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ON A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF LIMICOLARIA. 



By Rev. L. J. SHACKLEFORD and G. C. SPENCE. 



(Read before the Society, 8th Dec, 1915). 



Owing to the kindness of Mr. Robert Standen two specimens of 

 Limicolaj'ia have recently come into our hands. We have 

 hesitated long before adding a new name to the already formidable 

 list comprised in this genus. The shells, however, are very distinct, 

 and as far as we can ascertain the species has not been previously 

 described. Mr. E. A. Smith did not know it, although he informed 

 us that there are specimens, unnamed, in the Nat, Hist. Mus., 

 S. Kensington. 



Limicolaria abinsiensis sp. nov. 

 Shell narrowly but deeply perforate, acutely conic-ovate, rather 

 solid, somewhat shining, nepionic whorls smooth, remainder dis- 

 tinctly and evenly sculptured with curved striae, decussate with 

 impressed spiral lines fairly strong on upper portions of whorls, but 

 becoming almost obsolete below the periphery. Ground colour pale 



Limicolaria abinsiensis sp. nov. 



Var. aurea nov. 



yellow, excepting the apex which is pink, handsomely marked with 

 warm dark chestnut-coloured flames, some of which are forked and 

 all extend across the whorls to the suture. These flames are narrow 

 and regularly spaced at first but gradually become wider and 



