304 MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 



Extremely minute. Shell oval, obtuse, livid pink grey, in 

 facies much like Zafra pupoidea Ad. in miniature. The last 

 whorl, at the apex of the smallest specimen, is twisted over the 

 next, as is the habit of most of the Odostomicc. The other 

 whorls are longitudinally densely ribbed, the interstices between 

 being smooth. The mouth is ovate, peristome continuous, 

 columellar margin with a strong single plait or fold. A few 

 specimens, (dim. of glis, a dormouse). 



Syrnola jaculum sp. nov. (PI. XI., fig. 58). 



S. testa acuta, attenuata, tenui, vitrea, anfractibus undecim, 

 omnibus applanatis, in uno specimine quinque anfractibus 

 super ioribus pallide apud medium brunneo-liratis, in ceeteris 

 omnino unicoloribus, apertura attenuata obliqua, labro tenui, 

 columella uniplicata. 

 Long., 8, Lat. 2 mill. 



Seven specimens of a pure white shining crystalline Syrnola, 

 eleven whorled, whorls straight, very slightly channelled at the 

 sutures, in one specimen only the five higher whorls, next to the 

 apical, are delicately spirally twice zoned with narrow ochraceous 

 brown lines, these becoming obsolete in the lower whorls. The 

 other specimens have no trace of such banding. The whorls 

 are perfectly smooth ; mouth oblique ; lip simple ; columella 

 once plaited. {Jaculum, a dart, from the pointed contour). 



S. violacea sp. nov. (PI. XL, fig. 59). 



.V. testa attenuata, Icevi, nitida, duobus anfractibus apicalibus 

 diaphanis, ceteris violaceis, unicotoribus, Icevissimis, infra 

 suturas inter nam ob plicam transversim quasi unilineoiatis, 

 ultimo anfractu ad basim pallescente, apertura obliqua, labro 

 simp/ice, columella uniplicata. 

 Long., 11, Lat., 2-50 mill. 



A smooth violaceous shell, ten whorled, quite plain ex- 

 cepting for the line of the revolving plica showing through each 

 whorl transversely just below the sutures ; mouth somewhat 

 oblique, outer lip plain, columellar one-plaited. Three speci- 

 mens, but only one in first-class condition. 



T.C., viii., Oct., 1896, 



