231 
fig. 47, as a synonym of A. marginata, Lamarck; Watson 
(Ancilla), 1886, ‘‘Chall.,’’ Zool., vol. xv., p. 281, “88 fathoms, off 
Bass Strait’; Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc.; N.S.W.. 1901, 
vol, xxvi., p. 365, ‘“Tasmania’’=“‘A. fusiformis, Petterd’’? ; Hedley 
(Ancillaria), Memoirs Austr, Mus., 1903, vol. iy., part 6, p. 364, 
“New South Wales’; Hedley (Ancilla), 1909, Austr. Assoc. Ady. 
Sci., p. 363, ‘‘Queensland.”’ 
Taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla. Mr. Gab- 
riel has sent me two examples dredged in Western Port. 
Victoria. ; 
Ancilla mucronata, Sowerby. eee, Sled 
Anctilaria_mucronata, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. iii., 1866, 
p. 63, No. 30, pl. 211, figs. 11, 12, ‘‘Australia’?; Reeve, 
Conch. Icon., 1864, Sp. 10, Bi iv., figs. 10a, 10b, ‘“Tasmania” ; 
Kiener, Coq. Viv., 1848-44, Ancillaria, me 05, tie, Sh Ee 
iii., fig. 3, “The shores of New Holland.’’ This figure is most like 
our shell in colouring. 
Taken in 75 fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 1; in 80 
fathoms 80 miles west of Eucla, 3; in 100 fathoms 90 miles 
west of Eucla, 1; in 105 fathoms, 3; in 140 fathoms, 2. 
They were all dead, but several in very good condition, 
of a cinnamon or salmon colour, palest in the upper part of 
the spire and deepest between the lowest white band and the 
white columella, not quite so deep in the wide space between 
the two narrow white bands on the body-whorl. Kiener’s 
figure is a fair representation of it. It is quite unlike 4. 
beachportensis, Verco. 
Hemipleurotoma quoyi, Desmoulins. ad A HAecd 
Pleurotoma quoyt, Desmoulins, Actes. Soc. Linn., Bordeaux, 
1842, p. 61. 
Hemipleurotoma, Vereo, Trans. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1909, vol. 
Xxxili., p. 294, 
Taken in 100 fathoms 90 miles west of Eucla, 2. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
Puatr X. 
Vig, 1. Cyprea armeniaca, Verco, dorsal view. , 
r "9 FS ¥ : » ventral view fe: 37 
eo: - i$ 5, side view. 
Prater XI. 
Vig. 1. Scaphella fulgetrum, Sowerby. 
ae UL an *) D, var. lunulisligata, 
ash 3 “ a var, connectens. 
Prare XII. 
Fig. 1. Scaphella fulgetrum, Sowerby, var. tricincta. 
+ re Fi rss 4. var. wnicincta. 
Ep hnA 
” 5, if var. punctisligata. 
