20 Melvill, Descriptions of Marine Mollusca. 



Ethalia minolina, sp. nov. (PL 7, f. 24). 



E. testa depresso-conica, rufo-carnea, spiraliter albo-vittata, 

 solida, anfractibus sex, inclusis apicalibus, undique spiraliter 

 arctissime filostriatis, striis variis, anfractu pemdtimo grada- 

 tido, ultimo apud peripheriam rotundo-angidato, basi simili 

 modo filostriata, umbilico profundo, apertura rotunda, peri- 

 stomate marginem apud columellarem linguifero, calloso f 

 umbilicum impendente. Operculo corneo. 



Alt. 6, diam. 10 mm. 

 Hab. Persian Gulf. 



A pretty, bright shell, depressedly conical, six-whorled, 

 rufous-flesh colour, uniformly very closely filostriate, the 

 pattern being, as is so often seen in this genus and the 

 congeneric Minolicz, a banded filleting of white and fawn 

 colour. The umbilicus is deep, and partly covered by 

 the tongue-shaped callus extending from the columellar 

 margin. Allied to E. striolata A. Ad., from Borneo. 



{minolina, resembling a Minolia.) 



FlSSURELLA TOWNSENDI, Sp. 110V. (PI. 7, f. 27, 27a). 



F. testa oblonga, ad medium utrinque paidlulum attcnuata, 

 foramine oblongo, declinato, undique radiatim arete costulato, 

 spiraliter clathrato, interstitiis squarrosis, colore pallescente, 

 radiis variis brunneis depicto, margine basali crenulato. 



Long. 21, lat. 13 mm. 

 Hab. Karachi. 



Mr. Hugh Fulton, who has carefully studied this 

 species, and compared it with its congeners, writes me 

 that it is near F. fumata Reeve and F. corticula Sowb., but 

 flatter than the former, and the orifice, though in declen- 

 sion, is more terminal than in either of the foregoing. 



Several specimens. 



