Mor.LUSCA— IIKDMCY. 37") 



'•Aftm- longtheiieil study of considerable material and having 

 traced up specimens of d. fMsniatiiensis, from three-fourths of an 

 inch in length to those of seven inches, I have no hesitation in 

 regarding N. maxima as the senile stage of S. taamanimisis." In 

 all stages >k?. maxivui appears to me to bo of more slender propor- 

 tions, though absolutely lai-ger, the whorls to have a more acute 

 angle with fewer bolder nodules, and the canal to be longer and 

 more bent. 



The species seems to be not distantly related to MegalatrarJus 

 aruanus, Linn. 



Alive from 41-50 fathoms off ("!ape Three Points ; dead fi^om. 

 .[)2-7 1 fathoms otf Wata Mooli, and 49-50 fathoms off Coogee. In 

 1891 the Museum received specimens taken alive off Broken Bay 

 by the Deep Sea and Trawling Syndicate. 



CYLLENE, Gra^J. 



CYLLENE LACTEA, Adams & Angus. 



Cyllene lactea, Adams &, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 422. 

 Rl, Hedley, Proc Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxvi., 1901, p. 19, 

 pi. ii., f. 10. 



Station 33. 



One dead shell from 24-27 fathoms at the north end of the 

 Newcastle Bight. 



F A S C I N U S, gen. nov. 



A genus of the Buccinidce related to Hindsia. Animal un- 

 known. Shell oblong, with a large protoconch and four adult 

 whorls. Sculpture: coarse spirals crossed by delicate radials. 

 Spire unbroken by varices, but a well developed varix stands 

 behind the aperture. In the posterior angle of the mouth a 

 tubercle, on the columella no plications. Canal broad, short and 

 open. 



Type, F. typicus, Hedley. 



Without the aid of the soft parts this genus cannot be finally 

 classified. In several respects it recalls Cohibraria, but lacks the 

 varices on the upper whorls. Again, it shares some aspects of 

 J^assa, but the pattern of its sculpture is foreign to that group. 

 The large apex and absence of columella plications sever it from 

 Hindsia, 



