290 MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
Very small, and with some slight resemblance to JZ. thepa- 
Zea. The nodulous papillz are, however, much larger in pro- 
portion to the size of the shell, and, in consequence, fewer. 
The upper whorls are closely tubercled, shining white. The 
four rows—two on the penultimate, two on the last whorl 
are approximate, and the space contained by them is banded 
with ochre, the white shining nodules standing out more promi- 
nently. The mouth is narrow, oblong, sinus deep, outer lip 
much thickened, four toothed within as is the columellar 
margin. Rare; we have seen very few examples. (OcoréAns 
divinely perfect). 
M. (Glyphostoma) thepalea sp. nov. (PI. X., fig. 32). 
M. testa parva, pyramidato-fusiformi, albescente, delicatula, 
anfractibus septem, quorum apicalibus vitrets, ceteris (quingue) 
ventricosults, longitudinaliter noduloso -costatis, costis in 
medium transversim unisulcatis, interstitiis longttudinaliter 
tenuissimé striolatis, infrague suturas simul ac apud medium 
anfractus ultimt pallidé ochraceo-cinctis, in uno specimine cos- 
tis hic illic ad medium usque ad suturas utringue ochraceo- 
punctatts, tn altero tribus supernts (apicaltbus exceptis) unt- 
coloribus, nodults papillaribus semper albis, haud ochraceo- 
tinctts. Apertura oblonga, sinu suturalt, obliguo, labro 
extertore incrassato, intus conspicué sepltemdenticulato, colu- 
mella denticulis minoribus sex vel septem munita. 
Long., 5°50, Lat., 2 mild. 
A very delicate, beautiful little shell. It is pyramidally 
spindle-shaped, white, with seven whorls, two being glassy and 
apical, the rest ventricose, impressed at the sutures, the longi- 
tudinal ribs are nodulous, shining, and very regular, one spiral 
sulcation crosses each rib in the middle, the interstices between 
are beautifully longitudinally striolate. At the sutures, and in 
the middle of the last whorl (in some specimens also on the 
upper whorls), there is a very pale ochraceous banding, the 
nodules of the ribs still retaining their white lustre. In other 
specimens the first three or four whorls remain quite colourless. 
The mouth is oblong, sinus sutural, obliquely extending over the 
J.C., viil., Oct., 1896. 
