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infrasutural spiral, with white prolongations from it on the 

 upper ends of the axial ribs, or even all along them. A 

 second spiral row of white spots may occur just above the 

 suture through all the spire-whorls and above the periphery 

 of the body-whorl, or it may disappear from the later spire- 

 whorls and be found below the periphery of the body-whorl. 

 The spots may be round, crescentic, or arrow-headed, directed 

 forward. A third spiral of opaque white spots may be pre- 

 sent just above the canal, which may also be white. There 

 are axial wavy fine brown hair lines from the infrasutural 

 white spiral to the canal, interrupted by the central and basal 

 white spirals. Sometimes in addition the shell has a well- 

 marked brown colour, and all the margin of the aperture 

 may have a shining dark-brown tint ; one variant has a 

 golden-brown spiral band a little below the infrasutural white 

 spiral as its only ornament. 



It is taken on the beach at Murat Bay and St. Francis 

 Island in the west. It is dredged alive in 5 fathoms Gulf St. 

 Vincent, many ; 6 fathoms oft* St. Francis Island, several ; 

 15 to 20 fathoms Investigator Strait, 4 ; 35 fathoms off St. 

 Francis Island, several ; dead in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 

 10 moderate, immature ; 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 62 good, 

 short form, 7 very poor, long form ; 62 fathoms off Cape 

 Borda, 4 very poor. 



Pyrene dolicha, n. sp. PI. xxix., fig. 1. 



Shell subulate of eight whorls, including a rather pointed 

 protoconch of two smooth scarcely convex turns. Spire- whorls 

 scarcely convex ; suture distinct, subcanaliculate ; body-whorl 

 long, cylindrical, base roundly contracted ; aperture narrowly 

 oblong-oval, angulate behind, widely open in front, notched; 

 outer lip straight, minutely swollen at the suture, scarcely 

 impressed at its centre, effuse anteriorly ; inner lip distinct, 

 thick, erect, thickened at the suture, where it roundly joins 

 the outer lip. Smooth, except for seven spiral lirge winding 

 from the inner lip round the snout. Ornament, an infra- 

 sutural row of axial opaque-white spots in the upper whorls, 

 and a brown tinting of the margin of the aperture, 



Dim. — Length, 4'8 mm.; breadth, 1*4 mm. 



Locality. — Gulf St. Vincent. 



The type is unique ; its apex and general facies and 

 ornament are those of the smooth variety of P. atkinsorvi, 

 Tenison- Woods, but it is very much larger. It may be only 

 an extreme variant. 



Type in my collection. 



