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slighter ribs, j^et with a misleading superficial resemblance. As the story 

 of the Lifuau species has been entangled with that of the South Australian, 

 it seems well to deal with the error as detected, though the limits of this 

 papei' are thereby exceeded, and to offer the following description of the 

 nameless shell. 



LlE.\AKI>lA I'AI.SAKIA n. sp. 



(Plate xlviii., fig. 88.) 



Shell ovate-fusiform, very solid. Whorls six. Colour white, with 

 ochraceoHS-orange as a peripheral zone, re-appearing ou the spire, about 

 the suture, again on the inner lip, and as a spot ou the extremity of the 

 snout. Sculpture : — The radial ribs are about nine to a whorl ; uot 

 continuous from whorl to whorl ; angled, and projecting at the shoulder, 

 evanescent on the fasciole, but reappearing as a subsutural bead, on the 

 last whorl diminishing towards the base, which they scarcely reach ; both 

 ribs and interspaces traversed by rather coarse, even, spiral thieads. 

 Aperture oblong, protected by a rather prominent arcuate varix, which is 

 produced into a broad free edge, and incised by a rather deep sinus ; inner 

 lip with a stout tubercle at the sinus, and six horizontal ridges diminishing 

 from above to below ; on the opposite side are nine small pustules beneath 

 the varix. 



l[ah. Loyalty Islands : — Lif u. New Caledonia. 



En; EM A I'OEYLiESMA ^p. VOV. 



(Plate xlvii., fig. 83.) 



Shell small, spire slender and much elevated, shoulder of the whorls 

 angled, base a little concave. Colour buff, chestnut on the base and both 

 sides of the mouth. Whorls seven, including a three-whorled protocouch 

 of the usual type. Sculpture: — On the last whorl are twenty spirals, of 

 which twelve are on the base and snout, and thi-ee on the shouldei' ; where 

 the central seiies enlai-ge and cross over the radials they look like links in 

 a chain ; between these major spii-als run microscopic haii'-lines ; on the 

 last whorl are twelve perpendicular consecutive i-adials, which undulate 

 the suture, attain greatest development pn the periphery, and gradually 

 disappear on the base. Apertuie: — Varix large, with a peaked hump; 

 beneath it aie six small teeth ; columella unarmed ; sinus broad and 

 expanding. Length 45 mm., breadth 1-5 mm. 



This fdi'm was misi(li'ntitii.'(l by invself"'' fmni Mast Head Island as 

 ( II iijiliOftonKi pol ijncsieiixe. 



Ildh. Queensland : — 15 fathoms. Palm Islands (type); 5 to 10 fathoms, 

 Hope Island ; 5 to 8 fathoms, Muri-ay Island ; 4 to 14 fathoms, Albany 

 Passage (self) ; 10 fathoms. Cape Sidmoath (Henn). 



Hedley— Pi'oc. Liun. Soc. N.S.W., .\x.\ii., li»()7. ]>. iSt. 



