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the example figured, the shield "of a rich yellow ground- 

 colour, with large circular or oval lighter blotches surrounded 

 by wreaths of black." A very large number were altogether 

 destitute of the black wreaths, and had pale-yellow areas on 

 the darker-yellow ground. Others had opalescent- white spots 

 instead of the pale-yellow, and others again had yellow spots 

 on an opalescent-white ground. 



Balch, of Boston, Massachusetts, in a paper on a new 

 Labradorean species of Onchidiopsis, in the Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. xxxviii., No. 1761, p. 469, places Galedoniella in 

 the subfamily Velutinince, of the family Lamellariidce; but 

 in order to locate the genus definitely in its subfamily it is 

 necessary to determine whether the animal has the sexes 

 separate or united, and whether it has an expiratory cleft. 



Turritella runcinata, Watson. 



Turritella runcinata, Watson, Jour. Linn. Soc, vol. xv., 1881, 

 p. 217; Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1910, vol. xxxiv., p. 122. 



Taken in 50 fathoms west of Eucla, 2; 75 fathoms 80 

 miles west of Eucla, 3 ; 80 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 

 4; 101 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 1. It may reach 

 64 mm. in length by 17 mm. in width. They were all dead. 



Vermicularia flava, Verco. 



Vermicularia flava, Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1907, vol. 

 xxxi., p. 214, fig. 1; Gatliff and Gabriel, Proc. Roy. Soc, Vic- 

 tora, 1908, vol. xxi. (New Series), part 1, p. 376, "Western 

 Port"; Hedley and May, Records Austr. Mus., 1908, vol. vii., 

 p. Ill, "100 fathoms, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania''; Hedley, Com- 

 monwealth of Australia, Fisheries, 1911, part 1, p. 93, "100 

 fathoms, off Cape Wiles." 



Taken in 80 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, alive : in 

 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla. 



Siliquaria australis, Quoy and Graimard. 



Siliquaria australis, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "Astrolabe," 

 ZooL, 1834, vol. iii., p. 302; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 378, recorded for Tasmania; Menke, 

 Moll. Nov. Holl., p. 10, No. 28, recorded for Western Australia; 

 Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 174 (Tenagodes), recorded for 

 South Australia; Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc, Vic- 

 toria, 1900, vol. xii. (New Series), part 2, p. 204, recorded for 

 Victoria. 



Dredged alive in large masses of yellow sponge in 80 

 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, and in 75 fathoms ; in 100 

 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, and in 72 fathoms 40 miles 

 west of Eucla. 



