mOM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 541 



whorl are, at intervals, stouter than one or two in the interstices 

 between them. The lahrum is prettily crenulated on tlie margin ; 

 and the nine or ten white lirae within do not quite attain to it. 



17. PiSANiA CRENiLABRUM, A. Adums, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 

 138. 



Hab. New Caledonia, "West Indies" (Adams); Moreton Bay {coll. 

 Cuming). 



There is not the slightest doubt of the identity of the jSTew- 

 Caledonian shell with the type of this species, which was described 

 as an inhabitant of the West Indies ; and tlierefore I should be 

 inclined to consider the latter locality for this species erroneous, 

 this being another of the very many instances of wrong habitats 

 assigned to specimens described from the Cumingian collection. 



18. P. soLOMONENSis, sp. nov. PL XXX. fig. 14. 



Testa ovato-fusiformis, crassiuscula, alba, inten-upte fusco bifasciata ; 

 anfractus 7, prinii tres laeves, cseteri costis longitudinalibus ad 15 et 

 liris spiralibus 6-7 ubique granose reticulati, incrementi lineis striati ; 

 anfr. ultitnus superiie fascia fusea latissima interrupta et infra medium 

 angustioi'e cinctus, et liris transversis grauosis circiter 15 ornatus ; 

 apertura oblonga, alba, zonis externis fuscis variegata ; labrum incras- 

 satum, intus denticulis 5-6 munitum ; columella laevis, calio tenui 

 albo iuduta, medio rectiuscula, inferne obliqua et tortuosa ; canalis 

 brevis, angustus, recurvus. Long. 8 mill., diam. 3|. 



Hab. San Christoval Island, Solomon group. 



This small sj)ecies is chiefly to be distinguished by its granular 

 surface and the style of coloration. The upper whorls are spotted 

 in an irregular interrupted manner with brown ; or, rather, at irre- 

 gular intervals a longitudinal row or two of granules are brown ; 

 on the body-whorl the rows of granules are generally brown 

 around the upper part, and two rows also just below the middle, 

 thus forming two brown bands more or less interrupted. 



19. COLUMBELLA CAROLINA, Sp. nOV. PI. XXX. fig. 9. 



Testa ovato-fusiformis, nitida, luteseens, strigis longitudinalibus irregu- 

 laribus undulatis fuscis vel olivaceo-fuscis picta, paululum infra sutu- 

 ram linea interrupta nigro-fusca cincta tt circa medium anfr. ultimi 

 albo zonata; anfractus 8, convexiusculi, lieves, suturasimplici discreti; 

 anfr. ultimus medio obtusissime angulatus, inferne contractus, circa 

 caudam striis spiralibus profundis circiter 11 insculptus ; apertura 

 parva, angusta, alba ; labrum superne paululum infra suturam leviter 

 sinuatum, margiue siniplici, extra valde tumide incrassatum, intus 

 denticulato-liratum ; columella tenniter callosa, iufcrue sulcis circa 



