i;s HKLIX-PAPUINA. 



lunar ; peristome thin, margins subconniving, the upper arcuate, ex- 

 }>an<U-<], basal reflexed, dilated and vaulted at the umbilicus. 

 Alt. \~2, greater diam. 19-1, lesser 15* mill. (Pfr.) 



Saehala Island, Admiralty Group. 



H. sachalensis PFR., P. Z. S. 1855, p. 114; Monogr. iv, p. 259 ; 

 /. c. v, p. 331. 



Yar. b. Shell a little more elevated, distinctly carinated, having 

 2 or 3 blackish-chestnut bands. 



This unfigured species is perhaps allied to H. eddystonensis Rv. 



H. LEUCOTHOE Pfeiffer. PL 12, figs. 22, 23, 24. 



Narrowly umbilicated, trochiform, rather thin, striatulate, and 

 having forward-descending stride above, becoming concentric on the 

 base ; whitish ; spire turbinate, apex rather obtuse ; whorls 4, con- 

 vex, the last slightly descending in front, acutely carinated at the 

 periphery, having a single band below the carina ; aperture oblique, 

 rhombic-lunar; peristome expanded, upper margin thin, the basal 

 margin thickened in the middle ; columellar margin dilated, 

 purplish. Alt. 12, greater diam. 2(H, lesser 17 mill. (Pfr.) 



New Georgia, Solomon Is. 



H. leucothoe PFR., P. Z. S. 1861, p. 192 ; Novit. Conch., p. 179, 

 t. 48, f. 7-9 ; Monogr. v, p. 330. 



H. CyERtiLESCENS Angas. PI. 10, figs. 91, 92, 



Shell subperforate, conoidal, thin, obliquely striatedjand the lower 

 whorls decussated by irregular undulating stria? ; bluish-gray, with 

 darker bands of the same color, changing into pale yellowish-olive 

 above and at the base, the apical whorls being dark chestnut and 

 with a flesh colored band immediately below the suture, and a 

 similar one at the periphery, with a narrow dark chestnut line in the 

 middle ; spire conical, rather obtuse at the apex ; whorls 4, slightly 

 convex, the last descending in front, angled at the periphery, aper- 

 ture diagonal, sublunar ; peristome white, margins converging, the 

 right scarcely flexuous, expanded, the basal one arcuate, reflexed. 



Diam. niaj. 9, min. 8, alt. 8-> lines. (Angas.) 



Guadalcanar Is. Solomon group. 



H. ccerulescens ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 624, t. 48, f. 6. PFR., 

 Monogr. vii, p., 381. 



Evidently allied to H. lienardiana. 



