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periphery of the body whorl without a projecting ring; appears 
more inflated and is spirally grooved. 
C. beachportensis sp. nov. PI. 1, fig. 12. “The Beachport 
Cantharidella.” Small, conoid, turbinate, very narrowly perfor¬ 
ate in the juvenile, imperforate in the adult; colour pattern dis¬ 
tinctive and consistent in holotype and paratypes, but varying 
somewhat in examples from other South Australian localities, 
whitish, flecked with small brownish rings at the lower angle of 
body whorl and near the suture; whorls five, markedly gradate 
or excavate, tabulate just below the suture producing a chan- 
nelled-suture appearance, upper angle sharp, lower angle keeled, 
two or three grooves in between; aperture subrotund; columella 
regularly concave, a little arcuate, just closing the umbilicus when 
adult; ^base subplanulate, grooved. Type, height 4, diam. 3.75 
mm. Type locality—40 fathoms off Beachport, South Australia. 
(Reg. Xo. D.11287 S. Aus. Mus.) Also 110 fathoms off Beach¬ 
port (not quite typical): 45 fathoms east of Neptune Islands. 
Several examples from the type locality but mostly only in fair 
condition. This deep water species appears most nearly related 
to C. smaltata Fischer, but differs in the peculiar shape of the 
whorls and coarser sculpture. 
NOTICE. 
“COMBING THE SOUTHERN SEAS.” 
Written by the late Sir Joseph Cooke Verco, M.D. (Lond.), 
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(Edited by Bernard C. Cotton, Conchologist S.A. Museum) 
The book (now in press) describes the author’s unique 
adventures in dredging for Marine Specimens in Southern Aus¬ 
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