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off Cape Jafia, 1 good and | very good, with a spiral row of 
distant brown spots in the spire-whorl, extending round the 
body-whorl ; in 62 fathoms north-west of Cape Borda, 3 very 
good, 9 good; in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 2 good; in 104 
fathoms 35 miles south-west of Neptune Islands, 3 good; in 
110 fathoms off Beachport, 1 quite fresh, with some brown 
staining in thb mmiddle third of the outer lip; in 130 fathoms 
off Cape Jaffa, 1 poor. 
These seem to affect deeper water than the type. 
’ bz iA. ar.diteomorpha-paucilirata, n. sp. Pl. xxvii. ss and 9. 
Shell elongate-oval, of 5 whorls, including a blunt pro- 
toconch of 2 convex whorls, apparently smooth, but micro- 
scopically minutely punctate from crowded spiral and axial 
lire; the latter become more conspicuous just before the 
abrupt termination of the protoconch; suture simple, im- 
pressed. Spire-whorls convex, suture distinct, bounded below 
by a round spiral. Body-whort oval, tapering anteriorly ; 
base very faintly excavate. Aperture oblique, narrowly 
oval; outer lip thin, simple, corrugated by the spirals, con- 
vex in profile, with a shallow, round sinus near the suture ; 
inner lip a glaze, thicker on the columella, which is straight 
and forms a round, open angle with the slightly concave base 
of the whorl. There are four spirals in the first whorl, five 
in the second, and seventeen in the body-whorl, becoming 
crowded towards the snout, about one-third the width of the 
concaye interspaces, which are well roughened (and the spirals 
slightly so) by crowded fine distinct oblique axial lire. The 
spirals are opaque-white in colour, and are faintly articu- 
lated with tiny brown subdistant spots; the labrum is brown- 
stained outside. In some examples there is a row of brown 
blotches in each whorl, running round the body-whorl to a 
little above the middle of the labrum. 
Dim.—Length, 4 mm.; of the body-whorl, 2°3 mm. ; 
breadth, 1°77 mm. 
Locality.—Type dredged in 90 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 
with 17 good ones and 28 moderate; in 62 fathoms off Cape 
Borda, 2 good; in 104 fathoms off Neptune Islands, 7 good 
and 8 moderate; in 110 fathoms off Beachport, 1 good. 
It resembles Jf. angusta; but this is longer and has eight 
spirals in the penultimate and twenty-eight in the body- 
whorl. It differs from d/. paula, var. /euca, in having fewer 
spirals, more convex whorls, in an excavate depression below 
the spiral which bounds the suture, and in the more convex 
whorls and deeper suture of the protoconch. 
