282 MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
apud suturas guast-crenulatts, costis longtitudinaliter crassis, 
paucts, accinctis, transversim conspicué pauciliratis, interstitiis 
levibus, ad suturas regulariter brunneo-sparsis, simul ac 
apud medium anfractus ultimt punctis regularibus, et dorsa-- 
liter ad medium labri exterioris brunneo-maculatis, apertura 
angusta, oblonga, sinu lato, labro extus incrassato, columella 
stmplice. 
Long., 4, Lat., 2 mill. 
This little shell has much in common with JZ. himerodes, 
deswtinedl: in this paper, but is smaller and of a pale yellow-ochre 
colour throughout. The whorls are angularly turreted, they 
are six in number, including the two vitreous apical whorls. 
At the sutures there is a quasi-crenulation, owing to the com- 
mencement of the prominent longitudinal ribs, there crossed by 
acute lire, the interstices being smooth. Faint brown trans- 
verse spots adorn the sutures and the middle of the last whorl ; 
the back of the outer lip is likewise ornamented with one ochre 
median blotch and faint signs exist in some specimens of another, 
or, indeed, two more alternating with white, both above and 
below the median blotch just mentioned. We have a near ally 
of this species from Bombay, still undescribed. — (iyepros, 
pleasing). 
M. orophoma sp. nov. (PI. IX., fig. 18). 
M. testa lurrita, angusta, parva, nitida, pallidé-brunnea, 
anfractibus sex (apicalibus?) ceteris infra suturas angulatis, 
apud suturas tmpressts, rectis, longitudinaliter recticostatts, 
costis paucis, spiraliter liratis, liris in penultimo anfractu 
sex, in ultimo novem, interstitiis levibus, apud basim tuber- 
culato, canali paullum recurvo minime producto, apertura 
angusta, sinu amplo labrum excavante, labro extus tn- 
crassato, fimbriatulo, intus obscuré denticulato, columella 
plus minusve simplice. 
Long., 3, Lat. 1°25 mill. 
A minute turreted pale brown species, with six whorls, 
angled just below the sutures, then straight, the straight 
longitudinal ribs, few in number, are crossed by liree, conspicuous 
J.C., viii., Oct., 1896. 
