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convex below the angle ; body-whorl high, moderately convex, con- 

 tracted below. Suture linear, bimarginate. Aperture narrow, sub- 

 rhomboidal. the margins parallel, angled above, with a very short 

 and broad canal below. Outer lip vertical at the middle, lirate within, 

 the lira- corresponding to grooves on the outside, edge sharp. Columella 

 straight above, forming a blunt angle with the parietal wall, slightly 

 turned to the left below, smooth, twisted and with a distinct fold at 

 the base. Inner lip narrow and thin. Operculum unknown. 



Diameter, 3 mm. ; height, 7-1 mm. 



A nimal unknown. 



Type in my collection. 



Hab. Foveaux Strait. 



2. Alcira laBvigata, Suter, 1908. Plate 19, hg. 24. 



Alciru IcKVujnta, Suter, P. Mai. S., viii, 1908, 181, pi. 7, f. S. 



Shell small, thin, translucent, elongately oval, smooth, faintly 

 shining, white. Sculpture confined to a few oblique ridges on the 

 lower part of the base. Colour yellowish-white, sometimes faintly 

 marbled with pure - white. Spire elevated conic, about the same 

 height as the aperture ; outlines almost straight. Protoconcb of 1^ 

 smooth porcellanous and polished whorls, the nucleus a little oblique. 

 IVhorls 5, regularly increasing, lightly convex, the last rounded and 

 contracted at the base. Suture deep. Aperture subvertical, high and 

 narrow, lightly channelled above, and with a very short widely opeti 

 canal below. Outer lip lightly curved, sharp, but little thickened. 

 Columella vertical, with a deep-seated oblique fold at the base. Inner 

 lip very narrow and thin, extending over the flattish parietal wall. 

 Operculuni. unknown . 



Diameter, 1-8 mm. : height. 4-1 mm. 



Animal unknown. 



Type in my collection. 



Hab. Five miles south of Cuvier Island, in 38 fathoms, type 

 (Captain Bollons) : off Great Barrier Island, in 110 fathoms. 



3. Alcira sanguinea, Suter, 1908. Plate 19, fig. 25. 



Alcira sanguinea, Suter, P. Mai. S., viii, 1908, 181, pi. 7, f. 7. 



Shell small, elongately ovate, smooth, not shining, crimson. There 

 is no sculpture except the fine growth-lines. Colour crimson : dead 

 shells are pinkish. Spire high, conic, about 1| times the height of the 

 aperture ; outlines straight. Protoconch sometimes slightly oblique, 

 of 1^ smooth whorls, papillate. Whorls 6, regularly increasing, flattish, 

 the last rather large, rounded and contracted at the base. Suture 

 impressed. Aperture vertical, narrowly ovate, lightly channelled 

 above, with a short and widely open canal below. Outer lip thick, 

 with a blunt edge, smooth inside, almost straight above, curved below. 



