334 MELANESIAN NESOPUP^E. 



ing and entering deeply; two parietal, the first very small, 

 running inward and descending, the second very large, 

 placed far forward, projecting beyond the peristome, a little 

 oblique towards the right side but perpendicular to the axis. 

 Finally, the last tooth is placed within the base of the lower 

 margin, and is a lamina which runs from right to left. The 

 peristome is thick, reflected, excavated at the upper right 

 margin opposite the large fold which projects beyond it, and 

 which causes the peristome to form a quite distinct callous- 

 projection in % of the right margin. 

 Length 4, diam. 2^/2 mm. (Gassies). 



Loyalty group : Lifu. Lives under ferns and in the moss 

 (R. P. Lambert). 



Pupa lifcwana GASSIES, Fauna 'Conch. N. Caled., part 2, 

 1871, p. 98 ; Journal de Conch., xxi, 1873, p. 53, pi. 2, f. 8. 

 SOWERBY, Conch. Icon., pi. 4, f. 28. PPEIPFEB, Mon. Hel. 

 Viv., viii, 376. 



31. NESOPUPA MARIEI (Crosse). PL 31, fig. 24. 



Shell narrowly perforate-rimate, subglobose, ventricose, 

 rather thin, subtranslucid, seen under a strong lens to be 

 very delicately, subobliquely striatulate, fleshy-buff, unicol- 

 ored. Spire moderately elevated, the apex obtuse. Suture 

 impressed. Whorls 4%, convex, the last scarcely one-third 

 the length, slightly contracted near the aperture. Aperture 

 subvertical, lunate-rotund, colored like the outside. Peri- 

 stome very strongly thickened, reflected, violaceous; the colu- 

 mellar margin short, the basal rounded, the outer slightly 

 sinuous, towards the insertion somewhat emarginate, taper- 

 ing, somewhat scrobiculate externally. Parietal margin with 

 two minute teeth, the larger near the insertion of the outer 

 lip, the other more deeply placed, not conspicuous. 



Length 2, diam. scarcely 1.5 mm.; aperture 1.5 mm. long, 

 scarcely % mm. wide (Crosse). 



New Caledonia: near Noumea (E. Marie). 



Pupa mariei CROSSE, Journ. de Conch., xix, 1871, p. 202;. 

 xx, 1872, p. 358, pi. 16, f . 3 ; xlii, 1894, p. 303. 



