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B. The flames may be wavy, with several curves in their 
total length. 
’ ©. With the axial flames there may be a white spiral 
band beneath the suture, a peripheral spiral of white spots, 
and a white spiral just above the rey.lving lire over the 
canal. 
D. The flames may be absent and only the three white 
spirals may remain. 
E. Or the lower two only. 
F. Or only that above the notch. 
G. Or the shell may be wholly white and unornamented. 
A third series consists of shells of a cinnamon-brown 
tint, or bluish or purplish-white. It is squat in shape, with 
convex-whorls slightly tumid below the suture, with a blackish- 
purple apex. 
A. The body-whorl is ornamented throughout with three 
spiral rows of arrow-heads directed forwards, and formed of 
‘dark-brown rather close-set lines; the three rows are separ- 
ated along two narrow spiral lines, one just above the peri- 
phery and the other from the back part of the aperture. 
B. The arrow-head markings may be absent, the shell 
being otherwise indistinguishable. 
A fourth series has two broad pale-pink spirals on the 
body-whorl ; sometimes the upper one is broken up into large 
“square blotches. The upper band is defined below by a 
narrow spiral line of white spots; these may be narrow, 
transversely elongate, placed obliquely, with the anterior end 
‘slightly higher than the posterior, or club-shaped, with the 
wider end in front; sometimes from the narrow end of these 
clubs directed downwards and backwards, a narrow long 
white spot may extend downwards and forwards. 
Taken on the beach all along the coast from Beachport 
‘to St. Francis Island. Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent and 
Spencer Gulf, many alive and dead; in 40 fathoms off Beach- 
port, 36, some alive; 45 fathoms off Neptune Island, 1 
poor; 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 25 good, 2 poor; 90 
fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 1; 110 fathoms off Beachport, 2 good, 
37 poor; 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa, 15 very poor; 150 
fathoms off Beachport, 1 poor. This species extends out into 
BS deep water. 
ALORA cis, n. sp. Pl xxix., figs. 8 and 9.64 §> 
Shell small, solid, of five whorls, including a blunt pro- 
ttoconch of two round smooth whorls ending abruptly. Suture 
linear, distinct, ascending at the aperture. Spire-whorls con- 
vex below the suture; the first two sloping towards the lower 
‘suture, the third somewhat contracted. Body-whorl large 
