134 Prof. E. Forbes on Fossil Invertebrata from Southern India. 



A very globular shell, with a smooth surface or faintly striated by lines of growth. 

 The mouth is very narrow, widening a little below. The spire is slightly pro- 

 minent and very regular : the whorls composing it are nearly flat. The cast is 

 smooth. 



Locality, Pondicherry. 



2. Cypraa Newboldi, sp. nov. PL XII. fig. 21. 



C. testa ovata, laevi, in medio gibbosiuscul^, extremitatibus subcompressis, spira occulta. 

 Length ly^^ inch. Breadth 0/- inch. Height Oy^^ inch. 



Ovate, swelling out centrally, compressed and slightly attenuated at the extre- 

 mities. Mouth widening a little below, very narrow in the centre. Outer lip 

 gibbous centrally. Denticulations of both lips rather deeply placed. Surface 

 smooth. 



Locality, Pondicherry. 



3. Cypraa Cunliffei, sp. nov. PI. XII. fig. 22. 



C. testft ovata, minutissime transverse striata ; spir^ occulta. 

 Length Oy% inch. Breadth Oy'^j inch. Height 0/^ inch. 



A very elegant, regularly ovate shell ; the lower extremity is very slightly pro- 

 duced. The surface is marked by very fine regular transverse strise. The mouth 

 is narrow and of nearly equal dimensions throughout. The spire is hidden. 



Locality, Pondicherry. 



Genus Oliva, Bruguiere. 



1 . Oliva vetusta, sp. nov. PI. XII. fig. 23, a, b. 



O. testa elongata, lanceolata, laevi, nitida, spira producta, columella expanse. 

 Length Oy^ inch. Breadth Oy% inch. 



A smooth polished shell with a produced spire of three or four slightly convex 

 whorls. The columella is expanded, and the body-lip reflected broadly over the 

 canal and marked by four obsolete sulcations. 



This is the first species of its genus found associated with cretaceous forms. 



Locality, Pondicherry. 



Genus Eulima, Risso. 



1. Eulima antiqua, sp. nov. PI. XII. fig. 17. 



E. testft laevissim&, turriculatiij anfractibus 9, planatis, superioribus latis, striis duabus obsoletis 

 ad suturam cinctis. 



Length 0^ inch. Maximum breadth of body-whorl 0/^ inch. 



