108 Messrs. J. C. Melvill and J. H. Ponsonby on 



simplici, parvo, plica columellari interna valde ad imam faucem 

 penetrante. 

 Long. 3-50, lat. 1-10 mill. 



Hob. Pietermaritzburg (Quekett). 



A charming little subpellucid species; wliorls six, smooth, 

 excepting just below the sutures, where there is a trace of the 

 oblique longitudinal striation so general a feature in the shells 

 of this genus. The mouth is furnished with five teeth or 

 plaits, three of them being quite simple, while the parietal is 

 scimitar-shaped and penetrating, the columellar also very 

 deep-seated. 



Three specimens. 



12. Ennea pok'ta, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 12.) 



E. testa laeA/i, tenui, pellucida, vitrea, dolioliformi, cylindrica, apice 

 obtnsissimo ; anfractibus septem, liBvibus ; apertura ovata ; peri- 

 stomate vix reflexo, quinqueplicato, plica parietali et labiali magais 

 perintrantibus, dents labiali bifurcate, dente basali minora, 

 simplici, plica columellari valde intrante, conspicua. 



Long. 3, lat. 1-20 mill. 



Hah. Tharfield {Miss j\[ary L. BoicTcer). In Coll. Edgar 

 L. Layard, Esq. 



A small pellucid, shining, smooth species, barrel-shaped ; 

 whorls seven, plain and smooth ; mouth ovate, lip reflexed, 

 white, five-plaited, of which the parietal, labial, and colu- 

 mellar plaits are conspicuous and deep-seated; the basal tooth 

 small and simple ; the labial tooth bifid. 



Five specimens. 



13. Ennea pulchella, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 13.) 



E. testa rimata, pellucida, tenui, dolioliformi, nitida, apice obtuso ; 

 anfractibus sepcem, ventricosulis, infra suturasgranato-marginatis, 

 undiquo longitudinaliter striis obliquis decoratis ; apertura sub- 

 rotunda ; peristomate albo, reflexo, incrassato, plicis vel dentibus 

 quinque munito, plica parietali magna, acinaciformi, iutrante, 

 dentibus duobus labialibus simplicibus, basali parvo simplici, plica 

 columellari perintrante, conspicua. 



Long. 6, lat. 2-85 mill. 



Hah. Chase Krantz, Maritzburg (Buniup). 



A very pretty shining species. It is shortly cylindrical, 

 pellucid, seven- whorled ; whorls slightly vcntricose, delicately 

 longitudinally striate ; close below the sutures there is a 

 transverse pellucid line, the intermediate space being minutely 

 granate; the aperture is roundish; peristome white, tliick- 



