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Richards) and Tasmania (Petterd) ; Pritchard and Gatliff 

 described it as a new species from Victoria; and Hedley 

 listed it for Queensland. 



Taken on the beach at Venus Bay, Port Le Hunte, and 

 St. Francis Island, up to 7 mm. long. Dredged dead in 

 Encounter Bay, Backstairs Passage, Gulf St. Vincent and 

 Spencer Gulf, Investigator Strait, from 6 to 22 fathoms, 

 alive in 17, 20, and 22 fathoms Backstairs Passage. Dredged 

 off Beachport in 40 fathoms 4 poor and 3 moderate almost 

 bleached, in 49 fathoms 1 large and quite fresh, in 110 

 fathoms 13 very poor up to 7 mm., in 150 fathoms 1 very 

 poor, in 200 fathoms 2 poor; off Cape Jaffa in 130 fathoms 

 2 dead ; off Cape Borda in 55 fathoms 33 nearly bleached 

 up to 6'25 mm., 1 dead but fresh; off Neptune Islands in 

 45 fathoms 3 poor. 



Taken on Esperance beach 2 ; dredged in 35 fathoms 

 off Hopetoun 8 dead ; on Albany beach 1 ; dredged in King 

 George Sound in 12 to 14 fathoms 1 immature dead, and in 

 35 fathoms 1 broken; on Ellensbrook beach 1 of 7 mm. 

 and 1 of 4'5 mm. in length; on Yallingup beach 6; at 

 Bunbury on the beach 1 of 5*75 mm. length, in 5 fathoms 

 1 dead, in 22 fathoms 3 dead but fresh (1 immature) ; 

 Rottnest Island 17 up to 7 mm. long, and typically coloured. 



