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canal, which is dorsally curved to run almost vertically for 

 about half an inch. The varix of the notch projects as a very 

 faint oblique prominence on the columella. The columella is 

 sigmoidally concave above and convex below. 



The bent canal removes it from the genus Cominella and 

 separates it from Phos and places it in Nassuria. If this loca- 

 tion prove correct it is a gigantic member of the genus, 

 measuring 69 mm. in length by 29 mm. in breadth. A second 

 example, not full grown and not in very good condition, was 

 taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla. 



Siphonalia dilatata, Quoy and Gaimard 



Fusus dilatatus, Quoy and Gaimard, 1833, Voy. "Astrolabe," 

 Zool., vol. ii., p. 498, pi. xxxiv., figs. 15, 16; Pritchard and Gat- 

 liff, Proc. Roy. Soc.,' Victoria, 1898 (1897), vol. x. (New Series), 

 part 2, p. 272. 



Fusus tasmaniensis, Adams and Angas, 1863, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, London, p. 421, pi. xxxvii., fig. 1. 



Siphonalia maxima, Tryon, 1881, Man. Conch., vol. iii., p. 

 1&5, pi. liv., fig. 335. 



Siphonalia oligostira, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1891, vol. 

 xiv., p. 258, pi. xi., fig. 6. 



Taken in 105 fathoms 30 miles west of Eucla, with marked 

 angulation, valid sharp transverse coronating tubercles, with 

 numerous crowded fine deep-brown spiral cords, the colour 

 deepest in a rather broad band revolving over the middle of 

 the body- whorl, the interior a beautiful vivid salmon-tint or 

 white, two examples. 



Taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, 2 much 

 longer and narrower examples, one with a more rounded 

 shoulder, with rounder and more pliciform tubercles, fewer 

 broader spiral cords, pure white both outside and in ; the 

 second from this station comes midway between this and the 

 first two in its colouring and sculpture. One immature, 

 48 mm. long, taken in 72 fathoms 40 miles west of Eucla. 



Fusus novae hollandiae, Reeve. 



Fusus novoz hollandioi, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1847, vol. iv., 

 p. 197, pi. xviii., fig. 70; Angas, Proc Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 179, 

 recorded for New South Wales; Tate and May, Proc Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., 1901, vol. xxvi., recorded for Tasmania; Pritchard acd 

 Gatliff, Proc Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1898, vol. x. (New Series), 

 part 2, p. 269, recorded for Victoria; in vol. xviii., 1906, p. 43, 

 they state that the type is in the National Museum, Victoria. 



One example was dredged in 100 fathoms 90 miles west 

 of Eucla, with the mouth somewhat broken, 67 mm. long by 

 22 mm. wide, spire 24 mm. long. Its shoulder is median 

 and sharply angled, with nine pliciform axial ribs, more 



