OPEAS, CHINA. 165 



rounded at the base. Aperture slightly oblique, small, long- 

 oval; colurnellar margin lightly arcuate, a little dilated, not 

 truncate. Length 8, diani. 1.66, aperture 1.75 mm. long. 

 (Gredl). 



China: Hunan, very likely on the Ape Mountain (Fuchs) ; 

 Kuang-si. 



Stenogyra gracilior GREDL., Jahrb. d. M. Ges. viii, p. 117, 

 pi. 6, 'f. 3; Nachrbl. 1890, p. 153. Opeas pyrgula A. Ad., 

 GREDL., Malak. Bl. ix, 1887, p. 142. 



An extremely slender shell, which Gredler subsequently 

 referred to 0. pyrgula A. Ad., I think erroneously. It is 

 certainly related to 0. filaris Hde. 



49. 0. VESTITUM (Heude). PI. 20, figs. 34, 35. 



Shell oblong-turriculate, covered-perforate, covered with a 

 silky epidermis, whitish, striatulate. Spire long-conic; 

 whorls 8, regularly increasing, joined by a slightly impressed 

 suture, the last whorl less than a third the total length. 

 Aperture obliquely piriform, sinuated, the columellar margin 

 dilated, a little reflexed, umbilicus very narrow. Length, 

 14, diam. 3.5 mm. (Hde.} . 



China: Shanghai and ravines at Song-kiang, quite com- 

 mon. (Hde.}. 



Stenogyra vestita HDE., Notes sur les Mollusques terrestres 

 de la Vallee du Fleuve Bleu, Memoires concernant 1'Histoire 

 Naturelle de 1'Empire Chinois, p. 55, pi. 17, f. 26 (1882). 



50. 0. HYEMALE (Heude). PI. 20, figs. 36, 37. 



Shell turriculate-elongate, covered with a brownish, silky 

 cuticle, striatulate, pellucid ; spire conic, the apex rather ob- 

 tuse, whorls 7, flattened, joined by a scalar suture, the last 

 whorl more than half the total length. Aperture oval, colu- 

 mellar margin nearly equal to the outer lip, subarcuate, a 

 little reflexed; umbilicus very narrow. Length 8.5, diam. 

 2.5mm. (Hde}. 



China : high on the mountains of Kiun-tcheu, Hupe. 



Stenogyra hyemalis HEUDE, Mem., p. 56, pi. 17, f. 25. 



