327 
Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent, under 22 fathoms, 20 alive, 
9 dead; in 17 fathoms Backstairs Passage, 1 alive; in 15-20 
fathoms off St. Francis Island, 1 alive; in 35 fathoms, 1 alive, 
2 dead; in 45 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 1 dead; 
in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 dead, immature; in 104 fath- 
oms 35 miles south-west of Neptune Islands, 2 good, dead. 
Another variety which may be called marmorata is beau- 
tifully marbled with flames of white and deep blackish- 
brown. 
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excavata, Gatlit. S72 
Daphnella excavata, Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1906, 
vol. xix. (N.S.), p. 1, pl. i., figs. 1 and 2. Type locality—‘‘Port 
Phillip”; Hedley, Proc. Linn. Soc., New South Wales, 1907, vol. 
xxxli., p. 507, ‘fin 17-20 fathoms off Mast. Head Island, Queens- 
land’’?; Hedley and May, Records Austr. Mus., vol. vii., No. 2, 
1908, p. 112, ‘‘in 100 fathoms off Cape Pillar, Tasmania.’ 
Dredged in 22 fathoms outside Backstairs Passage, 11 
examples. Identified by Mr. Gatliff. 
a. GURAKKEUS§ Varin 
—€ythara=compta, Adams and Angas. ar, 
Vithara compta, Adams and Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc’, London, 
1863, p. 419, pl. xxxvii., fig. 5. Type locality—‘New South 
Wales’’; 1865, p. 160, ‘‘dredged Rapid Bay, Gulf St. Vincent” ; 
1867, p. 204; Sowerby, Proc. Mal. Soc., London, 1896, vol. ii., p. 
31; Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soe., Victoria, (1899) 1900, 
vol. xii. (N.S.), p. 176, ‘‘Victoria’’; Tate’and May, Proc. Linn. 
Soc., New South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 370, ‘‘Tasmania.’’ 
Daphnella, ete., Tryon, Man. Conch., 1884, vol. vi., p. 
306, pl. xxv., fig. 49. t 
Daptrela variz, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Roy. Soc., Tasmania, 
(1876) 1877, p. 10. Type locality—‘Tamar Heads, Tasmania.” 
Dredged alive at all depths from 9 to 20 fathoms in Gulf 
St.. Vincent and Spencer Gulf, and in our two Straits; only 
1, and that very poor, dredged in 40 fathoms off Beachport. 
It is taken on the beach on St. Francis Island, and has been 
sent to me from Rotnest Island, in Western Australia. It 
is a comparatively common shell in South Australia. 
 Gourrobeoug eythara kingensis, Petterd. Yr G3 
Daphnella kingensis, Petterd, Jour. Conch., 1879, vol. 
li., p. 102. Type locality—‘King Island, Tasmania’’; Tate and 
May, Proc. Linn. Soc., New South Wales, 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 
370; Hedley and May, Records Austr. Mus., vol. vii., No. 2, 1908, 
p- 112, ‘100 fathoms off Cape Pillar, Tasmania.” 
Cithara cognata, Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc., Vic- 
toria, 1899, vol. xii., p. 103, pl. viii. _ Type locality—‘5 fathoms 
Western Port??; Tate and May, loc. cit., affirm its identity. 
Mangilia emina, Hedley, Records Austr. Mus. vol. vi., part 
2, 1905. p. 53, fig. 20. Type locality—‘111 fathoms off Cape 
Byron, New South Wales.” 
