
320 
fathoms off Beachport, 22 good; in 130 fathoms off Cape 
Jaffa, 1 very good; in 130 fathoms off Beachport, 9 good, 
showing the brown flames: in 200 fathoms off Beachport, 11 
good; in 300 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 9 very poor. 
~ Daphnella_brenchtey+—A ngas. 
/lathurella brenchleyi, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1877, 
Zi, pl. v., fig. 12. Type locality—‘Port Stephens.”’ 
Daphnella brenchleyi, Angas, Hedley, Memoirs Austr. Mus., 
/iv., part 6, 1903, p. 391, fig. text 106, ‘41-50 fathoms off Cape 
Three Points, New South Wales.’’ 
‘ dypcrda/bonbe. vercoi, Sowerby. 82 
Daptrreltae vercoi, Sowerby, Proc. Mal. Soc., London, 1896, 
vol. ii., p. 27, pl. iil., fig. 8. Type locality—‘‘Backstairs Passage, 
6 to 20 fathoms.” 
The type shell of this species is much more ventricose 
and comparatively of more delicate texture than C. brenchleyi 
from New South Wales, but shells returned to me by Mr. 
Sowerby as cotypes are indistinguishable from the New South 
Wales form in shape and sculpture, and have the same min- 
utely spirally lirate protoconch, and grade into his type. I 
am compelled, therefore, to unite the two. 
Dredged in 6, 9, 12, 15, 17, 20, and 22 fathoms in Gulf 
St. Vincent and Spencer Gulf, Investigator Strait, and Back- 
stairs Passage. 
alpni dud Daphnella eburndits Petterd. 
Trophon eburneus, Petterd, Jour. Conch., 1884, vol. iv., 
. 142. Type locality— ‘Tamar Heads’’; Pritchard and Gatliff, 
?roc. Roy. Soe., Victoria, (1897) 1898, vol. x. (N.S.), p. 258, 
“Western Port’’; also op cit., (1905) 1906, vol. xviii. (N.S.), p. 41. 
Tritonidea eburnea, Petterd, Adcock, Handlist of Aquatic 
Moll. of South Australia, 1893, p. 4, No. 48. 
Cantharus eburneus, Petterd, Tate and May, Proc. Linn. 
Soc., New South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 357, text fig. 1. 
Tate and May shifted this species from 7rophon to Canth- 
arus, but Pritchard and Gatliff objected to this location, yet 
felt doubt as to where it should be placed. I now suggest 
Daphnella. It has a closely spirally lirate protoconch like 
several species in this genus, the delicate lamelliform axials, 
which make a frill immediately below the suture, correspond- 
ing with a smal] round sinus there, and has fine, crowded 
spirals, and when alive is of delicate texture and comes close 
to Daphnella brenchleyi, and especially to var. vercoi, Sow- 
erby. The objection urged to its location in Cantharus, which 
might be regarded as equally valid here, is its umbilicus; but 
is it not a false umbilicus? It is absent from young shells, 


