300 MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
Four or five specimens of a very small Az¢ézwm, pale violet 
in colour, one of them being a young shell, brownish in colora- 
tion, and exhibiting five perfect apical whorls, bright white in 
hue and extremely small and attenuated. The shell is tun- 
shaped, much attenuate at both ends, the mouth is very small, 
and the whorls are ornamented with three regular rows of 
nodular gemme, the interstices being plain. 
Cerithiopsis aurantiaca sp. nov. (Pl. X., fig. 50). 
C. testa longa, attenuata, subpellucida, leté aurantiaca, 
anfractibus duodecim (apicalibus ?), apud suturas tmpressis 
et crenellatis, spiraliter tricarinatis, ultimo quadricarinato, 
carints pulchré crenellatis, longitudinaliter elevato-liratss, 
lirts rectis, interstittis quadratis, alveolatis, nitidis, apertura 
ovato-qguadrata, labro simplice, bast nitida, planata. 
Long., 4 mill. (approx.), Lat., 1°25 mill. 
A very delicate, semi-transparent orange-coloured minute 
form, long, attenuate, with angled whorls, crenulate, and impressed 
at the sutures. In number the whorls are twelve (approxi- 
mately speaking, for our specimens are not perfect at the apex). 
Three carine adorn the upper whorls, four the lowest one; quad- 
rately interlaced with longitudinal liree placed equi-distantly. 
Mouth ovato-quadrate, lip simple, base flattened, shining. Three 
specimens only. 
C. catenaria sp. nov. (Pl. X., fig. 51). 
C. testa parva, fusiformi, uniform, ochraceo-brunnea, an- 
Jractibus duodecim, quorum duobus apicalibus, vitrets, ceteris 
veniricosulis, apud suturas inpressts, tribus regularibus gem- 
mularum catenis spiraliter decoratis, et longttudinaliter 
parviliratis, interstitits alveolatts, simul ac ad suturas, aper- 
tura subguadrata, labro simplice, canalt brevt. 
Long., 6°15, Lat., 1°75 made. 
An elegant little species, fusiform, ochraceous - brown, 
with twelve whorls, two being apical, and glossy pale-brown, 
the rest ventricose, impressed at the sutures, longitudinally 
lirate, lirae small and transversely crossed by three chains of 
J.C., viii., Oct., 1896. 
