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NEW MARINE SHELLS FROM THE SOLOMON 

 ISLANDS AND AUSTRALIA. 



By John Brazier, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. 



L VoLUTA Kenyoniana, n.sp. 



Shell ovately fusiform, thick, narrow; whorls 6, flattened; spire 

 rather short; apex papillose, suture narrow, very much depressed 

 and hollowed below, longitudinally somewhat obliquely ribbed 

 with 19-20 obtuse ribs showing more prominently on the angle, 

 side, base and the upper whorls; fulvous, reticulated and banded, 

 fulvous-chestnut; aperture large; columella straight, with 4 plaits, 

 the lower one long and narrow, second much thinner on the edge, 

 thicker in the centre, third short and broad, fourth or upper 

 more obtuse at the edge; peristome angulated, thickened in the 

 middle, thinner at the posterior and anterior ends, interior of the 

 aperture pale orange. 



Length 137; breadth 46; alt. 37 mm. 



Hah. — Cape Everard, Victoria (Coll. Mrs. Evans). 



The specimen is in fine colour, but through rough knocking 

 alDout on the beach where found a portion of the apex and a little 

 of the upper and lower parts of the lip are broken off. The 

 obtuse ribs remind one very much of such forms as Voluta 

 mitrceformis, lyrceformis, nucleus, deliciosa, Delessertiana. But for 

 size it might be taken for a ribbed form of VoluteUa jjapillosa, 

 Swa. Mrs. Evans, through the kind mediation of Mrs. Kenyon, 

 forward-ed me the specimen for examination. 



2. VoLUTA RossiTERi, n.sp. 



Shell ovately fusiform, thin, longitudinally finely striated ; 

 whorls 6, flattened, the three upper strongly riljbed, apex when 



