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suture linear; whorls 8, flattened, the last acutely angulated, base 

 scarcely more convex, rounded in front, subgibbous, ochre color, 

 suddenly deflected; peristoine white, with an interior callus, basal ly 

 subreflected, margins joined by a parietal callus. 

 Diam. 12 mill. 



Ins. Porto Sando. 



Section IX. ACUSTA, Albers. 1860. 



H. SELSKII, Gerstfeldt, PL 10, figs. 5-7. 



Very narrowly perforate, almost covered, thin, transparent, 

 closely striate, a little shining, yellowish, three-banded with chest- 

 nut; whorls 5, rapidly increasing, the last ventricose, scarcely 

 deflected in front; peristoine acute. Diam. 20 mill. 



Amur River, E. Siberia. 



H. CINCTO-INFLATA, MoilSSOll. PL. 10, fig. 8. 



Perforate, thin, pellucid, not shining, irregularly striate, decuss- 

 ated by minute lines, light brownish, with a dorsal narrow chestnut 

 band, suture scarcely impressed; whorls 5s, rapidly increasing, 

 somewhat convex, the last inflated, and subgranular on the base; 

 peristome acute, thin. Diarn. 32 mill. 



Amur River, E. Siberia. 



H. LAETA, Gould. PI. 10, figs. 13, 14. 



Thin, shining, striate, with very thin spiral lines, greenish cor- 

 neous, with a brown band on the periphery and another- near the 

 suture; whorls 5, ventricose; peristome acute, a little expanded, 

 reflected at the umbilicus. Diam. 31 mill. 



Hakodadi, J<ij><///. 



H. SlEBOLDTIANA, Pfr. PI. 10, fig. 9. 



Scarcely perforate, thin, pellucid, striulate and very obsoletely 

 subdecussated, corneous; whorls 5-}, somewhat convex, the last ventri- 

 cose; peristome simple, acute. Diam. 18 mill. 



Japan, Formosa. 



Is possibly a variety of H. ravida, Bens. 



H. OSCITANS, Martens. PL 10, figs. 10-12. 



Rimately perforate, slightly striulate, granular hairy, yellowish 

 brown, suture impressed; whorls 4-1, convex, the last a little des- 

 cending, rounded; peristoine simple, acute. Diam. 18 mill. 



Japan. 



