301 
Drillia woodsi, Beddome. 
Drillia woodsi, Beddome, Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasmania, 1883 
(1882), p. 167. Type locality—‘Long Bay, D’Entrecasteaux Chan- 
nel, Tasmania’; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc., New South 
Wales, xxvi., 1901, part 3, p. 368 ; Hedley, Memoirs of Austr. 
Mus., iv., part 6, 1903, p. 388) “New South Wales coast.’’ 
Drillia howitti, Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc., Vic- 
toria, vol. xii. (N.S.), 1899, p. 101, pl. vili., fig. 2. Type locality 
—‘Gippsland coast.” 
Mr. Gatliff has kindly identified South Australian shells 
as ). howitti; Tate and May, and Hedley, loc. cit., give 
this as a synonym of JD. woodsi, Bedd., and Mr. May says 
ours are undoubtedly woodsz, from comparison with a draw- 
ing he made from Beddome’s type, and though I have not 
seen this, on trust in their determination, I have called our 
shell D. woodsi, Bedd. 
Taken on Middleton Beach, solid and much rolled. 
Dredged in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 1 good; in 104 fathoms 
off Neptune Islands, 1 good and 6 broken; in 110 fathoms 
off Beachport, 2 good, 17 poor or broken; in 130 fathoms off 
Cape Jaffa, 8 very poor; in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 2 
good, and 7 poor or immature; in 300 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 
1 ppor. dy prt: 
// berrdcblea ar: acostata, n. var. Yl 
This differs in having no axial costa, and in being less 
solid. That it is only a variety appears from two facts— 
first, the validity of the coste can be graded in a series of 
examples from well-marked to absent; second, some shells 
have the costs valid in the earlier whorls, but they fade to 
extinction in the later. It may reach a length of 21°5 mm., 
and have 12 whorls. Some individuals show 2, 3, or 4 opaque 
whitish hair lines in the substance of the spire-whorls. They 
are frequently prettily coloured, pinkish-salmon, with three 
rather indistinct bands in the body-whorl, a broad one be- 
low the suture, not distinctly bounded inferiorly, a second 
thin median band, and the third over the base and canal. 
In the spire they form an infra-sutural and a supra-sutural 
band. 
Dredged in 110 fathoms Beachport, 2 good, 3 poor, 5 
immature ; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 4 good, but imma- 
ture; in 150 fathoms off Beachport, 15 moderate and poor; 
in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 17 good, 14 poor. They seem 
to favour the deeper waters, and to be more numerous than 
the typical forms there. 
Irqwuisto ~ Pritlia_coxi, Angas 762 
Drilha cori, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1867, p. 118, pl. 
xiii., fig. 15. Type locality—‘‘Port Jackson’’; ibid, p. 208; Tate 
