276 MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
whorls are sparsely spotted with fulvous; in the last whorl the 
spots again occur towards the middle, but are contiguous to, 
and below joined with, one large dorsal effusion of the same 
colour. The mouth is narrow, lip thickened, simple. Several 
specimens. ‘To Mr. S. Pace our thanks are due, he having 
given advice concerning the Columbellide of this collection, 
and as a very slight return we would venture to associate his 
name with not the least elegant of that genus to which he is 
devoting so much laborious study. 
Columbella (Mitrella) sigaloessa sp. noy. (PI. IX, fig. 6). 
C. testa ovata, perlevi, nitida, late paliidé ochracea, anfrac- 
tibus sex, ad suturas paullum impressis, levissimis, trans- 
versim infra, fuxta suturas, albizonatis, zona fulvo-brunnea 
sequente, et altera simi supra suturas, ultimo anfractu ad 
peripheriam laté rufo-zonata, et, infra, duabus similibus zonts 
accinctis, apertura angulatim ovata, labro extus paullum tn- 
crassato, intus multidenticulato, columella puniceo-tincta. 
Long., 9, Lat., 5°50 mud. 
A smooth polished shell, prettily transversely banded with 
white and rufous, the body colour being very pale ochreous. 
Whorls six, slightly impressed at the sutures, and entirely 
smooth. Mouth effuse ovate, outer lip much denticulate within, 
columella stained with rose. Two specimens, one not so 
strongly banded. 
Near C. semt-convexa Vamk. from Australia and C. gausa- 
pata Gould, this latter being a Central American shell. 
(cvyad6evs, smooth, shining). 
Scalaria eranna sp. nov. (PI. IX., fig. 7). 
S. testa perforata, fusiformt, sub-turrita, sordidé albida, , 
anfractibus septem, apicalibus duobus vitrets, ceteris com- 
pressults, arcté lamellatis, lamellis bt- vel tri- crenatults, un- 
dulatis, interstitits levibus, apertura ovato-rotunda, 
pertstomate incrassato, extus undulato-rugoso, bastm ad 
columellarem paullum extenso. 
Long., 4°50, Lat., 1°50 mill. 
J.C., viii., Oct., 18096. 
