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microscopic irregular spiral strise. Colour white, shining. 

 Spire much longer than the body-whorl, slender and tapering. 

 Protoconch consists of about two smooth rounded whorls, 

 with the nucleus heterostrophe. Whorls 7, regularly increas- 

 ing, lightly convex, body-whorl with a minute thread-like 

 carina only noticeable in front of the aperture ; base rounded. 

 Suture channelled. Aperture ovato- quadrate, vertical. Outer 

 lip sharp, curved. Inner lip spread over the straight stoutish 

 columella, which is reflected ; the columellar twist producing 

 an indistinct fold ; anteriorly the lip is sharp, produced, and 

 somewhat flattened. Altitude, 3 - 21 mm. ; diameter, - 82 mm. 



Type in the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 



Obs. A single dead specimen, not in very good condition. 

 It is the first record of the genus for New Zealand, Pyramidella 

 rosea, Hutton, having been transferred to the genus Colum- 

 bella. 



47. Eulima vegrandis, n. sp. Plate XXV, figs. 40, 41. 



Shell small, subulate, imperforate, straight, smooth and 

 glossy. Sculpture absent, except an occasional interrupted 

 varix. Colour white, porcellaneous. Spire straight, many- 

 whorled, narrowly elevated, terminating in a sharp and slender 

 apex. Protoconch of about two smooth whorls, very slightly 

 curved from the axis of the shell, nucleus minute, rounded. 

 Whorls 11, with straight sides, the last less than half the total 

 length, indistinctly angled at the periphery ; base convex. 

 Suture linear, on the lower whorls with a minutely submarginate 

 appearance. Aperture pyriform, angled above, slightly oblique, 

 rounded and a little effuse at the base. Outer lip lightly curved 

 and thickened, feebly sinuated below the insertion. Inner lip 

 spread narrowly as a distinct callus from the outer lip over 

 the body and the slightly excavated columella, reflected and 

 united with the effuse lower lip. Altitude, 6 - 9 mm. ; dia- 

 meter, T9mm. 



Type in the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 



Obs. Only one dead shell. 



48. Eulima infrapatula, n. sp. Plate XXV, fig. 42. 

 Shell small, subulate, imperforate, broadened at the base 

 which is distinctly angulate, tapering to a sharp slender apex 

 which is slightly curved ; thin, smooth, and glossy. Sculp- 

 ture consists of minute spiral incisions, scarcely noticeable 

 or absent except upon the last whorl. Colour white, glossy. 

 Spire narrowly conical, tapering rapidly to a subacicular apex 

 which is oblique and somewhat distorted. Protoconch formed 

 by a few smooth convex whorls, nucleus minute, rounded. 



