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mouth not formed. Last whorl much compressed at the base, 

 with a rather long contracted snout. Aperture narrowly 

 oval, canal short, feebly sinistral. Columella slightly con- 

 vex, and originating about fifteen oblique spiral lirae to curve 

 over the back of the snout. Almost smooth : sublenticular 

 accremental, and spiral striae. 



Glistening. First four whorls faintly pink, diminishing 

 from the apex ; ground colour a bluish-gray ; ornamented 

 with bronze- or amber-coloured axial bands, slightly narrower 

 than their interspaces, about twelve to a whorl, from suture 

 to suture, splitting into three or four threads forming a spiral 

 band of hair lines below periphery, and then continued as 

 fewer and rather wider flames over the base. 



Dim. — Length, 10"4 mm. ; breadth, 3*7 mm. 



Locality. — Type in 40 fathoms off Beachport, with 5 

 others quite fresh, all immature. 



In some the bands below the periphery, instead of form- 

 ing the spiral of hair lines, will coalesce, two to form one 

 basal flame. 



Its affinity seems to be with P. me nke.au a, Reeve, but 

 its whorls are more convex, and it has not a similar body- 

 whorl ; but then it is immature. 



Type in my collection. 



Pyrene lincolnensis, Reeve. 



Columbella lincolnensis, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1859, pi. xxix., 

 figs. 184a and b. Type locality — Port Lincoln, Australia . C. 

 (Mitrella), Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1865, p. 166, No. 

 64; also, op. cit., 1867, p. 195, Port Jackson; Tryon, Man. 

 Conch., 1883, vol. v., p. 120, pi. xlviii., fig. 65; (Atilia) 

 Kobe.lt, Conch. Cab. (Ed. Kiister), Band iii., 1897, Abt. i.D, 

 p. 134, No. 118, pi. xix., figs. 15 and 16; (Columbella) Pritchard 

 and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1899, vol. xi. (N.S.), part 

 2, p. 199, Victorian coast; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc, New 

 South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., part 3, p/365, Tasmania; Hedley, 

 Memoirs Aust. Mus., 1903, vol. iv., part 6, p. 377, 22 to 59 

 fathoms off the coast of New South Wales. 



Taken all along the South Australian shore. Dredged 

 alive in 5 fathoms off Edithburgh, many ; in 7 fathoms, 1 ; 

 in Backstairs Passage 17 fathoms, 3 ; in 24 fathoms off New- 

 land Head, 1: dead, many at all depths to 22 fathoms; 

 in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 1. This seems to be a shallow- 

 water shell. 



Its ornament varies greatly. One variety is quite white, 

 with a narrow black spiral line just above the suture and 

 circling the body-whorl. 



