PRESTON: ON NEW SPECIES OF LIMICOLAHIA. 



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lilac, showing the flame-markings through the test. Alt. 40-5, diani. 

 maj, 18mm. Aperture: alt. 16'5, diam. 7'75ram. 



Ilab. — Jombene Hills, British East Africa (A. Blayney Percival). 



LiMICOLAEIA SCABROSA, U.Sp. 



Shell fusiform, with dark flesh-coloured apical whorls, gradually 

 changing to brownish yellow, and ])ainted with transverse blotches, 

 streaks, and flame-markings of dark blackish-purple ; whorls 6J, 

 regularly increasing, the last rather large, coarsely, decussately 

 sculptured throughout, thus presenting a somewhat scabrous appear- 

 ance ; sviture impressed, crenellated by the decussate sculpture, and 



narrowly margined below ; columella whitish, descending in a gentle 

 curve; labrum thin, acute; aperture somewhat dilated below, in- 

 versely auriform ; interior of sliell flesh-coloured, the transverse streaks 

 and flame-markings being visible through the test. Alt. 61 mm. ; 

 diam. maj. 28-5, min. 25 mm. Aperture : alt. 30, diam. 16-5 mm. 



