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The two species— J/. edithcB and M. ceraunia — are un- 

 doubtedly near each other, but the following characters amply 

 distinguish them. 



M. edith(B has the whole surface of the shell, including the 

 base, finely concentrically Urate, whilst the base of M. ceraunia 

 is smooth ; that species being also very depressed, while this 

 is conical in form. The disposition of markings, while the same 

 round the whorls, has an arrangement of zigzag rufous lines, 

 edged with white, regularly disposed, as if originating from a 

 common axis (the apex), and towards the base becoming quite 

 different, for, while in M. ceraunia a very beautiful crimson band 

 is formed by the junction of these lines, in M. edithce this is 

 absent, and the base is almost white. This species is at present 

 unique in my collection. 



Minolia eilikrines sp. nov. (PI. ii, fig. 13). 



M. testa conico-pyramidata^ unibilicata, tenui, delicatula, pallido- 

 ochracea, anfractibus quinque, ad suturas angulatis, trans- 

 versim gracilliine liratis, liris irregularibus, majoribus articu- 

 latis, minoribus simpHcibus, ultimo anfractu ad peripheriam 

 angulato, apertura ovato-trigona, labro simplici, margine 

 columellari subangulaio. 



Long.: 8 mill. 



Lat.: 9.50 mill. 



Hab. : Ad insulas Philippinenses. 



An extremely delicate, angled-whorled shell, conical, the 

 upper whorls all being well angled and raised, the lower whorl 

 not so depressed or effuse as in M. vitiliginea (Menke), next to 

 which this species must stand in our lists. The markings on 

 this species also are more delicate and not so well defined, 

 and the shell is of a more cinereous tinge. 



This, and the next species to be described, M. hcnniana, 

 belong to the old genus Minolia, as originally understood. The 

 rest of those described in this paper would till lately have been 

 called Solariella (Searles Wood), but as shown by Mr. Pilsbry 

 in Tryon's Manual, this latter genus has been misunderstood. 



