122 



Dim. — Length, 5*2 mm.; breadth, 1*5 mm.: another 

 example of thirteen whorls is 6'2 mm. long. 



Locality. — Type, 62 fathoms off Cape Borda, with very 

 many others ; and at 55 fathoms, 2 ; in 40 fathoms off Beach- 

 port, many : in 104 fathoms off the Neptunes, many. 



Diagnosis. — From T . smithiana, Donald, by the smooth 

 upper whorls and the more numerous and less valid spirals 

 in the later whorls; from T. kimberi, Verco, by the blunt 

 two-whorled protoconch ; from T. accisa, Watson, by its nar- 

 rower smaller form, its more convex later whorls and their 

 less valid spirals. 



Type in my collection. . 



Turritella opulenta, Hedley. 



Turritella opulenta, Hedley, Records of Austr. Mus., 1907, 

 vol. vi., part 4, p. 292, pi. liv., fig. 9. Type locality — 80 fathoms 

 off Narrabeen, New South Wales. Hedley and May, op. ctf., 

 1908, vol. vii., No. 2, p. 110, 100 fathoms off Cape % Pillar, 

 Tasmania. 



Dredged in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 6 small, gopd ; 

 identified from specimen sent by Mr. May from Cape Pillar. 



Turritella runcinata, Watson. 



Turritella i uiicinata, Watson, Jour. Linn. Soc, vol. xv., 

 1881, p. 217. Tupe locality— 38 to 40 fathoms off East Moncoeur 

 Island, Bass Strait. "Chall." Reports, Zool., vol. xv., 188(5, 

 p. 475, No. 14, pi. xxx., fig. 3; Miss Donald, Proc. Mai. Soc, 

 London, 1900, p. 47, pi. v., figs. 7 and la; Pritchard and Gatliff, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1900 (1899), vol. xii. (N.S.), part 2, 

 p. 203: Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc, South Australia, 1907, vol. 

 xxxi., p. 308, pi. xxix., fig. 14, of the radula. 



Watson's dimensions are: Height, 1*25 in. : breadth,, 0'4 

 in. ; least, 0*38: but they may reach 1"8 in. by 0'5 in. 



The colour may be a deep uniform chestnut-brown or a 

 pure white with light-brown apex, and spots and flecks of light- 

 yellowish-brown. There is also a lilac-tinted variety, with a 

 pale diffused broad lilac band over the central third, extend- 

 ing sometimes as far as the lower suture. 



This species is quite common as a dredged shell. It has 

 been taken in 16 fathoms, and at all greater depths up to 

 23 fathoms, in Gulf St. Vincent and Backstairs Passage, alive 

 and dead 106 examples: in 25 fathoms Thorny Passage, 5 

 good up to 20 mm. ; in 35 fathoms off St. Francis Island, 

 22 good ; in 40 fathoms off Beachport, over 800 mostly im- 

 mature, but ranging up to 37 mm. : in 55 fathoms off Cape 

 Borda, 640 with some hundreds of tips ; in 62 fathoms off 

 Cape Borda, 82 good up to 25 mm. : in 90 fathoms off Cape 



