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- This species may be compared with N. succinea, inhabiting the 
West Indies. 
EvLIMA SUBPELLUCIDA*, 
E. ¢. elongata, pyramidali, alba, nitida, subpellucida, polita, 
tenuiore, apice submucronato; anfr. ix., plano-convexis, vir 
tenuiter decussato-striatis, ultimo ventricoso, ad peripheriam 
subangulato ; suturis subimpressis, marginatis ; apertura elon- 
. gato-ovata ; labro tenut. 
Long. 16, diam. 7 mill. 
PuRPURA MARMORATA. 
P. t. oblongo-ovata, solida, spira acuminata, acuta, conica ; anfr. 
transversim impresso-striatis, infra suturas vix concavis, ultimo 
medio biseriatim, spira uniseriatim tuberculatis, tuberculis 
compressis ; anfr. ultimo infra biseriatim obsolete noduloso ; 
apertura supra subcanaliculata, intus lirata ; albicanti-rubra, 
Jusco marmorata. 
Long. 50 mill. 
This form is allied to P. mancinella. 
CypR2A FUSCO-MACULATA. 
C. t. oblongo-ovata, vie umbilicata, latere dextro subangulato, 
marginato, extremitatibus productis; apertura subflexuosa, 
angusta, dentibus parvis; albicante, ad dorsum irregulariter 
castaneo-fusco picta, lateribus fusco punctatis, extremitatibus 
_  maculis castaneo-fuscis conspicue ornatis. 
Long. 13, diam. 7 mill. 
We have a number of specimens of the above species in our col- 
lection from different localities, all of them more or less worn. It is 
allied to ‘* C. goodallit,” from which the spots on both sides of the 
extremities serve to distinguish it ; they are conspicuous and never 
absent, even on those most weathered. 
CypR#A CANDIDAT. 
C. t. oblongo-ovata, omnino alba, lateribus subincrassatis rotun- 
datis, basi rotundata; extremitatibus vix productis, subre- 
flexis ; longitudinuliter tenuissime striata ; apertura subflex- 
uosa, dentibus fortibus subdistantibus instructa, interstis pro- 
funde incisis. 
Long. 15, diam. 8 mill. 
PLANAXIS ABBREVIATA. 
P. ¢. ovata, solida, purpureo-nigrescente, intus purpurea; spira 
brevi, acuta; suturis bene impressis ; anfr. V., convexis, spira- 
liter striatis, striis interdum in medio anfractus ultimi evanes- 
centibus ; apertura ovata, superne sulcata ; labro margine in- 
* —Stylifer pyramidalis, Pse., MS.; allied to Eulima pyramidalis, A. Ad. 
T Not to be confounded with Trivia candida.—P. P. C. 
