On some Neio Marine MoUusca. 5D 



convexis, uhigue subtillissime spiraliter et oblique transver- 

 sim striatls ; 5 carinis munitis ; carinis laiis, planatis, 

 supra et infra latioribus et proniinentioribus, basi convexa, 

 ccirinata ; apertiira subquadrata ; labro acuto tenui, intus 

 marginato, labio albo, conspicuo, fauce argentea, riuirgari- 

 tacea, lirata. Alt. 6,, Lat. 4J. Interstitiis inter carinas 

 interdum liratis. 



Shell small subumbilicate, conical, pale olive, spotted or 

 tesselated with white ; whorls 7, subconvex, everywhere finely 

 obliquely, spirally tranversely striate; furnished with five 

 keels, which are broad, flattened, and the upper and lower 

 ones broader and more prominent ; base convex, keeled, 

 aperture subquadrate, outer lip acute thin, margined within; 

 inner lip white, conspicuous; throat silvery nacreous, lirate. 

 The interstices between the keels sometimes striate. 



Thalotia J)UBiA,n.s. T. t. turbinato-conoidea,solida intense 

 roseo purpurea et roseo-flammulata ; anfr. 7, convexis (4 

 apicalihus planatis), carinis 4, parvis, distantibus conspicue 

 granulatis, instructis ; granulis parvis, concinnis, roseo- 

 purpureis ; interstitiis granulose liratis, periostraca lutea 

 sericea indutis ; sutura profunda, late subcanaliculata, 

 basi planata, spiraliter lirata et radiatini striata ; apertura 

 subquadrata, incrassata, conspicue niidtidentata ; columella 

 tuberculata marginata et crebre dentata. Long, 18, Lat. 15. 

 Clark's Islands. 



Shell turbinately conical, solid whorls intensely rose-purple 

 and rose-flamed, whorls 7, convex (the four spiral flattened), 

 keels 4, small, distant, conspicuously granular ; granules 

 small, neat, and rose purple in colour; interstices clothed with 

 a yellow silky periostraca ; suture deep, broadly subcanali- 

 culate; ba«e flattened, spirally lirate and radiately striate, 

 aperture subquadrate, thickened conspicuously multidentate ; 

 columella tuberculate, margined and closely toothed. 



In general form resembling T. conica, but smaller and more 

 closely ornamented. The mouth is also an approach to a 

 clancidus. Eare. 



Minolta vectiliginea (Menke), var? M. t. orbicidata, 

 depressa, tenui, diaphana, p>r of und,e, perspective urabilicata ; 

 anfr. 5 J rapide decrescentibus rotundatis, ad feripheriam 

 obtuse angidatis,undique spiraliter crebre tenuissime striatls 

 et subtillissime transversim oblique striatis, umbilico albo, 

 concavo, ad marginemi angulato, apertura rotundata. Ele- 

 ganter atro et olivo w/irTnorata, ad peripher. olivo et albo 



