278 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOQICAL SOCIETY. 



NEW SrECIES OF SHELLS FROM KURACHI AND THE MEKRAN 

 COAST, COLLECTED BY MR. F. W. TOWXSEND. 



By G. B. SowERBY, F.L.S., etc. 



Head April \2th, 1895. 



PLATE XVIII. 



1. Manoilta Townsenbt, n.sp. PI. XVIIT, Figs. 1 and 2. 

 Testa elongato-fusiformi, attenuata, antice breviter acuminata, 



postice elongato-turrita ; griseo-virescens, fusco transvcrsim lineata, 

 nigro-fusco interruptira fasciata; spira elata, acuta; anfractus obtu- 

 sissime angulati, spiraliter subtilissime striati, lougitutlinaliter costati ; 

 costis 9, rotundatis ; anfractus ultiinus spiram fere aequans, infra 

 anguluni levitor convexixs, basin versus attenuatus, vix rostratus ; 

 apertura oblonga, angustiuscula, intus sub-obsolete lirata ; columella 

 rectiuscula ; labrum acutum, extus incrassatum. Long. 13, diam. 

 3-80 mm. 



Ilah. — Mekran Coast. 



Of this beautiful little shell several specimens were received. The 

 species approaches in form the European M. attenuata, but it is larger, 

 the spire proportionately longer, whilst the whorls are slightly 

 shouldered. The transverse striae arc very fine, and the longitudinal 

 ribs regular and rounded. The colour is yellowish white, suffused 

 with greyish green, with transverse lines of light brown, and a dark 

 brown band, interrupted by the ribs, at the angle of the whorls, and 

 another near the base of the body-whorl. 



2. BuLLiA NiTiDA, n.sp. PI. XVIII, Figs. 3 and 4. 



Testa elongato-pyraraidalis, antice leviter inflata, postice acuminata, 

 polita, pallide fulva, rufo-aurantio bifasciata ; spira acute turrita, ad 

 apicem mucronata ; anfractus 10, Icvissime convexi, superne sidcis 

 angustis 3-5 fere obsoletis insculpti, juxta suturam lira angusta 

 callosa instructi; anfr. ultimus spiram vix opquans, convexus, basin 

 versus inflatus; basis alba, valdc sulcata, brevissime rostrata; apertura 

 mediocriter lata ; columella contorta ; labrum tenue. Operculum 

 tenuissimum, antice acuminatum, leviter curvatum. Long. 17, 

 diam. 1 1 mm. 



//«5.— Mekran Coast. 



This shell docs not approximate very closely to any known species. 

 Its foi-m is something like that of B. Malaharica, from which, in other 

 respects, it differs entirely. It is a smooth shining shell with a narrow 

 ridge at the sutui-e, below which are a few almost obsolete grooyi's ; 

 there are no signs of longitudinal plica^ and the basal ridge 

 characteribtic of most of the BuUice is wanting. 



