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Volume 40, 1907
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17. Eulima titahica, n. sp. Plate XXIX, fig. 18.

Shell small, subulate, slightly curved, semitransparent, polished, with a few discontinuous and inconspicuous varices. Sculpture consisting of a few indistinct varices and faint growthlines. Colour white. Spire somewhat curved to the right, narrowly conic, three times the height of the aperture. Protoconch globular, obtuse. Whorls 7, regularly increasing, flatly convex; base rounded. Suture linear, not much impressed, false-margined below. Aperture pyriform, angled above, slightly effuse below. Outer lip but slightly curved, thin and

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sharp; basal lip broadly convex. Columella vertical, indistinctly arcuate; parietal wall straight; inner lip very little expanded, with a sharp edge.

Diameter, 1.4 mm.; height, 4 mm.

Type in my collection.

Hab.—Titahi Bay, Cook Strait (Miss M. Mestayer).