258 REV. B. B. WATSON ON THE 



even in. bleached specimens the paler and whiter colour is 

 well marked. 



26. EuLIMA BADIA, 11. Sp. 



Shell small, brilliant, dark brown, conical, with straight 

 contour-lines, a smallish mouth, a rather attenuated base, and a 

 very small tip. Sculpture : there are minute hair-like lines of 

 growth with some very faint superficial and irregular spirals. 

 Colour a deep rich chestnut, darker than in E. fulva ; the 

 extreme point of the base is pale and transparent. Spire high 

 and narrow, conical, with straight contour-lines which do not 

 perfectly correspond on the two sides. Apex exceedingly small 

 and sharp, but round withal. Whorls 9, of exceedingly slow 

 and regular increase and just perceptibly rounded in outline, 

 the first three being markedly more so than the others ; the 

 last one is small, but that is from being short rather than narrow. 

 Mouth oval, rather small, and not much pointed above. Outer 

 lip thin, well arched, with an edge retreating well above and 

 advancing not very much at the periphery. Inner lip very faint 

 on the body, thickened and somewhat expanded on the pillar, 

 behind which is a slight umbilicus ; at the base the pillar is very 

 slightly truncated.— H. 0-1. B. 0-044. 



Very rare. The few known specimens I got at Puuta de Sao 

 Louren^o. 



The sharp apex and larger size differentiate this species 

 markedly from E. fulva, which it resembles in colour. In 

 general appearance it is like E. Jeffrey siana, Brus., but the apex 

 is distinctly sharper, the contour-lines of spire are straighter, the 

 whorls are shorter, of slower iucrease, and of more convex out- 

 line ; in shells of the same length, E. Jeffreysiana has one whorl 

 fewer. I have no doubt some one will say they are the same, 

 but that will none the less be a mistake. Than the young of 

 E. stenostoma, Jeffr., this is much finer in the apex and is broader 

 in its proportions ; like E. gracilis, F. & H., in apex, it is of a 

 stumpier form. Than E. Ehilippii, Weink., this is slimmer, 

 the spire is not bent, the base is mure elongated, the periphery 

 is not carinated. With the young of larger species it is needless 

 to compare so slim and small a form ; a careful comparison 

 fully confirms one's first impression of diversity. 



27. Eulima bhaphium, n. sp. (putyiov, a small needle.) 

 Shell very small, very narrow throughout its whole length 



