Capulus devotus: Shell small, rather solid, elevated, irregular, asymmetrical; apparently without epidermis. Colour white. Sculpture : delicate regular concentric hair-lines. Protoconch sharply defined, of a whorl and a half, smooth. Apex projecting far past the base. Adult shell describing a quarter of a whorl, rapidly increasing, wound in a different plane to the embryo. Aperture subcircular, simple, slightly expanded. Specimen drawn, from back to front 4,5mm.; base to vertex 3,5mm.; side to side 3,0mm. Another specimen, 5,5 x 4,0 x 5,1 mm.
Hab.—Sixteen miles east of Wollongong in 100 fathoms; several specimens dredged by Mr. G. H. Halligan and self.
Type.—To be presented to the Australian Museum.
The lack of colour and rotund form easily distinguish this from C. violaceus, Angas, the only other member of the genus native to our coast.