ffmHenrf on «ijme new species of Marginella. 359 



dnplicata ; labio in medio incurvato ; margine lato, piano, cvas- 

 siusculo, super spiram ad plicas columellari extenso ; spira ob- 

 literata (juniorum subacuminata, prominula), anfractibus 4-5 ; 

 canali nullo. 



I^ng- tVo. lat. yJL poll. 



Hab. Albania, m Africa Orientali. Mus. Gaskoin. 



Shell subcylindrical, smooth, shining, thin, semipellueid, very 

 pale browTi colour, veiy finely striated longitudinally; base 

 round; aperture rather straight and narrow, wider anteriorly; 

 columella in the middle portion subventricose, anteriorly atte- 

 nuated and arched, having four oblique plaits ; lips at the middle 

 part incurvated ; margin broad, even, rather thick, covering the 

 spire and extending to the columellar extremity ; spire obliterate 

 (in young specimens rather acuminated, shghtly produced), vo- 

 lutions 4-5 ; channel none. 



^ong j%%, wide J^^ of an inch. 



Hab. Albany, east coast of Africa. Cab. Gaskoin. 



In colour and general form this species is nearest allied to 

 Marg. pallida, Lam., differing in its more cylindrical form, in 

 being marginated, the obliteration of the spire, &c. 



Marginella rufula. 



Testa minima, oblongo-ovata, rufula, Igevi, nitida, crassiuscula ; 

 fasciis quatuor rufis interruptis, antica tertiaque supra labrum 

 saturatioribus, postica ab apertura infra suturam anfractuum ad 

 apicena ornata; lineis albicantibus 7-8 dimidio antico columella 

 arcuatis, circulatim accrescentibus, supra dorsum expansis, unde, 

 ad suturam, aut super anfractus, longitudinaliter continuis ; spira 

 conica (apice subobtuso), ^ testae sequante, anfractibus 5-6, ro- 

 tundatis ; apertura autice subexpansa, postice acuti-angulata, 

 intus pallide rufescente ; columella rectiuscula, plicis quatuor 

 subdistantibus, duabus anticis obliquis prominentioribus ; labro 

 crasso, parum arcuato, intus denticulato ; margine lato, crassius- 

 culo, antice supra dorsum ad extremitatem columellarem desi- 

 nente. Columella, parte antica dorsi, plicis, margine, labroque, 

 albicantibus concoloribus. 



I^ong. T%o_^ lat. tV°o PoU- . 



Hab. ? Mus. Gaskoin, specimen unicura. 



Shell very small, subovate, rather thick, of a light red colour, 

 smooth, shining ; four reddish interrupted bands, the anterior 

 and the third strongly coloured on the lip, the posterior extends 

 from the end of the aperture, below the sutui-e, on to the apex ; 

 seven or eight whitish lines curve from the anterior half of the 

 columella, each in anterior succession expanding in curvature 

 and extending further over the back of the shell, and thence con- 



