S"^^ JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF SHELLS. 

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



[Read before the Couchological Society]. 



Scalaria inclyta MelviU, n. sp., pi. xi., fig. i. 



Sliell very broadly pyramidal, deeply and widely 

 umbilicated, white between the varices, whorls united 

 except so far as the space occupied by the three last varices 

 IS concerned. The varices are very numerous, continuous, 

 aculeated near the suture. Length 1-50 in. 



For many years I have had the above species in my 

 collection, with the manuscript name as now given above. 

 From 6". //c-i-Av/^ Ad. and Reeve, its nearest congener, it 

 differs m the following important particulars : the deep 

 and wide umbilicus, the want of colour between the varices 

 (which is pale tawn-colour in all the specimens of S. ue^^. 

 lecta I have seen), the more numerous varices, and the 

 whorls being united-this last forms a very striking dis- 

 tinctive feature. The specimen came into my hands in 

 1S73, at the sale of the Norris collection. Locality un- 

 known, but probably the China Seas. 



Bullia pura Melvill, n. sp., pi. xi., fig. 2. 



Shell subulate, delicately and spirally striated through- 

 out, pale straw-colour, only slighth- thickened at the 

 sutures, inner Hp simple, not callous. Length 1-25 in 

 Locality Port Elizabeth, S. Africa. 



Distantly allied to B. Tahcitcnsis Gray, belonging to 

 the section Leiodomus Swainson. The ddicate stris 

 impart a very neat and chaste appearance to the shell. 



I obtained it in January, 1884, at the sale at Messrs 

 Stevens' rooms of part of Mr. C. P. Gloyne's collection, 

 Mr. E. A. Smith has shewn us two other specimens in the 

 Coll. Mus. Brit, also labelled Port Elizabeth. It forms an 

 interesting addition to a somewhat circumscribed genus. 



J.C., iv., April, 1SS5. 



