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Whorls 8; five nuclear convex, pink, finely longitudinally lirate; 

 the rest strongly costate and rather convex at the sides. The ribs 

 are thick, rounded, about sixteen in number on the penultimate 

 whorl, subobsolete behind the labrum. The last volution' is broad 

 above, contracted inferiorly, the extremity being crossed by several 

 coarsish grooves and ridges. Aperture narrow, only a little nar- 

 rowed anteriorly into a slightly oblique open canal. Outer lip 

 much thickened by a strong external white varix, marked with two 

 brownish-pink spots, one above and the other below the middle ; it 

 is also internally thickened, armed with eight denticles, and sub- 

 sinuated at the upper end. The columella is covered with a callus 

 bearing about five smaU tubercles near the middle. Length 5| 

 miUim., width 3. 



Eagle Island, Amirantes, 12 fms. ; sand and coral bottom. 



This is a very pretty little species, having the same form as the 

 typical group of the genus. 



31. Columbella couspersa. 



Oaskoin ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. xi. flg. 99. 



Providence Eeef, Mascarenes, 24 fms. ; and He des Neufs, Ami- 

 rantes, in 15 fms. 



Beeve's figure is fairly good in respect of form but misleading as 

 regards the colour of this species. It is a whitish or pinkish- white 

 shell, having the upper and lower parts of the whorls edged with 

 opaque white, and a narrow zone of the same colour round the middle 

 of the body-whorl. It is also blotched with olive-yeUow and dotted 

 with that tint upon the opaque bands. The labrum and columella 

 are tinged with lilac-pink, the former being armed with seven or 

 eight denticles and the latter with about six transverse tubercles 

 upon a prominent callosity. 



32. Columbella albocaudata. (Plate XLIV.fig. L.) 



Shell small, ovate-fusiform, pale pink, paler at the apex and white 

 at the extremity of tlie body-whorl, bordered above with a few 

 spots of a reddish colour. "Whorls 8 ; four apical glossy, excentric, 

 convex ; the rest less swollen, separated by a moderately deep 

 suture ; last whorl scarcely angled at the middle, contracted 

 towards the anterior end, which is transversely grooved and ridged, 

 the ridges being about twelve in number. Aperture small, con- 

 tracted anteriorly into a short open oblique canal. Labrum thin at 

 the edge, strengthened' with a varix at a little distance from the 

 margin, which is distinctly sinuated towards the upper part, and 

 furnished within with about five denticles. Columella perpendicular, 

 arcuate at the middle, covered with a thin callus supporting about 

 four cross tubercles. Length 6 miUim., width 2|. 



Providence Eeef, Mascarenes, in 24 fms.; bottom sand and 

 coral. ' 



