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the previous form; or it may be a shell of 10 mm. by 3°5 
mm., with two spirals in the first two whorls, three in the 
second two, and four in the fifth whorls, with oblique nar- 
row axial cost, 17 in the penultimate, as valid as the spirals, 
tuberculating the intersections, and mildly coronating 
the uppermost spiral. Several of these might be regarded 
as distinct species did not intermediate forms reveal a com- 
plete gradation between them. 
Dredged in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 5 moderate ; in 
110 fathoms off Beachport, 4 good; in 130 fathoms off Cape 
_ Jaffa, 1 alive, 22 good; in 150 fathoms off Beachport, 10 
good; in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 5 good, 1 poor; in 300 
fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 4 good, 23 poor and broken. 
Li a Drillia-dilecta, Hedley. 
Drillia dilecta, Hedley, Memoirs Austr. Mus., iv., part 6, 
1903, p. 387, fig. 100. Type locality—‘Port Stephens, New South 
Wales”; also Records Austr. Mus., vi., part 2, 1905, p. 49, “111 
fathoms off coast of New South Wales.” 
Mr. Hedley writes: —‘‘Certainly J. dilecta, Hedley ; the 
variation is slight; your shell is a little larger, has a spiral 
more, and fewer weaker intercostal radial threads. All mine 
have a broken lip, and I now see for the first time the deep 
sinus which is typical, and to be added to the diagnosis.” 
An infrasutural valid lira limits posteriorly the labral 
sinus, which is bounded anteriorly by the most valid lira on 
the whorl; a very fine threadlet runs nearly midway between 
the two; the sinus is deep and rather narrow. 
Dredged in 90 fathoms Cape Jaffa, 3 good, 8 immature ; 
in 130 fathoms, 2 perfect and 2 poor; 300 fathoms, 1 poor; 
in 104 fathoms 35 miles south-west of Neptune Islands, 17 
good, some of them immature; in 150 fathoms off Beachport, 
1 perfect, 5 poor. . 
2 Fee Cpalbiddeaparabola, n. var. Gee i 
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It differs from the type in having a much wi 
open, parabolic labral sinus; in having more numerous spirals 
on the whorls, 6 in the penultimate and 24 on the body- 
whorl; and in having six lire instead of one between those 
which bound the labral sinus. Only two examples were 
taken—one in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, and one in 200 
fathoms off Beachport. Other specimens may establish it 
as a distinct species or confirm it as a variant. 
ee y, prittia-cancellata, Beddome. 3/2990 
LOR 
Lede Mangelia_caneellata, Beddome, Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasmania, 
entaligro- 1883 (1882), p. 167. Type locality—‘‘Kelso Bay, Tamar River, 17 
dD ey fathoms. 
