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carine, straight below. Spire-whorls twelve, sloping, th2 
first four with two spiral rows of pearls; in the fifth a lira 
appears between them, and becomes gradually as large as the 
others; the tubercles are large, about twenty in a row in 
the penultimate, joined by short bars transversely, and by 
narrower axial bars directed obliquely forwards towards the 
lower suture. Sutural spaces distinct, as wide as a pearl 
row; in the eighth a supra-sutural thread arises, which grows 
distinct and slightly tuberculate. Base flatly convex, with 
the sutural lira, and two basal lire; the first with valid trans- 
versely oval tubercles, joined by very broad axial bands to 
much lower tubercles in the second, and by vanishing bands 
to the nearly smooth third lira. Aperture round, pinched 
at the suture into a sinus, and with a short well recurved 
canal in front; outer lip thin, simple, slightly reflected at 
its margin, retrocurrent at the suture, crossing the colum- 
ella in front and flattened out over the base of the canal, so 
‘as to close it here. The outer lip has eight nodulous spirals 
on its outer surface, viz., three as on the spire, the peripheral 
and one basal, and three others intercalated on the body- 
whorl. Colour, protoconch light-brown, shell white, but for 
the fifth and sixth whorls which are dark-brown, so as to 
form a sort of bracelet, whence the name. 
Dim.—Length, 79 mm.; breadth, 2°2 mm. 
Locality.—Type, Gulf St. Vincent, dredged in 20 fath- 
‘oms, with many other good ones; also in 6 and in 15 to 20 
fathoms off St. Francis Island, 9 good in each; in 22 fath- 
-oms, Investigator Strait, 2 good and 4 poor; in 22 fathoms, 
outside Backstairs Passage, 3 poor; in 40 fathoms off Beach- 
port, 2 moderate, 3 poor; in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 4 
poor. Also taken on the beach in Gulf St. Vincent, Venus 
and Scales Bay, West Coast, and many and good on St. 
Francis Island. It is a shallow-water species, ranging up to 
‘about 40 fathoms. 4 
TAR &€Triphora cinerea, Hedley. 36 
Triphora cinerea, Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc., New South Wales 
1903 (1902), part 4, p. 612, pl. xxxiii., figs. 36 and 37. Type 
locality—Middle Harbour, Port Jackson. Pritchard and Gatliff, 
Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1906 (1905), vol. xviii. (N.S.), part 2, p. 
‘61, Victoria. 
Dredged in 14 fathoms off Ardrossan, 3 moderate: in 
‘Gulf St. Vincent, below 25 fathoms, 12 fresh, 32 moderate, 
18 poor; in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 9 perfect, 22 moder- 
ate; in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 9 good, 7 poor; in 62 
fathoms, 1 moderate ; in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 16 moder- 
ate, immature, and 9 poor, broken; in 110 fathoms off Beach- 
‘port, 3 moderate, broken; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 1 
