478 Messrs. J. C. Melvill and J. H. Ponsonby on 
LXV.—Descriptions of Five new Species of Ennea from 
South Africa. By JAMES Cosmo MeELviLL, M.A., F.L.S., 
and JOHN Henry Ponsonny, F'.Z.5. 
[Plate XVIIL.] 
THE following species of Hnnea, in most instances considerably 
smaller than those hitherto described from the South-African 
region, were received by Mr. Wotton from the neighbourhood 
of Grahamstown, and by him placed in our hands for deter- 
mination. 
Ennea cimolia, sp. n. (Pl. XVIII. fig. 2.) 
E. testa cylindracea, minuta, recta, tenui, nitida, apud apicem com- 
pressa ; anfractibus sex, ventricosis, nitidis, ad suturas paullum 
impressis, omnino levibus; apertura ovata, labro incrassato, 
pellucido, dentibus vel plicis tribus instructo, plica parictali magna, 
intrante, dente labiali conspicuo, plica marginem subtus colu- 
mellarem semicelata, effusa. 
Long. 2°75, lat. 1:25 mm. 
Hab, Grahamstown. 
A very delicate transparent shining little mollusk, with 
whorls perfectly smooth ; mouth ovate; peristome with three 
rocesses, of which the parietal plait is deep-seated, the 
labial tooth conspicuous, the columellar plait being effuse, 
large, and half-concealed. 
Ennea Farquhari, sp.n. (Pl. XVIII. figs. 3-5.) 
E, testa minuta, rimata, dolioliformi, tenui, nitida; anfractibus sex, 
ventricosis, ad suturas multum impressis, undique longitudinaliter 
pulchre striatis; apertura ovato-triangulari, labro inerassato, 
dentibus vel plicis quatuor instructo, plica parietali magna, acina- 
ciformi, acuta, valde prominente, dente labiali bipartito, plica 
columellari minore, simplici. 
Long. 3, lat. ] mm. 
Hab. Grahamstown. 
Several specimens, two being in exceptionally fine and live 
condition, quite transparent, with yellow-rose hue. The 
species being somewhat variable, we give three representations 
of it. It is tun-shaped, minute, thin, shining, six-whorled ; 
whorls ventricose, beautifully longitudinally striate, beneath 
triangularly ovate ; outer lip thickened, mouth adorned with 
four processes, the parieta] plait being large, scimitar-shaped, 
