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the spire-whorls, just above the suture, are distant, trans- 
verse, oblong spots, about six in a whorl. 
Taken in lobster-pots off Granite Island, Port Victor, 
three examples. 
Philine columnaria, Hedley and May. 9 3 4 
Philine columnaria, Hedley and May, Records Austr. Mus., 
vol. vii., No. 2, 1908, p. 128, pl. xxiv., figs. 25, 26. Type locality 
—100 fathoms, off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. 
Dredged dead, in poor condition off Beachport in 40 
fathoms, 1; in 100 fathoms, 2; in 110 fathoms, 5; in 200 
fathoms, 6; off Cape Jaffa in 130 fathoms, 3. It was iden- 
tified by Mr. Hedley from type. 
Some specimens show. two spiral bands, one about the 
middle of the shell, the other about halfway between this 
and the apex, less opaque than the rest of the shell, and 
are sometimes constricted along these lines and swollen be- 
tween. Mr. Hedley says the Cape Pillar individuals showed 
the same variation. 
Philine beachportensis, n. sp. Pl. xx., figs. 1, 2, and 3. BFC 
Shell milk-white, ovate. Apex sunken. Vertex with 
a triangular callus projecting from the inner lip; from the 
apex of the callus a lamina borders the back of the aper- 
ture, and a second runs round the middle of the apical pit 
to the outer lip, the two enclosing a gutter narrowing out- 
wardly. 
Aperture wide in front, narrow behind, with a narrow 
posterior sinus. Outer lip simple, thin, straightly-convex in 
profile ; basal lip uniformly curved; columella concave; inner 
lip with a defined, well-spread glaze, ending behind in the 
callus. 
Sculpture.—Crowded, flat, spiral lire, separated by in- 
cisions, widest in the central half, more crowded towards 
the base, most crowded in the posterior fourth. Very crowd- 
ed, fine accremental striz cross the spirals and distinctly 
punctate the incisions. 
Dim.—Length, 182 mm.; breadth, 81 mm. 
Locality.—Type in 200 fathoms off Beachport, with 8 
smaller ; 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 16; 300 fathoms, 5, all 
dead. 
Philine evoluta, n. sp. Pl. xx. figs. Sand 9. 42 
Shell small, thin, milky-white, short, subquadrate. Ver- 
tex very little narrowed, not umbilicated, showing three-quar- 
ters of a whorl. Surface flatly convex. 
Aperture very wide, widely sinused above. Outer lip 
