MITROMORPHA 73 
resembles M. (A.) dorcas in the lack of axial sculpture, strong cords on early whorls, 
brown lines with darker spots, but the specimen is only 7.1 mm in length (Fig. 27). 
Acknowledgements. 1 would like to thank Dr P. Bouchet, Museum National d’Histoire 
Naturelle, Paris; Mr C. Pettitt, Manchester University Museum and Ms K. Way, British 
Museum (Natural History), London, for the loan of type specimens. I am grateful to Mr C. 
Beslu, Papeete, Tahiti, and Mr J. Trondle, La Force, France, for molluscan material from 
French Polynesia and to the late Dr A.W.B. Powell for the protoconch drawings. 
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