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is here given. Accortlins; to Fisclicr, PJiotinula has no jaw. The 

 character of the radiila and presence of a jaw induce me to class this 

 species under Gihhula. 



Type in the British Museum. 



34. GlBBULA MICANS, n.sp. 



Shell minute, subperforate or imperforate, conical, iridescent, 

 shining, light-yellow with radiate oblique broad streaks of dark-brown, 

 the intervals Avith a few dots of light-brown ; base tessellated with 

 yellow and brown. Whorls 6, the first two minute, smooth, reddish- 

 brown, the others finely spirally striate, about 15 stria3 on the 



Gihbula iiiicans, n.sp. 



penultimate whorl ; spire conic, scarcely convex, last whorl carinate. 

 Aperture subquadrangular, oblique, outer and basal lij) sharp, 

 margined with a white band ; interior lirate, iridescent ; columella 

 subvertical, slightly arched, subdentate in the middle. Umbilicus 

 partly or completely covered by the columellar expansion. Base con- 

 vex, umbilical tract slightly impressed, white. Alt. 4, diam. 3-5 mm. 



Ifab. — Resolution I. (A. Hamilton). 



Type in my collection. 



Genus M0:N"ILEA, Swainson, 1840. 



35. MoNILEA EGENA (Gould). 



Solarium cgenum, Gould: Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. iii (1849), 



p. 84 ; U.S. Explor. Exped., Moll. p. 196, fig. 226. 

 Monilea Zealandica, Hutton : Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 40. 

 Margarita Zelandica (Hutton): Sowerby, Conch. Icon., fig. 17. 

 Torinia egena (Gould): Marshall in Tryon's Man. Conch., ser. i, vol. ix, 



p. 22, pi. vi, figs. 22, 23. 

 Monilea cgena (Gould) : Hutton, Man. New Zealand Moll., p. 102 ; 



Proc. Liim. Soc. New South Wales, vol. ix, p. 365 ; 



Pilsbry, Man. Conch., ser. i, vol. xi, p. 253, pi. xxxvii, 



fig. 13. 



Shell small, low, ovate -conic, urabilicated, ashy -white, pearly 

 beneath. Whorls 6, each with four sharply compressed spiral ribs, 



