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obtuse, subdepressed, decussated; the following are ornamented 

 with sublamellose radiating stride, bicarinate below, pale yellowish, 

 ornamented with greenish or chestnut flammules, and white dots ; 

 last whorl augulated, bicarinate in the middle, the carinse subgranose; 

 base concentrically lirate ; aperture circular, descending ; lip thin, 

 acute. Alt. 10, diam. 5 mill. (Fischer.) 



Island of Mayotte, Comoro Archipelago. 



T. (Gibbula) inaiiei FJSCHER, Journ. deConchyl. 1886, p. 72, t. 1, 

 f. 5. 



M. HOLDS WORTH AN A G. & H. Nevill. PL 40, fig. 24. 



Shell small, narrowly but deeply perforate, conical-turritted, thin, 

 lusterless, whitish, mottled with greenish-brown above, base densely 

 marked with dark brownish or greenish ; spire elevated, apex acute, 

 yellowish, sutures profound ; whorls 5, the median portion encircled 

 by three prominent keels, the upper two visible on the spire ; base 

 with a few coarse but not deep spiral sulci, carinated around the 

 funnel-shaped umbilicus ; aperture subcircular, iridescent within ; lip 

 fragile, columella thin, concave; umbilicus with several obscure 

 spiral sulci inside. Alt. 4-4 2, diam. 3s-3f mill. 



Ceylon; Singapore. 



Gibbula holdsivorthana G. & H.^EVILL, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 1871, pt. 2, p. 3, t. 1, f. 18Minolia variabilis AD. P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 207, t. 23, f. 10. 



Numerous specimens collected by ARCHER, at Singapore, are be- 

 fore me. This is a broader species than M. mariei, more widely 

 umbilicate, and differently sculptured. The oblique stria? of incre- 

 ment are scarcely visible. 



M. SUBPLICATA G. &. H. ISevill. PL 40, fig. 34. 



Shell turbinate, thin, semipellucid, white ; whorls 5, tubular, flat- 

 tend at the suture, spirally ridged; ridges 3 on the penultimate whorl, 

 very prominent, widely separated by deep interstices, on upper 

 whorls transversely cancellated, on the last delicately spirally 

 striated; whorls transversely plicate at sutures; base subconvex, 

 narrowly umbilicate, ornamented by 4 spiral ridges, the two inter- 

 stices next the umbilicus transversely costulate; aperture nearly 

 circular, surrounded by a simple margin ; inner lip moderately 

 arcuate ; inside slightly pearly. Alt. 5, diam. 4 mill. (Nevill.") 



S. Province Ceylon. 



