382 " THETIS " SCIENJIFIC RESULTS. 



It appears from the figures"^' which Hinds gave that the Aus- 

 tralian shell differs from T. arciiaiiis by more numerous, closer 

 and more upright folds, shorter and straighter canal, duller colour 

 and less prominent apex. 



The literary history of this species and the next has been 

 related in full by Brazier, f 



A doubtful Australian Typhis is Murex ( Trophon) fruticosiis, 

 Gould, I ascribed to New Holland in the original description,^ 

 and finally placed by its author in Typhis. \\ Tryon includes 

 Gould's species as a synonym of Murex noduliferus, Sby.H 



Dredged off Cape Three Points 41-50 fathoms (type) ; off the 

 Manning River 22-23 fathoms; off Port Hacking 22-28 fathoms; 

 off Wata Mooli 54-59 fathoms ; and off Port Kembla 63-75 

 fathoms. 



TYPHIS PHILLIPENSIS, Watson (emend). 



Typis cleryi, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., iii., 1866, p. 320, pi. 284, 

 f. 14 [not Murex (Typhis) cleryi, Petit, Revue Zool., iii., 

 1840, p. 327J. 



Typhis 'philippensis, Watson, Chall. Rep., Zool., xv., 1886, p. 162, 

 pi. X., f. 4. 



Station 27. 



The example figured by Watson was shorn of many tubes. On 

 the ground that the Brazilian species called T. cleryi by Petit 

 had previously received a name from Broderip, Tryon proposed 

 to resume the name T. cleryi as of Sower by for the Australian 

 species. By the modern zoological rule of once a synonym alwaj's 

 a synonym, Sowerby's inherently defective name must be rejected. 



From 22-23 fathoms off the Manning River. 



PURPURA, Braguiere. 



PURPURA SERTATA, sp. nov. 



(Figs. 95, 96.) 



Stations 13, 37, 49. 



Shell small, solid, biconical, profusely ornamented with lines of 

 erect scales, spire tabulate, canal produced, sinuate. Colour: the 



* Hinds— Zool. Sulphur, ii., 1844, pi. iii., f. 1,2. 

 t Brazier— Austr. Mus, Cat., xv., 1S93, p. 72. 



X Gould— U. a. Explor. Exped., xii., Moll., 1852, p. 234, pi. xvii., f. 287. 

 § Gould — Proc. Boston Hoc. Nat. Hist., iii , 1849, p. 143. 

 II Gould— Otia, ]8G2, p. 245. 

 IT Tryon— Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 110. 



