122 
Dim.—Length, 5°2 mm.; breadth, 1°5 mm.; another 
“example of thirteen whorls is 6°2 mm. long. 
Locality.—Type, 62 fathoms off Cape Borda, with very 
many others; and at 55 fathoms, 2; in 40 fathoms off Beach- 
port, many; in 104 fathoms off the Neptunes, many. 
Diagnosis.—From 7’. smithiana, Donald, by the smooth 
upper whorls and the more numerous and less valid spirals 
in the later whorls; from 7. kimberi, Verceo, by the blunt 
‘two-whorled protoconch; from 1’. accisa, Watson, by its nar- 
rower smaller form, its more convex later whorls and their 
less valid spirals. 
Type in my collection. 
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HOY Leip opulenta, Hedley. BO2 
Turritella opulenta, Hedley, Records of Austr. Mus., 1907, 
vol. vi., part 4, p. 292, pl. liv., fig. 9. Type locality—80 fathoms 
off Narrabeen, New South Wales. Hedley and May, op. cit., 
1908. vol. vii., No. 2, p. 110; 100 fathoms off Cape Pillar, 
Tasmania. 
Dredged in 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 6 small, good ; 
identified from specimen sent by Mr. May from Cape Pillar. 
Ai £96 Turritella runcinata, Watson. D b 
Turritella runcinata, Watson, Jour. Linn. Soc., Vv Ih. aes 
1881, p. 217. VTupe locality—88 to 40 fathoms off Bast Moncoeur 
Island, Bass Strait. “Chall.”? Reports, Zool., vol. xv., 1886, 
Pp. 475, No. 14, pl. xxx., fig. 3; Miss Donald, Proc. Mal. Soc., 
London, 1900, p. 47, pl. v., figs. 7 and 7a; Pritchard and Gatliff, 
Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1900 (1899), vol. xii. (N.S.), part 2, 
p. 203; Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc., South Australia, 1907, vol. 
xxxi., p. 308, pl. xxix., fig. 14, of the radula. 
Watson’s dimensions are: Height, 1°25 in.; breadth, 0-4 
in.; least, 0°38; but they may reach 1°8 in. by O°5 in. 
The colour may be a deep uniform chestnut-brown or a 
pure white with light-brown apex, and spots and flecks of light- 
yellowish-brown., There is also a lilac-tinted variety, with a 
pale diffused broad lilac band over the central third, extend- 
ing sometimes as far as the lower suture. 
This species is quite common as a dredged shell. It has 
been taken in 16 fathoms, and at all greater depths up to 
23 fathoms, in Gulf St. Vincent and Backstairs Passage, alive 
and dead 106 examples; in 25 fathoms Thorny Passage, 5 
good up to 20 mm.; in 35 fathoms off St. Francis Island, 
22 good: in 40 fathoms off Beachport, over 800 mostly im- 
mature, but ranging up to 37 mm.: in 55 fathoms off Cape 
Borda, 640 with some hundreds of tips; in 62 fathoms off 
Cape Borda, 82 good up to 25 mm.: in 90 fathoms off Cape 
