288 PARTULA, NEW HEBRIDES. 



The two cotypes from Dr. Hartman's collection, no. 4243 

 Carnegie Museum, are figured. The cuticle of the smaller ex- 

 ample is corneous with hardly any yellow tint. It is deciduous 

 in spiral 'bands, not much remaining on the last whorl and 

 none on the spire. The other example has a yellower, more 

 persistent cuticle. 



78. P. CONCINNA Pease. PI. 36, figs. 9, 12. 



Shell compressed-umbilicate, conic-ovate, rather thin, closely 

 and distinctly striate spirally, pale fulvous or whitish rayed 

 with darker streaks, the apex generally rufous. Spire rather 

 acute, short, conic. Whorls 5, a little convex, the last as long 

 as the spire ; suture generally submarginate. Columella nearly 

 vertical, nodose, dilated above ; aperture expanded, slightly re- 

 flexed. Length 15, diam. 9.5 mm. (Pse.). 



New Hebrides: Tanna Island (Cox). 



Partula concinna PEASE, Amer. Journ. of Conch, vii, 1871, 

 p. 196 HARTMAN, Proc. A. N. S. Phila. 1886, p. 35, pi. 

 2, f. 16. 



' ' The above is of the type of P. repanda Pf r. inhabiting the 

 same group of islands. It is smaller than that species, more 

 abbreviate in shape, thinner, distinctly striate, columella no- 

 dose, and of a different color." (Pse.}. 



The figures are from a specimen in the Hartman collection 

 (no. 4244 Carnegie Mus.). It measures 13 mm. long, 8 wide, 

 aperture 7.3 mm. long, and has 4^ whorls. It is bluish white, 

 the spire pale brown. The columellar nodule, mentioned by- 

 Pease, may be seen in fig. 9, under a lens. While smaller than 

 Pease 's type, I think the specimen is probably identified cor- 

 rectly. 



I suspect that P. concinna was based on a stray example of 

 P. taniata nucleola. The description certainly favors that 

 theory, and the Hartman example figured seems hardly separ- 

 able from that Moorean shell. 



79. P. REPANDA Pfeiffer. PI. 34, fig. 11. 



Shell compressed-umbilicate, ovate-conic, rather solid, un- 

 der the lens most minutely striate spirally, slightly shining, 



