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pointed; suture moderately impressed; whorls 6, swollen, sides 

 convex; aperture circular; peristome thickened, continuous, the 

 sutural tube turns obliquely downward from the upper outer 

 margin and widens out gradually ; in two specimens out of four it 

 is horizontal. 



Size: major diameter 7*25, minor yo, alt. axis 14*0 mm. 



Four specimens from Rotung are smaller and more tumid, 

 the largest measuring 12'5X6*5 mm. 



A single large example was sent me from the Miri Hills by 

 Officers of the Survey, lyieuts. R. S. Wahab and C. G. Lewis, R.E. 



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Fig. 2 C. — Rapliaitl lis ahureiisis, n. sp. 

 2 D. — ,, onkesi, n. sp. 



2 E. — ,, sliiniaiigensis, n. sp. 



Raphaulus oakesi, n. sp. 

 (Text-fig. 2D.) 



Locality. — Abor Hills {Capt. G. F. T. Oakes, R.E.). 



Shell cylindrical, rimate, solid; sculpture very fine and regu- 

 lar costulation; colour dark ochraceous; spire moderately high, 

 apex blunt; whorls 5, penultimate somew^hat flattened in front; 

 sutural tube horizontal ; operculum hornyj flat in front of about 

 6 whorls. 



Size: major diameter yo, minor 6'5, alt. axis I3'0 mm. 



This single species was secured with R. aborensis. 



