280 PARTULA, NEW HEBRIDES. 



as "P. alabastrina Pfr., Fiji Is.," 'but the shell has wholly 

 the appearance of the New Hebrides Partulse. Two cotypes 

 no. 4293 Carnegie Museum. 



Partula alabastrina Pfr., H. H. SMITH, Annals of the Car- 

 negie Museum, 1, p. 468, no. 4293. 



This species was thought by Dr. Hartman to be P. alabas- 

 trina, but Pfeiffer's description of that shell does not apply 

 well to these specimens in several respects. Fig. 3 represents 

 the suture just behind the aperture, showing the end of the 

 suprasutural cord. 



68. P. EXIMIA Hartman. PI. 33, fig. 11. 



The shell is very deeply rimate-perforate, pyramidal. The 

 unique type is a "dead" shell, denuded of cuticle, grayish 

 white, but the color is preserved on the parietal wall, indicat- 

 ing a very pale buff ground marked with narrow brownish- 

 yellow streaks; the coloration perhaps intermediate between 

 that of typical P. turneri and P. caledonica. The apical 

 whorls resemble those of P. brazieri, though the second may be 

 slightly more convex. Subsequent whorls are quite convex, 

 and traces of fine, rather spaced spiral striation, just as in 

 P. caledonica, may be seen on the penultimate and next earlier 

 whorls, the last whorl being 'without spirals except around 

 the umbilicus. Oblique growth-wrinkles are rather distinct. 

 The last whorl is compressed laterally and very convex at 

 the base. Aperture only half the total length, slightly 

 oblique; peristome white, expanded, well thickened within; 

 having the usual deeply placed fold at the root of the colu- 

 mella. Length 23, diam. 11.7, length of aperture 11.5 mm., 

 width 7.8 mm. ; whorls 5%. 



New Hebrides: Aneiteum (Layard). 



Partula eximia HARTMAN, Proc. A. N. S. Phila. 1886, p. 

 35, pi. 2, f. 14. (April 6, 1886). 



This species stands very close to P. caledonica, from which 

 it differs by the slightly more lengthened spire, and perhaps 

 the paler, less brown color. Hartman, in 1896, wrote me 

 that he considered eximia a synonym of macgillvrayi, having 



