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DESCRIPTIOXS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF 3IELANIA FROM 

 NEW IRELAND AND KELANTAN. 



By II. B. PKESTOjf, F.Z.S. 



HeridSfh 3Inrch, 1907. 



Melania Nov^-Hibeeni^, n.sp. 



Shell sharply subulate, rather thin, pale yellowish brown ; remaining 

 whorls 12, sculptured with coarse oblique ribs and fine spiral striae; 

 the latter more numerous in the region of the sutures, while the ribs 



become obsolete below the periphery ; sutures impressed ; peristome 

 simple, produced, the margins joined by a slight callus; aperture 

 ovate. Long. 32, diam. maj. 9mm.; aperture, long. 8-5, diam. 

 3'5mm. 



Mab. — New Ireland. 



Melania Browni, n.sp. 



Shell subulate, solid, dull yellowish brown, a pale band appearing 

 just below the sutures ; remaining whorls 9, the earlier convolutions 



being sculptured with closely set costoe, which are split up by spiral 

 grooves on the later whorls into four or five rows of nodules; these 



