222 



marked below the angle than above, much narrower than their 

 interspaces ; the four spiral threads above the shoulder very 

 fine, those below it very fine but slightly larger : those on 

 the body- whorl finer than in Tasmanian specimens. A bright 

 reddish-brown spot between the costae at the angle. 



Fasciolaria australasia, Perry. 



Pyrula australasia, Perry, 1811, Conchology, pi. liv., fig. 4, 

 "New Holland and Van Diemen's Land." 



Fasciolaria coronata, Lamarck, . 1822, Anim. S. Vert, vol. 

 vii., p. 120. 



One individual, dredged in 72 fathoms 60 miles west of 

 Eucla, is rather a marked variant. It is 143 mm. long by 55 

 mm. at its widest part. The protoconch of two rounded smooth 

 whorls is less eccentric and pulloid than usual. The spire is 

 unusually long, 62 mm., of six whorls, very sharply shouldered 

 just above the middle and markedly contracted at the sutures, 

 with about eleven pliciform tubercles with sharp transverse 

 summits, corded with a spiral thread. A very thin horny 

 epidermis. Colour, first three spire-whorls brownish, all the 

 rest quite white; interior pure white. Another individual, 

 taken in 100 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, was, as to pro- 

 toconch, shape, and colouration, one of the common coronated 

 forms. 



Scaphella undulata, Lamarck. 



Voluta undulata, Lamarck, Ann. du Mus. Hist. Nat., vol. 

 v. 1804, p. 157, pi. xii., figs, la, lb. 



Four examples, taken 80 miles and 90 miles west of 

 Eucla from 72 to 105 fathoms, all immature and dead and 

 quite typical. 



Scaphella fulgetrum, Sowerby. PI. xi. and xii. 



Voluta fulgetrum, Sowerby, Tankerville Catalogue, 1825, p. 

 81, No. 2149; Appendix, p. xxviii., pi. iv., v.: Type locality 

 unknown: Broderip, Zool. Jour., 1826, vol. ii., p. 35; Wood, 

 Index. Test. Supp., 1828, p. 59, pi. iii., fig. 3; Anim. S. Vert., 

 1844 (2nd Edition, Deshayes, etc.), vol. x., p. 414; Sowerby, 

 Thes. Conch., 1847, vol. i., p. 207, Sp. 35, pi. xlviii., figs. 33, 34; 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1849, pi. vi., figs. 13a, 136- Chenu, Man. 

 de Conch., 1859, vol. i., p. 191, fig. 973; W. F. Petterd, Journ. 

 Conch., 1879, p. 344; Tryon, Man. Conch., 1882, vol. iv., p. 96, 

 pi. xxviii., figs. 104, 105. 



This species was described by G. B. Sowerby, sen., in 

 the Sale Catalogue of the Earl of Tankerville's collection — 

 the only specimen he had ever seen. It was a fine individual, 

 and two excellent full-sized coloured figures are given of it. 

 Its habitat was unknown. Broderip reproduced the descrip- 

 tion of it about a year later in the Zool. Jour., attributing 



