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infrasutural spiral, with white prolongations from it on the 
upper ends of the axial ribs, or even all along them. A 
second spiral row of white spots may occur just above the 
suture through all the spire-whorls and above the periphery 
of the body-whorl, or it may disappear from the later spire- 
whorls and be found below the periphery of the body-whorl. 
The spots may be round, crescentic, or arrow-headed, directed 
forward. <A third spiral of opaque white spots may be pre- 
sent just above the canal, which may also be white. There 
are axial wavy fine brown hair lines from the infrasutural 
white spiral to the canal, interrupted by the central and basal 
white spirals. Sometimes in addition the shell has a well- 
marked brown colour, and all the margin of the aperture 
may have a shining dark-brown tint; one variant has a 
golden-brown spiral band a little below the infrasutural white 
spiral as its only ornament. 
It is taken on the beach at Murat Bay and St. Francis 
Tsland in the west. It is dredged alive in 5 fathoms Gulf St. 
Vincent, many; 6 fathoms off St. Francis Island, several ; 
15 to 20 fathoms Investigator Strait, 4; 35 fathoms off St. 
Francis Island, several; dead in 40 fathoms off Beachport, 
10 moderate, immature; 55 fathoms off Cape Borda, 62 good, 
short’ form, 7 very poor, long form; 62 fathoms off Cape 
Borda, 4 very poor. 
oNeroreg ef a. 
Fewe-dolicha, usp. Pl. xxix, fiz 1, bry 
Shell subulate of eight whorls, including a rather pointed 
protoconch of two smooth scarcely convex turns. Spire-whorls 
scarcely convex; suture distinct, subcanaliculate ; body-whorl 
long, cylindrical, base roundly contracted ; aperture narrowly 
oblong-oval, angulate behind, widely open in front, notched ; 
outer lip straight, minutely swollen at the suture, scarcely 
impressed at its centre, effuse anteriorly; inner lip distinct, 
thick, erect, thickened at the suture, where it roundly joins 
the outer lip. Smooth, except for seven spiral lire winding 
from the inner lip round the snout. Ornament, an infra- 
sutural row of axial opaque-white spots in the upper whorls, 
and a brown tinting of the margin of the aperture, 
Dim.—Length, 4°8 mm.; breadth, 1-4 mm. 
Locality.—Gulf St. Vincent. 
The type is unique; its apex and general facies and 
ornament are those of the smooth variety of P. atkinsoni, 
Tenison-Woods, but it is very much larger. It may be only 
an extreme variant. 
Type in my collection. 
