BY JOHN BRAZIER. 347 



curved shelly jjlates numbering about forty-fovir, giving the edge 

 of the shoulder the appearance of being coronated with triangular 

 pointed nodes ; outer lip sinuous, forming an oblique posterior 

 deep narrow sinus. 



This is connected with Gomis and Pleuroloma and may be 

 placed under the former genus for the present until the animal is 

 known. 



Kenyonia pulcherrima, n.sp. 



Shell subcylindrical, rather thin, smooth, sometimes marked 

 with faint slightly curved longitudinal lines of growth; whorls 8, 

 tabled at the suture, each one being connected with small curious 

 shelly plates that look like small deep pits when the shell is looked 

 at end-on from the apex, giving the edge of the shoulder a 

 coronated appearance, with triangular pointed nodes ; last whorl 

 more than half the length of the whole shell, ornamented with 

 longitudinal reddish brown streaks and blotches, some of a zig-zag 

 pattern, the three upper or apical flesh colour, smooth; outer lip 

 sinuous, having an oblique posterior deep narrow sinus; columella 

 .straight; interior of aperture white. 



Long. 28, last whorl 17, the others 12; diam. maj. 10 mm. 



Hab. — New Hebrides (i4. /''. Keuyon). 



This very j^retty shell Mrs. Kenyon showed me some three years 

 ago when in Sydney; she now writes (19,5/96) : — "The curious 

 shell I now send I used to think was a Cone. I do not think any 

 more have been or are likely to be found. I goj; it from a man who 

 with his family had been over ten years resident in Fiji and the 

 New Hebrides. The natives used to collect and bring him shells. 

 There were some hurricanes during their residence, after which 

 they used to pick up shells. I have had it in my possession about 

 three years." 



The shell being thin, I should take it to be a deep water species. 

 The very curious little curved shelly plates at the suture make it 

 coronated with small triangular shaped nodes; in places the suture 

 is canaliculated and small rough shelly plates stand up somewhat 

 like a minute roadway. 



