MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 275 
paullum ventricosts, longttudinaliter paucicostatis, costis 
levibus, tnterstitiis sub lente spiraliter indistincte striatis, 
interdum levissimts, in hac specimine tnter medium suturas- 
que anfractuum zona tndtstincta sptrali succingente, in tla 
absente, tn omnibus infré suturam anfractus ultimt ochraceo- 
maculato, tentagque ochracea apud medium accincta, simul ac 
ad basim extremam, apertura rotunda, labro tncrassato, dor- 
saliter ochraceo-bimaculato, tntus denticulato, columellari 
margine callosa, abbreviata, canalt brevt. 
LOG. Wey Mehe. Ts eal 
Several specimens of a neat, white, shining /Vassa, not un- 
like the VV. Cuviert Payr. from the Mediterranean, and possibly 
identical with JV. casfa Gould, an authentic specimen of which 
we cannot find represented in our museums. The whorls are 
seven, few ribbed, longitudinally and indistinctly spirally striate, 
but the shell gives the impression of much brightness, whiteness, 
and smoothness. ‘The outer lip is denticulate within, thickened 
without, and with two brown blotches dorsally. The columellar 
margin is callous, white, shining. In some specimens a thin 
brown line is seen above the sutures, in others it is absent, but 
all have a brown ochre blotch just below the suture of the last 
whorl, about the centre of the back of the shell. (exariABos 
shining). 
Columbella (Seminella) Pacei sp. nov. (Pl. IX, fig. 5). 
C. testa parva, compacta, albida, anfractibus sex, arcté longt- 
tudinaliter costulatis, costis spiraliter clathrato-liratts, ante- 
penultimo anfractu suprd, juxta suturas, simul ac penultimo 
spiraliter et regulariter squarrosé-maculatis, maculs laté 
fiavo-ochracets, ultimo anfractu apud medium similt modo 
flavochraceo maculato, in pluribus spectminibus dorsaliter 
Julvo-suffuso, usque ad basim, apertura augusta, labro incras- 
sato, intus levt, columella planata. 
Long. 4, Lat. 1°75 mill. 
Minute, yet particularly beautiful. Whorls six, compact, 
clathrate, with close longitudinal riblets and revolving lirze. Just 
underneath the sutures the ante-penultimate and penultimate 
