120 MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
R. (Moerchiella) spiralis Souverbie.—One specimen seems 
to approach &. artensis Montrouzier, just mentioned. 
R. (Pyramidelloides) miranda Adams.—Several. Probably 
synonymous with £&. zzso/ita Desh. from the Mauritius. A 
curiously sculptured and very beautiful species. 
Barleeia Chasteri sp. nov. (PI. III., fig. 22). 
B. testa minuta, levissima, vix pellucente, anfractibus quingue, 
levibus, ventricosults, ochraceo-brunnets, infra suturas trans- 
versim vitta calcarea succinctis, simul ae apud basin an- 
Sractus ultimt, apertura rotunda, pupineformi, labro fere 
continuo, incrassato. 
Long., 1°75 mill. Lat., 1 mill. 
FHfab., Lifu (in shell-sand). 
Twenty to thirty specimens of this pretty little shell have 
come under our observation. Some specimens are of a darker 
ochreous-brown colour, and therefore show the contrast with the 
chalky white transverse band just below the sutures more dis- 
tinctly than the paler forms. The whorls are five in number, 
and the whole shell is extremely smooth, barely translucent ; 
whorls slightly ventricose ; operculum unknown. 
We think (as pointed out to us by Mr. Edgar Smith) 
that the genus Barleesa fits this species more nearly than any of 
the other Rissoid sectional genera or sub-genera, although we 
believe the seas of Europe alone contain nine-tenths, if not all, 
the hitherto described species of the genus. M. Fischer in- 
cludes Lairbankia bombayana Blanford, however, with Bardeeia, 
and it is probable that it is generally diffused over the tropical 
area—indeed, in Paetel’s Catalogue, some Mauritian and Cali- 
fornian species, not known to us, are included likewise. 
FaMILY CYCLOSTOMATID. 
Omphalotropis granum Pfr.—Common. 
FAMILY TRUNCATELLIDA. 
Truncatella conspicua Brown — T. vitiana Gld..—Not 
uncommon, 
J-C., viii., Oct. 1895. 
