166 PROCEEDINGS OP THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Drillia parceca, n.sp. (PI. IV, Fig. 8.) 



Shell abbreviately fusiform, solid, white, the basal third of the 

 body-whorl ochreous ; whorls 9, including the smooth and globular 

 nuclear, the remainder longitudinally many-ribbed, the ribs being 

 stout, angled, and echinate, crossed by many faint revolving lines. 

 The body-whorl is ten-ribbed. Mouth oblong, outer lip slightly 

 expanded, columellar margin almost straight. Canal wide, 

 abbreviate, sinus well expressed, wide, and fairly deep. 



Long. 19, diam. 7 mm. 



Hah.—'i 



Much stouter in build than B. wilmeri} Smith, from the Andaman 

 Isles, but is nearly allied, the ochreous or chestnut coloration in 

 the lower portion of the body-whorl being very similar. This also 

 obtains in the more recently described D. infrafusca ^ of Sowerby, 

 a broader and coarser species still. {-n-apoiKo^, an ally.) 



Drillia primula, n.sp. (PI. IV, Fig. 9.) • 



Shell small, gradately fusiform, compact ; whorls 8, of which 

 the uppermost two are nuclear, smooth, white, globular, the 

 remainder plicately ridged spirally at the sutures, and, below these, 

 angularly sloping and closely longitudinally ribbed ; ribs crossed, 

 as regards the upper whorls, by two, the body-whorl by four or five 

 spiral incrassate revolving lines, gemmulate, white, and shining 

 at the points of junction with the ribs, interstices oblong. Shell of 

 pale primrose hue, very delicate in colour. Mouth small, oval, 

 outer lip slightly angled centrally and thickened. Columellar 

 margin almost straight, sinus very obscure, canal abbreviate. 



Long. 6, lat. 2 mm. 



Hah. — Cuba. 



Apparently of the same alliance as D. papillosa,^ Garrett, from 

 Fiji, but not so pronounced in sculpture. Dimensions identical. 

 (Primula, a primrose, from the pale lemon colour.) 



Drillia (Crassispira) ochrobrunnea, n.sp. (PI. IV, Fig. 10.) 



Shell oblong-fusiform, solid, yellow or ochreous-brown ; whorls 

 8-9, of which the two nuclear are smooth, globose, blunt 

 at actual apex, the remainder suturally impressed, angled, 

 longitudinally multicostate ; costae smooth, crossed by obscure 

 spiral lines on the body-whorl, more particularly towards the base. 

 Whorls ornamented with spiral rows of white beaded gemmae 

 just below the sutures, and again in several regularly arranged 

 rows on the ribs, and towards the base of the body-whorl. There is, 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 805, pi. 1, fig. 4. 



2 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, pp. 487 sqq. I may add that I have been 

 able to examine the actual type of this species, infrafusca, which, formerly 

 in General Tripe's collection, now belongs to Mr. Sykes. 



3 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1873, p. 218, pi. ii, fig. 29. 



