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,.A. NAT., VOL. XIV. 
November, 1932 . B^fnard C. Cotton end F. K. Godfrey, 
unbiical chink formed by the thinly and sparingly exsert inner 
lip. Height 3, diam. 1.4 mm. South Australia, very rare. Beach 
— King George Sound, W..A<. (Type locality — Long Bay, Tas- 
mania.) 
O. victoriae GatlllT and Gabriel 1911. “The Victorian 
Odostomia.” Elongated, acjcular; white; spiral incised lines, 
microscopic, numerous, that at the periphery of the body whorl 
being well defined; adult whorls nine, slightly convex; suture 
incised; mouth ovate; inner lip slightly everted; columella with 
a moderately strong ascending fold; situated well within the 
mouth. Height 7, diam. 2.6 mm. Rare. Fowler’s Bay, Gulf 
St. Vincent, MacDonnell Bay. Also King George Sound, W.A. 
(Type locality — Port Albert, Victoria.) A thin vitreous shell 
of a regularly tapering form. Specimens apparently closely allied 
to 0, victonae are in the S.A. Museum collection identified as 
0, densestriata Go.rvQll (Id. Sir J. C. Verco), a Viti Island species. 
They are more closely allied to O. victonae, 
O. vincentiana Tryon (=0. gracilis Angas 1878 {Parthe7iia\ 
preocc:). “The Gulf St, Vincent Odostoniia.” Elongately tur- 
reted, rather thin; white; axially ribbed, the interstices crossed 
by very fine spiral striae; whorls seven-and-a-half, slightly 
convex; contracted above and below the suture; suture strongly 
impressed; mouth quadrately ovate; columella with a single sharp 
tooth-like fold. Height 5, diam. 1 mm. Beach, Grange, Yan- 
kalilla, Robe, MacDonnell Bay, uncommon. Dredged, Backstairs 
Passage. Also beach Geraldton, W.A. (Type locality — Glenelg, 
shell sand.) 
O. taylorae sp. nov. PL 1, fig, 9. “Taylor’s Odostomia.” 
Elongated ovate, rather solid; light horn color, the protocouch 
and one or more following whorls blackish; axial growth striae, 
minute, valid; no spirals; protoconch sinistral, slightly oblique, 
rather depressed, of one and-a-half turns; adult whorls five, 
nearly flat; suture well marked; mouth ovate; outer lip convex, 
effuse anteriorly; columella with one nearly horizontal fold; no 
spiral striae in the throat. Type — Height 4, diam. 2.5 mm. 
Beach — Venus Bay, S. Aus. (Reg. no. D10628 S.A. Mus.) Also 
taken beach — Smoky Bay, Tourville Bay, jMurat Bay; not 
uncommon. The dead shell is usually light horn coloured as in 
the type, but living specimens usually have some or all of the 
whorls brown, blackish, or blackish-blue. Allied to 0. deplexa 
Hedley, and differs in that the shell is narrower, spire longer, 
protoconch comparatively larger, mouth longer and narrower, 
lip more effuse anteriously. Named after Miss Violet Taylor, 
