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canal, which is dorsally curved to run almost vertically for 
about half an inch. The varix of the notch projects as a very 
faint oblique prominence on the columella. The columella is 
sigmoidally concave above and convex below. 
The bent canal removes it from the genus Vominella and 
separates it from Phos and places it in Vassaria. If this loca- 
tion prove correct it is a gigantic member of the genus, 
measuring 69 mm. in length by 29 mm. in breadth. A second 
extmple, not full grown and not in very good condition, was 
taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla. 
Siphonalia dilatata, Quoy and Gaimard. ~? cot Soheed 
Fusus dilatatus, Quoy and Gaimard, 1833, Voy. ‘‘Astrolabe,’’ 
Zool., vol. ii., p. 498, i xxxiv., figs. 15, 16; Pritchard and Gat- 
ic 
liff, Proc. Roy. Soc., toria, 1898 (1897), vol. x. (New Series), 
part 2, p. 272. 
Fusus tasmaniensis, Adams and Angas, 1863, Proc. Zool. 
- Soc., London, p. 421, pl. xxxvii., fig. 1. 
Siphonalia maxima, Tryon, 1881, Man. Conch., vol. iii., p. 
135, pl. liv., fig. 335. 
Siphonalia oligostira, Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1891, vol. 
xiv., p. 258, pl. xi., fig. 6. 
Taken in 105 fathoms 30 miles west of Eucla, with marked 
angulation, valid sharp transverse coronating tubercles, with 
numerous crowded fine deep-brown spiral cords, the colour 
deepest in a rather broad band revolving over the middle of 
the body-whorl, the interior a beautiful vivid salmon-tint or 
white, two examples. 
Taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, 2 much 
longer and narrower examples, one with a more rounded 
shoulder, with rounder and more pliciform tubercles, fewer 
broader spiral cords, pure white both outside and in; the 
second from this station comes midway between this and the 
first two in its colouring and sculpture. One immature, 
48 mm. long, taken in 72 fathoms 40 miles west of Eucla. 
nove hollandiz, Reeve. 
Fusus nove hollandiw, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1847, vol. iv., 
p. 197, pl. xviii., fig. 70; Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, p. 179, 
recorded for New South Wales; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., 1901, vol. xxvi., recorded for Tasmania; Pritchard and 
Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1898, vol. x. (New Series), 
part 2, p. 269, recorded for Victoria; in vol. xviii., 1906, p, 43, 
they state that the type is in the National Museum, Victoria. 
One example was dredged in 100 fathoms 90 miles west 
of Eucla, with the mouth somewhat broken, 67 mm. long by 
22 mm. wide, spire 24 mm. long. Its shoulder is median 
and sharply angled, with nine pliciform axial ribs, more 
