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‘free portion may be 15 mm. long. No nucleus has been seen. 
Type locality.—130 fathoms, off Cape Jaffa; also in 90 
fathoms, 37 dead; in 40 fathoms, off Beachport, one dead. 
Vereliiphma Mangitia spica, Hedley. 2) Was 
ecords of the Austr. Mus., vol. vi., pt. 4, 1906, p. 297 
pl. ly., fig. 20. Type locality, off Narrabeen, N.S.W., 80 fms., 3 
examples, 100 fms., off Wollongong 1. 
Dredged at 40 fathoms, off Beachport, one dead; and at 
110 fathoms, one dead. 
The South Australian shells vary from the type in hay- 
ing six spirewhorls instead of four ; and the four earlier whorls 
are not quite so long as those which form the spire of the 
‘type, the axial ribs are more numerous, and are less marked 
‘below the suture. 
—prittia hecatorguia, n. sp. igs. 2 and 3. 21 
Shell small, stout, biconic, 
whorls six. Protoconch flat, two 
‘Smooth convex turns. Spire- 
whorls with a sharp medial angu- 
lation, undulated by  pliciform 
‘tubercles (nine in the penulti- 
mate) plice reaching the lower 
‘suture; suture slightly adpressed. 
Growth-lines microscopic. Body- 
whorl half as long as the shell; 
excavated below the suture, then 
acutely angled; faintly concave ee) 
immediately below the angulation, yg 9, Fig. 3. 
then scarcely inflated, and next 
roundly contracted in the lower third. Tubercular plice wide, 
‘extend from the angle, soon become obsolete. Growth-lines 
faint, rude near the aperture. Sinus half as deep again as 
wide, bounded by the angle. Aperture oblique, length nearly 
four times its width, elongate-oblong. Outer lip simple, thin, 
‘convex. Columella convex in posterior half, straight ante- 
riorly. Inner lip thin, applied, slightly spread, extending to 
suture. Anterior notch moderately wide. Colour translu- 
Cent white, faintly tinged with brown. 
Dim.—Length, 61 mm.; breadth, 2°83 mm. Length of 
aperture, 3:2 mm. The largest example is 7 mm. long. 
Type Locality.—104 fathoms, 35 miles south-west of 
Neptune Islands; 28 dead. 
PRoNucula micans, Angas. F/R Biveluo- 
Nucula micans, Angas. Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., 1878, p. 864, 
pl. liy., f, 16. Type locality, shell sand, Salt Creek; Glenelg, St. 

