MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 277 
A highly interesting little shell. It is narrowly umbilicate, 
fusiform, roundly turreted, dirty white, seven whorled, two being 
apical and glassy, the rest somewhat compressed, closely variced, 
the lamellz twice or thrice crenulate or undulose, the spaces 
between are smooth, the aperture roundly -oval, the lip is 
thickened, without wavy-wrinkled, and towards the columellar 
base it is slightly produced. Seeming from the figure to be 
near S. sodufa Ad. One specimen, but quite full-grown. 
(epavvos, lovely.) 
S. exomila sp. nov. (PL IX., fig. 8). 
S. festa imperforata, parva, gradatofusiformi, turrita, 
albida, versus apicem attenuata, anfractibus sex, undigue 
arcté lamellatis, lamellis crassis, albis, interstitits sub lente 
transversim striatulis, apertura rotunda, peristomate levi, 
crassiusculo, continuo. 
MDG hey Sei, IO UU 
A minute, but full-grown species, with distinctive characters, 
the whorls are turreted, attenuate towards the apex, contracted 
at the sutures. The lamellz are thick, dirty white, slightly 
angled below the sutures, and very finely striate at the interstices. 
Mouth round, peristome thickened, smooth and continuous. 
(cEdptAos, a stranger). 
Drillia ione sp. nov. (PI. IX., fig. 9). 
D. testa incrassata, fusiform, pallidé violacea, apud basim 
paullum expansa, anfractibus septem vel octo, ventricosults, 
apud suturas impressts, longitudinaliter crassicostatis, costis 
paucts, spiraliter undique tenutssimé lratts, interdum dorsa- 
liter brunneo suffusis, interstitits sub lente mire decussatults, 
apertura lata, ovalt, labro exteriore incrassato, transversim 
striatulo simul ac in anfractibus, canalit brevi, lato, margine 
columellari simplice. 
MOIS 5 ME SOE 
A chaste pale violet species, with occasional brown dorsal 
shading, small, of thickened fusiform build, longitudinally 
thickly costate, the coste few in number. Sometimes, indeed, 
the ground colour is pale-brown or ochre, while other specimens 
