384 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



A few specimens occurred off Port Kembla in G3-75 fathoms; 

 off Botany Bay in 50-52 fathoms; and one embryo off Cape 

 Three Points in 41-50 fathoms. Mr. G. H. Halligan and I dredged 

 one shell in 100 fathoms sixteen miles east of Wollongong. 



PURPURA TRITONIFORMIS, Blainville. 



Purpura tritowformis, Blainville, Nouv. Ann. Mus., i., 1833, p. 

 221, pi. X., f. 10. /(/., Kesteven, Proc. Linn. N.S. Wales, 

 xxvi., 1902, p. 533-8, pi. xxix. 



Stations 52, 55, 56. 



From 11-15 fathoms off the Crookhaven River; 19-20 fathoms 

 in the Shoalhaven Bight; and 79-80 fathoms ©ff Botany Bay. 



Family TEREBRID^. 



TEREBRA, Bruguiere, 

 * TEREBRA EICTILIS, Hinds. 



Terebra Jictilis, Hinds, Thes. Conch., i., 1844, p. 1S3, pi. xlv., 

 f. 109, 110. Id., Hedley, Proc. Linn. Sec. N.S. Wales, xxv., 

 1900, p. 509, pi. xxvi., f. 14. 



Terebra assimilis, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. Ill, pi. xiii., 

 f. 8. 



Station 28. 



One dead specimen from 22 fathoms off' the Manning River. 



TEREBRA BICOLOR, Amjas. 



Terebra bicolor, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. Ill, pi. xiii., 

 f. 7. 



Station 33. 



A few dead shells from 24-27 fathoms at the north end of the 

 Newcastle Bight. 



Famz/y PLEUROTOMID^. 



P L E U R T O M A, Lamarck. 



PLEUROTOMA VEPRATICA, sp. nov. 



(Fig. 97.) 



Stations 13, 37, 49. 



Shell small, thin, slender, fusiform, prickly, spire pagodiform. 

 Colour uniform pale In-own. Wliorls six, plus a hve-whorled 



