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Taken in 75 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 1 dead, 
immature; in 80 fathoms same locality, 1 dead, mature; in 
100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, 3 dead, immature. 
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Scaphetfa translucidgetVerco a O4 
Voluta translucida, Verco, Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1896/ vol. 
xx., p. 217, pl. vi., figs. 4, 4a. 
In 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla a large lump of 
coral was taken, and in a cavity of this when chopped open 
lay a perfect specimen dead, with a deciduous thin white 
smooth epidermis, 35 mm. long by 14 mm. broad, somewhat 
smaller than the type. 
Scaptella dannevigi, un. sp. Pl. xiii, figs. 1, 2. “f O b 
A large, thin, brown, polished, elliptical shell. Proto- 
conch absent, the line of separation thin and jagged; the 
exposed pillar very oblique, thick, smooth, and rounded, 
concealing the projecting hemispherical apex of the shell. 
Whorls three, shouldered below the suture, at the upper 
fourth of the intersutural space. Shoulder coronated with 
tubercles, eleven on a whorl, none on the first whorl, the 
earlier tubercles pointed, the later becoming broad until about 
half as wide as the interspaces, shortly pliciform, but ex- 
panding, and vanishing before reaching the lower suture. 
Whorls sloping, concavely sub-gradate above the shoulder, 
sloping slightly convex below. Suture distinct, minutely 
channelled. Body-whorl large, oval, narrowed anteriorly. 
Aperture axially narrowly elliptical. Inner lip a thin exten- 
sive glaze over the whorl; outer lip immature, thin, uniformly 
convex, and (as the growth-lines show) curving roundly to a 
wide, rather shallow, anterior notch. Columella subconcave, 
three very oblique plaits, the lowest forming the margin of 
the canal. 
Sculpture.—There are crowded, fine, wavy, spiral lire, 
about twenty above the shoulder, less valid over this and soon 
becoming obsolete below it. Accremental striez granulate 
these and become ruder towards the aperture. Colour, dark 
chestnut-brown, obscurely minutely spirally crowdedly flecked 
with white, with scattered darker-brown blotches, the tips of 
the tubercles a deep blackish-brown. A narrow creamy band, 
distinct on its under margin, indistinct along its upper border, 
starts just within the back of the aperture and winds round 
the body-whorl to the middle of the outer lip. 
Dimensions.—Length, 163 cm., of the aperture 11°3 cm. ; 
width, 833 cm., of the aperture 4°77 cm.; diameter of the 
protoconchal base, 18 mm. 
