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Pyrene jaffaensis, n. sp. PJ. xxix., figs. 5 and o*. 



Shell cylindrically fusiform. Protoconch blunt, of one 

 whorl and a half, subconvex, smooth, ending abruptly by a 

 scar. Whorls four, subconvex. Sutures distinct, subcanali- 

 culate, very narrowly marginate, ascending near the aper- 

 ture. Body-whorl oval, somewhat compressed at the base. 

 Aperture oval, narrowed posteriorly : canal wide, notched ; 

 outer lip thin, simple, infrasuturally feebly excavate ; colum- 

 ella curved, obtuse-angled at the sinistrally directed canal. 

 Smooth, but for sublenticular minute axial and longi- 

 tudinal crowded scratches. 



Dim. — Length, 5'9 mm. ; of body-whorl, 3'4 mm. ; 

 breadth, 2*2 mm. 



Locality. — Type from 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, dead, 

 with 2 others; 40 fathoms off Beachport, 1 good; 110 

 fathoms, 4 poor ; 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 1 moderate ; 

 62 fathoms, 2 poor ; Gulf St. Vincent, depth unrecorded, 1 

 alive, of a light-brown colour, protoconch darker. 



Its generic location is questionable, but must be deter- 

 mined by future examination of the mollusc. 



Type in my collection. 



Pyrene plexa, Hedley. 



Columbella plexa, Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc, New South Wales, 

 1901, part 4, p. 702, fig. 25; (Pyrene), Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc, 

 South Australia, 1908, vol. xxxii., p. 343. 



It has been taken by me also in 90 fathoms off Cape 

 Jaffa, 2 good; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 3 good; and in 

 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 8 good, 7 poor. 



Pyrene calva, n. sp. PI. xxix., figs. 2 and 3. 



Shell solid, of six whorls, including a protoconch of two 

 convex smooth whorls, ending abruptly. Spire-whorls con- 

 vex, sutures impressed. Body- whorl, base roundly con- 

 tracted; aperture narrowly oblong-oval, pinched anteriorly 

 into a notched canal with slightly reflected margin. Outer 

 lip with three denticles inside its posterior third, the largest 

 behind, and a small round shallow infrasutural sinus; inner 

 lip a thin glaze. Sculpture bold, two spirals in the first 

 spire-whorl, three in subsequent whorls, twelve in the body- 

 whorl ; their intersection with the axials, of which there are 

 sixteen to eighteen in the penultimate, are tuberculate, except 

 in the anterior four spirals on the snout, which are crossed 

 only by oblique striae. 



Dim. — Length, 4'4 mm. : breadth, 1*7 mm. 



Locality. — Type dredged in 55 fathoms north-west of 

 Cape Borda, with 57 others, in good condition ; in 6 fathoms 



