93 MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
only recorded from Honduras! ‘The author of the species 
has examined our specimen and agrees with our deter- 
mination. 
. (Cythara) reticulata Reeve.—Common ; a very elegant 
form. 
. (Cythara) vexillum Reeve.—Abundant. 
. (Daphnella) bella Reeve.—Several specimens of this 
curiously-marked species. 
. (Daphnella) dulcinea sp. nov. (PI. IIL. fig. 25.) 
M. testa fustformt, albida, anfractibus sex, ventricosis, apud 
suturas tmpressts, longitudinaliter costulatis, transverstin 
aelicatult-striatis, fic tlic minutissimé sparsim brunneo- 
punclatis, apertura oblonga, labro exteriore effuso. 
Long., 6 mill. Lat., 2-50 mill. 
Flab., Lifu. 
A very delicately-striated shell, with swollen whorls, im- 
Ss.) (Ss sye 
pressed at the sutures, obscurely longitudinally ribbed ; outer 
lip effuse, under a lens the surface is seen to be very finely 
besprinkled with minute dust-like brown spots. One specimen. 
M. (Daphnella) nexa Reeve. 
M. (Daphnella) saturata Reeve.—Several. 
Besides these there are a few species of minute Plewroto- 

A few only. 
mide that we cannot yet determine. Many species have been 
described, mainly by French conchologists, of which we 
have no representatives in our National or other collections. 
Famity CANCELLARIJDZE. 
Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) costifera Sowerby.—Several 
specimens. ‘This genus seems but poorly represented in 
the Loyalty Islands, although several are described from 
New Caledonia. 
FAMILY OLJVID. 
Oliva (Strephona) episcopalis Lamarck. 
of handsome specimens. 
O. (Strephona) erythrostoma Lamarck.—Very numerous. 
Some specimens unusually large, all in excellent condition 

A large number 
and brilliantly coloured. 
J.C., viii., Oct. 1895, 
