Daphnella Thiasotes, Melvill & Standen.

Mangilia thiasotes, Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii., 1896, p. 284, pl. ix., fig. 21.

A more complete account than is usually given by these authors enables me to satisfactorily identify a single specimen from Funafuti with their species from Lifu. They confess, "We know of no pleurotomoid shell which presents the same characteristics." If specific characters were thus alluded to in a shell described as new, the remark would be superfluous, and I therefore presume that generic characters are intended. It is obvious that this species is a close ally of such a shell as Angas described as Purpura anomala. Prof. R. Tate first pointed out that this latter was one of the Pleurotomidæ, allied to M. vincenti, Crosse, ^† In consonance with Tryon's classification, it is therefore here termed Daphnella thiasotes.