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Watson, in the “Challenger” Reports, xv., p. 429, agrees 
with Beck in the identity of S. chemnitzii, A. Adams, and 7. 
blainvilleanus, Petit. Mr. Gatliff acknowledges the identity 
of his species with Petit’s. He has kindly allowed me to com- 
pare his type with my South Australian examples, and see 
their identity. | . 
Mr. Gatliff also provided me with a living individual 
dredged in five fathoms, off the shores of Victoria. It is 
covered with an epidermis, extremely thin on the smallest 
whorls (possibly worn away), but well marked on the later. 
It is simple on the tabulated slope, on the base and in the 
umbilicus only varied by minute axial lines. On the three 
carine it is elevated into low spiral laminz, which are con- 
nected by more marked axial lamine. At intervals these are 
large, and projected forwards to form imbricating flounces, 
while between them may be 3 to 7 of the smaller ones. These 
flounces correspond with the tubercles at the angles of the 
polygonal whorls. They are figured in pl. ix., fig. 7, but 
very imperfectly, owing to its drying up. 
From his living example I was able to extract the radula. 
This is very similar to that of Trichotropis borealis, Broderip, 
as figured in Fischer’s Manuel de Conch., 1887, p. 689. It 
“yhas a rachidian tooth with a multicuspidate margin, rather 
more finely serrated, a large transversely quadrangular lateral 
with a multicuspidate border and two simple arcuate sharp 
marginals. (PI. ix., fig. 9.) 
The operculum is horny, subtrigonal, with an apical nu- 
cleus (pl. ix., fig. 8), and fairly closely resembles that of 
T. borealis, Brod. The affinity of our southern subtropical 
form with that of the arctic form,is thus demonstrated, 
YELSPIYSTES SER 476.4 YG ere ‘ 
@Lippistes meridionalis, spec. nov. " Pl. ix., figs. 1, 2. “; Zz: ae 
Shell turbinate sclid, whorls five, rapidly increasing. Pro- 
toconch, one and a kalf whorls, convex, smooth, but for four 
border, not thickened or reflected. The spire whorl begins 
_ with a not quite smooth area, from which the granular spiral ~ 
lire gradually arise. Spire whorls are tricarinate. In the 
first the central carina is more prominent, in the second it is 
level with the others, in the third it is less prominent. Slop- 
ing scarcely convex from upper suture to posterior carina, 
vertical from this to lower suture. On the slope are four equi- 
distant spiral liree, one-third or one-fourth the width of their 
interspaces, increasing in size with the whorls. Base some- 
what concave. A peripheral carina, less marked than those 
on the spire, forms the suture. Below it are four broad 
spiral bands, wider than their interspaces, and microscopically 

equal and equi-distant lire. It ends abruptly with a align 4 366 | 
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