial lirse. The 

 spirals are opaque- white in colour, and are faintly articu- 

 lated with tiny brown suhdistant spots ; the labrum is brown- 

 stained outside. In some examples there is a row of brown 

 blotches in each whorl, running round the body- whorl to a 

 little above the middle of the labrum. 



Dim. — ^Length, 4 mm. : of the body-whorl, 2"3 mm. ; 

 breadth, VI mm. 



Locality. — Type dredged in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 

 with 17 good ones and 28 moderate : in 62 fathoms off Cape 

 Borda, 2 good ; in 104 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 7 good 

 and 8 moderate; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 1 good. 



It resembles M. angusfa ; but this is longer and has eight 

 spirals in the penultimate and twenty-eight in the body- 

 whorl. It differs from M. paula, var. leuca, in having fewer 

 spirals, more convex whorls, in an excavate depression below 

 the spiral which bounds the suture, and in the more convex 

 whorls and deeper suture of the protoconch. 



