PRESTON : XEW SPECIES OF LIMICOLAHIA. 1 1 1 



labrum acute, simple; aperture inversely auriform; interior of shell 

 pale bluish lilac, the transverse flame-markings being visible through 

 the test. Alt. 45-5 mm. ; diam. maj. 24-75, min. 22-5 mm. ; aperture, 

 alt. 23, diam. 12 mm, 



JTab. — Between the Igembi Hills and Xyeri, British East Africa 

 (Robin Kemp). 



LiJiicoLAKiA (Bebmanniella) perobtusa, n.sp. 



Sliell rimate, ovately fusiform, with extremely obtuse apex, the 

 earlier whorls pale flesh-coloured, the median whorls yellow, stained 

 here and there with chestnut and painted with blotches and transverse 

 flame-markings of livid, blackish purple, the last whorl shading below 

 to reddish chestnut ; whorls 6h, regularly increasing, the last convex 

 below, coarsely granulate throughout ; suture impressed, irregularly 

 crenellate, narrowly margined below with white or pale yellow ; 

 columella whitish, very faintly tinged with pale lilac, vertically 



descending and narrowly reflexed over the perforation ; umbilicus 

 reduced to a narrow chink ; labrum simple, lilac-coloured within ; 

 aperture elongately inversely auriform, Alt. 55 mm. ; diam. maj. 27'5, 

 min. 25-25 mm.; aperture, alt. 26, diam. 12 mm, 



Hah. — Mount Kenaugop, Aberdare Bange, British East Africa 

 (Bobin Kemp). 



A very handsome species, whose granular sculpture and extra- 

 ordinarily obtuse form readily separate it from other members of 

 the group. 



VOL. X.— JUNE, 191-2. 



