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much more conic form, whiter color, etc. The specimens vary a good 

 deal in degree of curvature, some being less, others more curved 

 than the one figured. The Hilo specimens agree well with the 

 figures of E. lahiosa, l)ut I have not had topotypes for comparison. 

 Tryon considered labiosa a synomym of Eidima brevis Sowb., but 

 this appears to me improbable. The description and figure are 

 from a Hilo shell. 



Melanella vafra n- n. Fig. lie,/. 



1867. Eulima inflexa Pease, Amer. Journ. of Conch. Ill, p. 294. Not 

 Phasianella inflexa Blainville, also a Melanella. 



The spire is attenuate above and has a gentle double curvature. 

 There is one series of varices, beginning a little behind the aperture 

 on the penult whorl receding upward to a dorsal position. The 

 outer lip is thin, strongly and evenly arched, the basal margin not 

 retracted. The shell is bluish white, but slightly transparent, 

 having the usual opaque white area behind the lip; sutural border 

 gray. 



Length 8.4, diam. 3.8 mm.; 14 whorls, 



Viti Islands, A. J. Garrett. Type No. 59233 A. N. S. P. Hilo, 

 Hawaii, D. Thaanum. 



Mr. Tryon thought this a synomym of Eulima solida Sowb., but 

 in a considerable series seen, the outer lip is never thickened as 

 Sowerby described and figured for his species. The present form 

 appears to resemble Melanella pyromidalis (A. Ad.), from the Philip- 

 pines, which, however, has a thicker spire. The spire appears a 

 little more curved in a view intermediate between those drawn in 

 figures e and /. 



The Hilo specimens are a little more curved than those from Fiji. 

 One is figured, PI, XIV, fig. 7. 

 Melanella aciculata (Pease). Fig. l la, 6, c. 



1860. Eulima aciculala Pease, P. Z. S., p. 438 (Sandwich Islands). 

 1866.? Eulima aciculata Pease, Sowerby, Conch. Icon! XV, PI. 5, figs. 

 36a, b. Not Pasithea aciculala Lea, 1833, = Strombiformis aciculata (Lea). 



A specimen from the Pease collection. No. 31705 Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., is draw^n in figs. 11a, h. The upper third is quite slightly bent 

 in two directions. There is a slight bulging close to the apex (fig, 

 lib), the earlier three whorls forming a wider cone than the later 

 ones. This is noticeable on both specimens in the Pease collection, 

 but not in those from Hilo. There are very few inconspicuous 

 varices, one each on the penult and next earlier whorls are all I can 

 make out. The suture is a fine line. Some distance below it there 

 is a creamy band (marking the internal suture) in the bluish white 



