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Locality.—Type specimen taken in the trawl at 105 to 
77 fathoms 90 miles west of the meridian of Eucla. 
In 1896 off Newland Head, outside Backstairs Passage, 
I dredged a dilapidated broken specimen lacking the whole of 
its last whorl, but measuring 23’5 cm. in length, so that in 
life it must have been a very large shell. No others were 
taken by me till I secured the type and eight other examples 
from the material brought up by the trawl of the ““Endeavour”’ 
in water ranging from 75 to 105 fathoms, and extending from 
. 40 to 120 miles west of Eucla. 
The protoconch was absent from every example. Appar- 
ently it is normally deciduous, and must be shed early, as it 
is absent from a well-preserved specimen 11 cm. long. It must 
be large, and probably resembles that of S. mamilla, which, 
however, is almost always intact. The whitish band may be 
centrally well marked and fade away at both margins. 
The species is named after Mr. Dannevig, the Common- 
wealth Director of Fisheries, to whom I was indebted for 
much help in securing the material obtained during my short 
voyage on the “Endeavour.” 
Type in my collection. 
Cae : G05 
Scaphella roadnightz, McOoy. PI. xvi., figs. 1,°2. 
Voluta roadnightw, McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1881, vol. 
viii., 5th Series, p. 89, pl. vii., figs. 1, 2: Type locality—Ninety- 
mile Beach, Gippsland, Wagan Tryon, Man. Conch., 1882, vol. 
iv., p. 96, pl. xxx., fig. 128; Sowerby, Thes. Conch., 1887, , 298, 
Sp. 78, pl. 573 (Voluta, pl. xiv.), fig. 148; Pritchard and Gatliff, 
Proc. Roy. Soc., Victoria, 1897, vol. x. (New eee art 2, 
p. 282, ‘Portland (Nat. Mus.)”; A. Kenyon, Proc., Mal. Soc., 
London, 1899, p. 267; Baldwin-Spencer, Proc. Mal. Soc., London, 
1901, vol. iv., p. 184; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 
1901, vol. xxvi., part 3, p. 360, Maria Island (May), east_coast, 
near Swansea (A rs. Irvine), Tasmania; Pritchard and Gatliff, 
op. cit., 1906 (1905), vol. xviii., part 2, p. 45. 
This species was found by Baron von Mueller when on 
a visit to the Gippsland Lake District at his hotel, where it 
was in use to prop open his bedroom window. It had been 
found on the Ninety-mile Beach by Mrs. Roadnight, his 
landlord’s mother, after whom it is named. It was given 
by Mueller to Sir Frederick McCoy, who described it in 1881. 
In 1899 some seven specimens were known, two of them from 
the eastern coast of Tasmania. Later, several were obtained 
from lobster-pots on the Victorian coast, and Mr. Bastow 
kindly sent me one. Mr. Dannevig, the Director of Fisheries, 
tells me he has taken several specimens when trawling off the 
coasts of Victoria and Tasmania, east of Bass Strait, all dead ; 
and occasionally off the South Australian coast, but the first 
living examples were brought up from about 100 fathoms 
