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from Victoria, Tasmania, or Western Australia, To meet 
it in about 100 fathoms in the Great Australian Bight was 
a surprise. The specimens obtained were all comparatively 
young. Their outer lip was formed and toothed, and the 
base was flattened. The youngest is nearly white, with a 
faint bluish-grey tint, and has two broad darker bands run- 
ning across the shell from one lateral margin to the other. 
There are about 25 brown spots on the right margin and 10 
on the left. The next more mature specimen has a flatter 
base, which projects more at both ends, which are faintly 
tinted with orange; the ground-colour is more bluey-grey, 
and numerous transverse interrupted streaks of brown cross 
the shell, more marked on the left side; numerous smaller 
spots are superadded to those on the right border. The third 
example is nearly mature, is of a still darker bluish-grey, 
with much more numerous and darker and larger blackish- 
purple spots on both margins, especially the left, and with 
darker brown dashes on the dorsum arranged antero- 
posteriorly. They differ from specimens found in our gulfs 
in their much lighter colour. The latter, even when much 
less mature, long before they show any sign of a formed 
lip, are of a yellow-orange colour, and are abundantly covered 
with dark-rusty-brown spots and blotches. The pallor of the 
deep-sea examples is very striking. 
purlrocyprea reevei, Gray. Seep 
Cyprea reevei, Gray, Sowerby, Conch. Illus., 1832, Cypraida 
p. 2, No. 15*, fig. 52: Type locality—Garden Island, mouth o 
the Swan River’’; Menke, 1843, Moll. Nov. Holl., p. 29; Tryon, 
Man. Conch., 1885, vol. vii., p. 166, pl. iii., figs. 24, 25. 
Taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, 5 alive; 
in 105 fathoms 30 miles west of Eucla, 1 alive. This species 
is taken in King George Sound on rocks at low tides alive, 
and it is found alive in 100 fathoms. Most of the examples 
taken are more pallid than those in-shore, but there are the 
same pink tips and spire and obsolete transverse darker 
bands. It seems to have come round from the west, and to 
have reached South Australia, where it is known to extend 
as far as Backstairs Passage. From Victoria and Tasmania 
it is unrecorded. 
Cyprzea pulicaria, Reeve. eer Ze SA 
Cyprea pulicaria, Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845, hab. (?); 
Conch. Icon., 1846, Gre 84, pl. xvii., fig. 84; Tryon, Man. Conch., 
1885, vol. vii., p. 189, pl. xvi., figs. 59, 60. 
: Taken in 80 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 1 alive; 
in 100 fathoms 80 miles west, 3 alive; in 100 fathoms 90 
miles west, 6 alive. They vary from 17 mm. to 24 mm. in 
