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from Victoria, Tasmania, or Western Australia. To meet 

 it in about 100 fathoms in the Great Australian Bight was 

 a surprise. The specimens obtained were all comparatively 

 young. Their outer lip was formed and toothed, and the 

 base was flattened. The youngest is nearly white, with a 

 faint bluish-grey tint, and has two broad darker bands run- 

 ning across the shell from one lateral margin to the other. 

 There are about 25 brown spots on the right margin and 10 

 on the left. The next more mature specimen has a flatter 

 base, which projects more at both ends, which are faintly 

 tinted with orange; the ground-colour is more bluey-grey, 

 and numerous transverse interrupted streaks of brown cross 

 the shell, more marked on the left side; numerous smaller 

 spots are superadded to those on the right border. The third 

 example is nearly mature, is of a still darker bluish-grey, 

 with much more numerous and darker and larger blackish- 

 purple spots on both margins, especially the left, and with 

 darker brown dashes on the dorsum arranged antero- 

 posteriorly. They differ from specimens found in our gulfs 

 in their much lighter colour. The latter, even when much 

 less mature, long before they show any sign of a formed 

 lip, are of a yellow-orange colour, and are abundantly covered 

 with dark-rusty-brown spots and blotches. The pallor of the 

 deep-sea examples is very striking. 



Cypraea reevei, Gray. 



Gyprcea reevei, Gray, Sowerby, Conch. Illus., 1832, Cyprceidce, 

 p. 2, No. 15*, fig. 52 : Type locality — Garden Island, mouth of 

 the Swan River"; Menke, 1843, Moll. Nov. Holl., p. 29; Tryon, 

 Man. Conch., 1885, vol. vii., p. 166, pi. iii., figs. 24, 25. 



Taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, 5 alive ; 

 in 105 fathoms 30 miles west of Eucla, 1 alive. This species 

 is taken in King George Sound on rocks at low tides alive, 

 and it is found alive in 100 fathoms. Most of the examples 

 taken are more pallid than those in -shore, but there are the 

 same pink tips and spire and obsolete transverse darker 

 bands. It seems to have come round from the west, and to 

 have reached South Australia, where it is known to extend 

 as far as Backstairs Passage. From Victoria and Tasmania 

 it is unrecorded. 



Cypraea pulicaria, Reeve. 



Cyprcea pulicaria, Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, hab. ( ? ); 

 Conch. Icon., 1846, Sp. 84, pi. xvii., fig. 84; Tryon, Man. Conch., 

 1885, vol. vii., p. 189, pi. xvi., figs. 59, 60. 



Taken in 80 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 1 alive; 

 in 100 fathoms 80 miles west, 3 alive ; in 100 fathoms 90 

 miles west, 6 alive. They vary from 17 mm. to 24 mm. in 



