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Genus EL^EA, Button, 1883. 



E. JEFFREYSIANA, Pfr. PL 26, fig. 26. 



Widely umbilicated, thin, distinctly striate, pellucid, yellowish, 

 with chestnut strigations ; suture irregularly plicatulate; whorls 



4, the last not descending. Diam. 7, alt. 3 mill. 



New Zealand. 



E. OBNUBILA, Reeve. PI. 26, fig. 27. 



Umbilicated, dark brown, with oblique striae and impressed 

 spiral lines decussating the surface ; whorls 5, plano-convex ; lip 



simple, acute. Alt. 3*5 mill. 



New Zealand. 

 Is Helix sigma, Pfr. MS. 



E. CHIRON, Gray. PI. 26, fig. 19. 



Umbilicated, distantly arcuately plicatulate; epidermis shining, 

 olivaceous brown ; whorls 3^, the last subdepressed ; base convex, 

 umbilicus narrow ; lip somewhat spreading, a little incised 



above. Diam. 6, alt. 3 mill. 



New Zealand. 

 E. RAPIDA, Pfr. PI. 26, fig. 13. 



Umbilicated, thin, slightly spirally striate, crossing the growth- 

 lines, shining, pellucid ; chestnut-color with yellowish spots and 

 lines; whorls 3^, rapidly increasing, the last wide, depressed, 

 periphery rounded, not descending anteriorly ; lip simple, acute. 



Diam. 7'66, alt. 3 mill. 



New Zealand. 



Yar. /9, MAJOR. Yellowish, with an articulated wide chestnut 

 band at the suture. Diam. 9'5 mill. Solomon's Is. 



E. SPLENDIDULA, Pfr. PL 26, figs. 20-22. 



Widely umbilicated, striatulate, obsoletely reticulated by 

 spiral lines ; light olivaceous-corneous ; whorls 3^, subplanulate, 

 with deep sutures, rapidly increasing, the last wide, not descend- 

 ing in front; lip simple, acute. Diam. 8*5, alt. 3'5 mill. 



Torres Straus, Australia; Lizard Islands. 



E. LAMBDA, Pfr. PL 26, fig. 25. 



Umbilicated, thin, somewhat smooth, with spiral lines, scarcely 

 shining, diaphanous; yellowish brown, strigate with chestnut; 

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