304 
Dim.—Length, 14°4 mm.; of body-whorl, 71 mm. ; 
width, 5°2 mm. 
Locality.—Type from 150 fathoms off Beachport, with 
1 other; also taken in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 1 poor; 
in 104 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 4 good and 11 imma- 
ture, all fresh; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 2 moderate ; in 
130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 poor; in 200 fathoms off Beach- 
port, 1 good. 
Avs7RoDrillia saxea, Sowerby. Vb 
Drillia saxea, Sowerby, Proc. Mal. Soc., Londor, 1896, vol. ii., 
part 1, p- 25, pl. iii., fig. 4. Type locality—“‘Gulf St. Vincent 
(Verco).’ 
The type was a bleached dredged shell. Specimens taken 
since show an infrasutural spiral row, of brown spots between 
the axial plice, spirally elongate. On the body-whorl are 
three faint continuous spiral brown bands, and very faint 
curved axial bands. 
It is quite common as a deep-water form, and has been 
taken in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 31, many quite fresh and 
_ coloured ; in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 9 coloured, 30 dead ; 
in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 19 dead, some of them fairly 
fresh; in 104 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 73, a few fresh, 
mostly immature and opaque; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 
65, some quite fresh; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 58, 
opaque or rolled; in 150 fathoms off Beachport, 16 decolour- 
ized ; in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 1 fresh, 6 dead; in 300 
fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 29 opaque. Their habitat seems to 
be from 110 to between 20 and 40 fathoms. 
£/£4.O©Drillia lacteola, n. sp. Pl. xxvi., fig. 5. et ( 
Shell thin, translucent-white, of 6 whorls, including the 
protoconch of 2 smooth convex whorls. Spire-whorls con- 
vex. Suture simple, narrowly margined. Body-whorl roundly 
contracted at the base ; aperture elongate-oval, opening widely 
into a short canal. Outer lip simple, thin, crenulated out- 
side; with a deep rounded posterior sinus near the suture, 
having a thickened and slightly erect edge, with a shallow 
excavation anteriorly where it is pinched to form the canal. 
Inner lip complete, applied, glazed, thin, thickened at the 
back to meet the margin of the sinus. Columella nearly 
straight. Spirals thin, seven in the penultimate, twenty in 
the body-whorl; faint accremental strie minutely roughen- 
ing the sculpture. 
. Dim.—Length, 48 mm.; of body-whorl, 3°1 mm. ; 
breadth, 2°1 mm. 
Locality.—Type from 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, with 
22 others, good; in 130 fathoms, 21 good; also off Beachport 
