162 moCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



DESCmrTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EXGIXA {E. EPIBROMIBEA) 

 FROM BOMBAY. 



By James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., etc. 



Read June 8th, 1894. 



Engina epidromidea, n.sp. 



E. testa fusiformi, perlonga, crassiuscula, albida, flammis ochraceis 

 decorata, anfraetibus septem vel octo, ventricosis, apud suturas com- 

 pressis, longitudinaliter costatis, costis tumescentibus, liic illic varicosis, 

 transversim lirieinctis, liris ad costas sscpius albis, nitentibus, in- 

 crassatis, apcrtura constricta, oblonga, labro oxteriore plus minusvc 

 incrassato, canali brevi. 

 Long. 1-5, lat. -5 vine. : — 



Ifab. — Bombay (Alexander Abercrombie, one specimen). Three 

 received from the same locality by ^Ir. G. B. Sowerby. 



This curious species, though differing from all the other forms now 



relegated to the genus JEnr/iiia in its long fusiform shape, yet to my 



mind presents characteristics of near affinity to £. zea, 



Melv., £. armillata, Beeve, both from l^ombay, and 



other Eastern species. To certain Peristernice and Latiri 



it also bears a superficial resemblance, but is without 



tlie columellar plaits. Like Epidromus, it possesses 



swollen longitudinal varices, irregularly disposed, and 



in form approaches Cant hams gracilis, Bceve, now placed 



by some authors in the genus Meiula, H. and A. Ad. To 



sum up, it is a puzzling shell, and its true position 



. may not be finally settled until a live specimen 



Engtna ept ro- ^^ procured, showing the operculum and lingual 



dentition. 



Of the five examples I have seen, one has been in my collection, 



without locality, for many years ; the other four are as given above. 



A representative specimen from among the latter has been placed in 



our National Collection at South Kensington, and from this the 



accompanying figure has been drawn. 



