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THETIS SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



COLUMBELLA ANGAST, Brazier. 



Columhella interrupta, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 56, pi. ii., 

 jff. 9, 10 [not Columhella interrupta, Gaskoin, Proc. Zool. Soc.^ 

 1851, p. 3]. 

 Coluinhella angasi, Brazier, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 322. 



Station 59. 

 One specimen from 54-59 fathoms off Wata Mooli. 



COLUMBELLA PLURISULCATA, Beeve. 



Columhella plurisulcata, Reeve, Conch. Icon., xi., 1859, pi. xxxvi., 

 f. 233. 



Station 41. 



This species is an addition to the Australian fauna. I owe the 

 recognition of it to Mr. Stephen Pace, who kindly identified a 

 specimen of it I collected in Middle Harbour. I have since taken 

 it on the beach at Dudlf^y, New South Wales. 



One dead shell from 52-71 fathoms off Wata Mooli. 



Famz/y MURICIDJE. 



MUREX, Liime. 



MUREX DAMICORNIS, sp. nov. 



(Fig. 92.) 



Stations 44, 49, 52. 



Fig. 92. 



Shell fusiform, thin, spire 

 elevated. Colour drab-grey, 

 with a purplish tinge on the 

 varices. Whorls six, exclu- 

 sive of the protoconch, 

 rounded, flattened above the 

 shoulder, contracted at the 

 suture. Sculpture : on each 

 whorl are three varices which 

 follow obliquely down the 

 spire. Each varix has at 

 the shoulder a long, simple, 

 upcurved, broad, flattened, 

 hollow spine, bi- or trifid at 

 the tip; from its base springs 

 a short spine, followed by 

 three separate short spines. 

 On the canal are three 



