4o6 MELVILL : DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEVEN NEW SPECIES. 



Pisania gaskelli sp. nov. (PI. ii, fig. 5). 



P. testa fusiformi, gracili, fulvo-brun/ied, anfractibus novein, 

 convexiitscuHs, ad sutiiras compressis, longituditialiter costis 

 regularibns cmctis, liris transversim hrunneo-jiigris, circuin- 

 ambientibus, apeiturct prolongatd, canali ad basim subre- 

 curvo, labro exteriore denticulato, incrassato, columellari 

 recto, IcBvi. 



Long,: 28 mill. Lat.: 11 ;;////. 



Hab. ? 



This species seems distinct from all others; the nearest 

 approach in form I can find appears to be P. billeheiisti (Petit), 

 a species placed in Metula by some authors. It is a shell of 

 elegant fusiform shape, of a warm brown hue, with transverse 

 lines of a dark grey crossing the longitudinal ribs at regular 

 intervals, the ribs being very numerous; the outer lip is denticu- 

 lated internally, the beak being somewhat prolonged and slightly 

 recurved. It has been for years unique in my collection. 



I have much pleasure in associating with this interesting 

 shell the name of a college friend of very old standing, Roger 

 Gaskell, Esq., M.A., of Highgate, Middlesex, the possessor of a 

 choice collection of shells. 



Minolia malcolmia sp. nov. (PI. ii, fig. 6). 



M. testa solidhiscula, depresso-conicd, anguste uinbilicatd, albido- 

 ochraced, macitUs et flammis rubrobruniieis conspersis deco- 

 ratd, anfractibus 4I, Icevibus, nitidis, ad siituras subdepressis, 

 infrd suturas indistincte cremdafis, striisque supei'ficialihus 

 cinctis, 2iltivio ad basim albescente, aperturd parvd, trigono- 

 ovatd, labro crassiiisculo, margine columellari siibcalloso. 



Long.: 3.50 ;;////., spec, majoris. Lat.: 6 ;;////. 



Hab. : Ad insiilas Philippinenses. 



I possess two specimens of this shell, both from the 

 Lombe Taylor collection. A small, subconical, solid species, 

 not so shining as some of its allies, with red-brown speckled 

 markings, and with no angle at the periphery, slightly depressed 

 and crenulated at the sutures, mouth small, triangular. 



J.C, vi., Oct, 1891, 



