MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 279 
One of the gems of the collection. Solid, in form fusiform, 
eight-whorled, two whorls being plain brown, small, apicai, while 
the remainder are usually obtusely ribbed longitudinally, crossed 
with fine spiral lines, the colour is pale violet or purple, with a 
broad fulvous-yellow zone encircling each whorl, the lip ts 
extremely incrassate, striped with brownish yellow, and the 
sinus is hardly perceptible. 
Two specimens, precisely like each other. (The riame is 
derived from the Greek signifying yellow—purple, in allusion to 
the bright coloration). 
Mangilia agna sp. nov. (PI. IX, fig. 12). 
M. testa anguste oblonga, attenuata, fustformi, albo-lactea, 
interdum dorsaliter ochraceo-effusa, subpellucida, elegantt, 
anfractibus septem vel octo, ventricosulis, conspicué pauctcostatis, 
costis rectis, longitudinaliter decurrentibus, transversim delt- 
catissimé tenutstriatis, strits costas omnino accingentibus, 
apertura obliqué oblonga, sinu inconspicuo, labro extus effuso, 
incrassato, intus cum columella applanato. 
Long., 5°50, Lat., 2 mill. 
A pure milky white much attenuate species, sometimes with 
a pale ochraceous dorsal clouding, longitudinally few ribbed, 
the ribs decurrent and descending in the same plane from whorl 
to whorl, transversely very finely striolate, the strize surrounding 
the whole shell, including the ribs. The mouth is obliquely 
oblong, outer lip effuse, and, as well as the columella, quite 
simple within. (ayvos, castus). 
M. bascauda sp. noy. (Pl. IX., fig. 13). 
MM. testa ovata, solidiuscula, pallidé ochracea, anfractibus sex, 
apicalt stmplice, levt, ceterts longitudinalter oblique crasst- 
costatis, et spiraliter acutiliratis, interstitits minutissimé 
decussatis, apertura peroblonga, sinu suturali, inconspicuo, 
labro extus multum incrassato, fimbriatulo, intus septem 
vel octo denticulato, columella recta, simplice. 
Bone SO Lat 2 5 Onna. 
A pale ochraceous oval J/angilia, more like one of the 
section Cythara than Clathurella, ovate, with somewhat rounded 
