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margined. Aperture subpyriform, angled above, with a short and 

 broad canal below, slightly emarginate at the base. Outer lip angled 

 above, then convex, contracted below, thin and sharp, crenulated on 

 the outside by the spirals, sinus rounded, not deep, situate just above 

 the carina. Columella straight, smooth, concave on meeting the 

 parietal wall, bent to the left toward the canal below ; inner lip 

 thin, narrow, extending over the faintly convex parietal wall, 

 tapering to a fine point below. Operculum unknown. Diameter 2, 

 height 3-7 mm. 



Rob. — Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, in 18 fathoms (Captain 

 J. BoUons). 



Mangilia devia, n.sp. PL VII, Fig. 20. 



Shell small, fusiform, turriculate, with distant nodulous axial ribs, 

 continuous over the whorls, spirally distantly Urate, whitish, with 

 indications of two brown spiral bands. Sculpture : the protoconch 

 has a sharp carina on the nucleus, two on the succeeding half volution, 

 and this is continued on the next three spire-whorls, the upper spiral 

 on the angle of the shoulder, the second midway between angle and 

 suture ; on the following whorl a third spiral appears just above the 

 angle of the shoulder, and on the penultimate whorl an additional 

 fine spiral above it, thus giving these lower whorls a more convex 

 outline, the shoulder becoming inconspicuous on the body-whorl, 

 which has five additional spirals in front of the aperture. The axial 

 sculpture consists of rather distant, slightly oblique, broad, and 

 distinct ribs, about ten on the last whorl, strongly nodulous at 

 the points of intersection, continuous over the whorls, and on the 

 base to the siphonal fasciole ; the interstices slightly broader than the 

 ribs. Colour yellowish white, with indications of two brown spiral 

 bands above and below the periphery. Spire produced, conic, turreted, 

 nearly one and a half times the height of the aperture with canal. 

 Protoconch with the nucleus distinctly oblique, flat above the carina. 

 Whorls 6 J, the upper ones distinctly shouldered, the lower ones convex, 

 base contracted. Suture inconspicuous. Aperture oblique, pyriform, 

 broadly angled above, produced below into a short, oblique, truncated 

 canal. Outer lip convex, strengthened on the outside by the last 

 axial rib, smooth inside, contracted below, the sinus inconspicuous, 

 shallow. Columella vertical, smooth, obliquely truncated below, 

 concave at the junction with the parietal wall; inner lip thin and 

 narrow, drawn out to a fine point on reaching the left margin of the 

 canal. Diameter 3, height 7*2 mm. 



Sdh. — Near the Snares Islands, in 50 fathoms (Captain J. Bollons) ; 

 a single specimen. 



In sculpture this species somewhat resembles M. dictijola, Hutt., 

 but this has not the tilted and carinated protoconch and coarse spiral 

 sculpture of the base. M. epentroma, Murd., has a similar protoconch. 



Mangilia quadricincta, n.sp. PL VII, Fig. 21. 



Shell very small, fusiform, thin and fragile, white, semitransparent, 

 turriculate, clathrate. Sculpture : the first whorl below the smooth 



