JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 31 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF 

 SHELLS. 



By JAMES COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S. 



(Read before the Conchological Society, Dec. isth, 1S88, and recommended for publication 

 by the referees, Mr. E. A. Smith and the Rev. R. B. Watson). 



Coralliophila Andamana (sp. nov.) PI. ii, fig. i. 



Testa ovata, muriciformi, ad basem attenuata, longitudinaliter 

 plicocostata, costis paitcis, rotimdatis, transversim elegaiiter 

 sqiiamiiloso-liratis, faiice violacea. 



Long. ly, lat. 8 mill. 



Habitat : Ad Insidas Andamanenses. 



K pretty and distinct little form, now found in most 

 cabinets, but not hitherto described. I have noticed it recently, 

 without a name, in the National collection and have two speci- 

 mens, precisely alike to each other, in my own. It is allied to C. 

 costularis (Blainville), and its variety C. planilh-ata (Reeve), but 

 mainly differs in the fewer ribs, greater delicacy of the trans- 

 verse squamulose ridging, finely-frilled outer lip, and other 

 minute differences. 



Eulima epeterion (sp. nov.) PL ii, fig. 2. 



Testa aculeiforini, albo-vitrea, polttd, angiistci, graclli, planius- 

 ciila, anfradibus in munero tridecim, deplanatis, ultimo 

 elongate, apcftina oblongd, niargine recto. 



Long. 16, lat. J mill. 



Hab. : Mauritius. 



In a genus so extensive and in which the species are so 

 similar as the one now under discussion, it seems a somewhat 

 hazardous task to venture to add yet another form to its list. 

 There are altogether over one hundred and fifty species des- 

 cribed, and this does not include Leiostraca, which some authors 

 still include as a section of Eulima. The E. epeterion however 

 seems sufficiently distinct. It differs from its nearest congeners. 



