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Pyrene remoensis, Gatliff and Gabriel. 



Columbella remoensis, Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy Soc 

 Victoria, 1910, vol. xxiii. (N.S.), part 1, p. 82, pi. xviii., figs 1 

 and 2. Type locality— Sun Remo, Western Port. 



Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent, depth not recorded, 6 good, 

 38 dead ; in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 6 moderate ; in 55 

 fathoms off Cape Borda, 5 good, 5 poor; in 62 fathoms, 1 

 poor; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 1 good, 5 poor; in 130 

 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 poor; in 150 fathoms off Beach- 

 port, 1 poor. 



To the author's description I may add that there is also 

 an infrasutural row of tiny tubercles, due to the splitting 

 of the row of large tubercles each into two. The ornament 

 in the living shell consists of two translucent spiral bands, 

 one on the spire-whorls between the large tubercles and the 

 suprasutural, and winding round the body- whorl to the centre 

 of the outer lip, it is edged above with a broken brown hair 

 line, and towards the lip becomes brown; the other winds 

 round the base and over the snout, where it is mottled and 

 streaked with brown. 



Pyrene fenestrata, n. sp. PI. xxix., fig. 7. 



Shell minute, of five whorls, including a blunt proto- 

 conch of one convex-whorl and a half, ending abruptly by a 

 scar. Spire-whorls shouldered in the upper third; above this 

 sloping, below this vertical. Body- whorl voluminous, shoul- 

 dered, subangulate at the periphery, concavely contracted at 

 the base. Aperture rhomboidal, contracted posteriorly ; canal 

 wide, deflected to the left; outer lip simple, thin; columella 

 straight, feebly bidentate. Sculpture, short plicate tubercles 

 from the suture to just beyond the shoulder, sixteen in the 

 body-whorl ; closely feebly spirally striate all over. There 

 is a spiral row of translucent crescentic areas convex forward, 

 just above the sutures, like windows, as though formed by 

 grinding away the opaque outer layer of the shell, eight 

 in the body- whorl, with the spiral striae showing like scratches 

 in the glass. There is a second series of them just below the 

 periphery, becoming a broad translucent band towards the 

 lip margin. Colour opaque-white, with a small obscure pale- 

 brown blotch in the lower half of the lower series of windows. 



Dim, — Length, 3 4 mm. ; of the body-whorl, 2*4 mm. ; 

 breadth, 1*65 mm. 



Locality. — Type, Venus Bay beach, 2 ; St. Francis 

 Island beach, 1. 



Type in my collection. 



