322 
Locality.—Type in 62 fathoms north-west of Cape Borda, 
10 good; in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 17 good and broken ; 
in 104 fathoms 35 miles south-west of Neptune Islands, 3 
good, 7 fragments; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 6 good; 
and in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 good. . 
Variations. —There may be only three spirals in each 
spire-whorl, with less numerous axials. It may reach 65 mm. 
in length. 
Daphnella fragilis, Reeve. 
Pleurotoma fragilis, Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1845, 
p. 111, ‘‘Habitat—(?)’?; Conch. Icon., 1845, pl. reds jth WAY 
Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1880, p. 416, ‘‘Aldinga Bay 
(Tate); Sowerby, Proc. Mal. Soc., London, 1896, P- 26, No. 10; 
Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1906, vol. xviii. 
(N.S.), part 2, p. 51, ‘‘Western Port, Victoria, 7 fathoms.” 
Pleurotoma lymneceformis, Kiener, Reeve, Conch. Icon.. 1846, 
pl. xxxv., fig. 325. 
Pleurotoma lymneiformis, Kiener, Coq. Vivantes, p. 62, pl. 
xxii., fig. 8; var. fragilis, Reeve, Tryon, Man. Conch, 1884, vol. 
vi., p. 300, pl. xxvi., fig. 90. 
Dredged at all depths from 9 to 20 fathoms; 3 from New- 
land Head, westward as far as St. Francis Island, but not 
in deeper water. 
306 
Daphnella stiphra, n. sp. Pl. xxv., figs. 5 and 6. 
Shell fragile, short, biconic. Protoconch brown, of 43 
whorls, the apical 1} with close spiral lire, punctate between, 
the rest latticed by the crossing of two sets of crowded oblique 
lire, whorls convex, sutures deep. Spire-whorls four, convex, 
roundly angled just below the centre; sutures .deep. Body- 
ywhorl tumid, contracted at the base; aperture obliquely oval ; 
outer lip thin, simple, broken; inner lip represented by a 
smooth, glazed area; columella straight, barely concave ; 
canal short, open. Sinus at the suture, round, simple. 
Sculpture. —In the concave space just below the 
suture are crowded very fine spirals, eight in the 
penultimate; below a prominent thread which bounds 
this space are more distant and _ stouter lire, two 
in the first whorl, three in the second, four in the 
third, eight in the fourth, and about forty in the body-whorl. 
Axial threadlets concave forwards to the prominent spiral 
thread, and convex forwards thence to the suture, run in 
the body-whorl oyer the base to the canal. 
Dim.—Length, 85 mm.; breadth, 4 mm. 
Locality.—Type 300 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, dead ; in 15 
fathoms off Wallaroo, 1 moderate. 
