"The Admirable Rapana." Previously mistaken for Coralliophila elaborata H. & A. Adams 1863 from the Sandwich Islands. We describe it as a new species. Biconic; white, deep mauve within the mouth and on the columella; axial ribs, regular, broad, rounded, twelve on body whorl, fading on the early whorls; spiral riblets narrow, close, encircling the whole shell and passing over the axial ribs and interstices; ,spire conical, about two-fifths of total length; protoconch eroded, apparently smooth; adult whorls five, flat-sided, last roundly shouldered; mouth rather wide, ovate-oblong; outer lip obscurely, finely, denticulate by the spirals; umbilicus narrow for the genus; operculum ear-shaped, horny, lamellar, nucleus external, sublateral. Height 26 diam. 16 mm. St. Francis Island in{ rock pools between tide-marks. (Reg. No. D 10601 S. Aus. Mus.) St. Francis Island, S.A. to Ellensbrook, W.A. In place of mauve some specimens are white within the mouth and on the columella.