270 EEV. E. BOO a WATSON ON THE 



labral varix is entirely absent at the upper angle of the mouth. 

 Inner lip : its curve cuts somewhat deeply into the body-whorl, 

 which it crosses as a thinnish, expanded, denned glaze ; down the 

 pillar it is reverted, with a slightly detached and projecting edge ; 

 towards the point of the mouth it is suddenly inverted so as to 

 narrow and cover the canal, leaving behind it on the left a small 

 shallow, angulatecl furrow whose labial side is scored with minute, 

 blunt, interrupted lamella? : there are 4 tubercle-like teeth on the 

 pillar, of which the highest is often a little remote from the rest, 

 the lowest, close to the origin of the canal, is smallest; the lip is 

 plaited variously by the underlying spirals; near the upper 

 corner is a single, rather obsolete tooth, which, like the rest, is a 

 little elongated from within outwards. H. 1*15. B. 0'6. Pen- 

 ultimate whorl, height 026. Mouth, height 039, breadth 033. 

 Canal, length 0'23, breadth 0-33. 



This is a very exceptional form, and there is nothing much 

 resembling it for comparison. It is narrower in the spire, less 

 strongly ribbed longitudinally, with a shallower suture and much 

 longer snout than T. Quoyi, Rve.,= T. viperinum, Kiener nee Lam., 

 which in some features it recalls. It is something like the youug 

 of T. brasilicmus, Gould, from Rio de Janeiro ; but in that 

 species the longitudinal ribs are feebler, the spirals much 

 stronger, and the anterior canal and the whole aspect of the 

 mouth is very different. I have quoted this note made from the 

 specimen thus named in the British Museum. I did not at that 

 time remember that this species of Gould has been held to be 

 identical (see Kobelt, ' Jahrbucher d. D. mal. Ges.' 1878, p. 244) 

 with T. parthenopus, v. Salis. If this identification be correct, I 

 can hardly understand how I should have found it like the 

 1 Challenger ' species, which suggests no resemblance to the spe- 

 cies of v. Salis. 



Banella, Lam. 



Eanella eijiensis, n. sp. 



St. 173. July 24, 1874. Lat. 19° 9' 35" S., long. 179° 41' 50" E. 

 Fiji. 315 fms. Coral. 



Shell. — Ovate, turreted, conical, strong, but not heavy, with a 

 long pillar, high narrow varices, and a superior row of pointed 

 circular-based tubercles of a dead ruddyish yellow, with a few 

 chestnut spots and suffused but paler patches. Sculpture. Lon- 

 gitudinals — there are high, narrow, alternate varices, which on the 



