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A highly interesting little shell. It is narrowly umbilicate, 

 fusiform, roundly turreted, dirty white, seven whorled, two being 

 apical and glassy, the rest somewhat compressed, closely variced, 

 the lamellae twice or thrice crenulate or undulose, the spaces 

 between are smooth, the aperture roundly oval, the lip is 

 thickened, without wavy-wrinkled, and towards the columellar 

 base it is slightly produced. Seeming from the figure to be 

 near S. soluta Ad. One specimen, but quite full-grown. 

 (epavvos, lovely.) 



S. exomila sp. nov. (PL IX., fig. 8). 



S. testa imperforate!, parva, gradato-fusiformi, turrita, 

 albida, versus apieem attenuata, anfractibus sex, undique 

 arete lamellatis, lamellis crassis, albis, interstitiis sub lente 

 transversim striatulis, apertura rotunda, peristomate l&vi, 

 crassiusculo, continuo. 

 Long., 4, Lat., 1-50 mill. 



A minute, but full-grown species, with distinctive characters, 

 the whorls are turreted, attenuate towards the apex, contracted 

 at the sutures. The lamella; ore thick, dirty white, slightly 

 angled below the sutures, and very finely striate at the interstices. 

 Mouth round, peristome thickened, smooth and continuous. 

 (<=£o/;jAo5, a stranger). 



Drillia ione sp. nov. (PI. IX., fig. 9). 



D. testa incrassata, fusiformi, pallide violacea, apud basim 

 paullum expansa, anfractibus septem vel octo, ventrieosulis, 

 apud suturas impressis, longitudinaliter crassicostatis, costis 

 paueis, spiraliter undique tenuissime liratis, interdum dorsa- 

 liter brunneo suffusis, interstitiis sub lente mire decussatulis, 

 apertura lata, ovali, labro exteriore incrassato, transversim 

 striatulo simul ae in anfractibus, canali brevi, lato, margine 

 columellari simplice. 

 Long., 5, Lat., 3 mill. 



A chaste pale violet species, with occasional brown dorsal 

 shading, small, of thickened fusiform build, longitudinally 

 thickly costate, the costre few in number. Sometimes, indeed, 

 the ground colour is pale-brown or ochre, while other specimens 



