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hanging ledges of rock to little pools on the sand beach, and then 

 flow to the great ocean without having benefited the island in any 

 way. In these little pools a few small stunted Physas were found. 



During the winter season the island is the rendezvous of Japanese 

 fishermen, who catch lobsters for the Los Angeles market. They 

 also make a business of hunting abalones at low tide. The meats are 

 cleaned from the shells, boiled in salt water and spread on the flat 

 rocks to dry, when they are sacked up and shipped to Japan and 

 China, and considered a great delicacy by the celestial epicures. 

 The shells are sent to Los Angeles and made into pearl buttons, 

 souvenir spoons and various "curios" to tempt the pocket-book of 

 the tourist. 



NEW JAPANESE MARINE MOLLUSKS. 



BY HENRY A. PILSBRT. 



Phasianella tristis n. sp. 



Shell imperforate, globose turbinate, thick and solid, dark reddish- 

 brown, the apical whorl whitish ; smooth. Spire short. Whorls 3, 

 rapidly increasing, the last rounded. Aperture more than half the 

 length of the shell, oblique, rounded-ovate ; columellar margin regu- 

 larly concave, flattened and callous. Alt. 3.6, diani. 3 mm. 



Rishiri, Kitami. Types no. 85222 A. N. S- P., from no. 1367 of 

 Mr. Hirase's collection. 



Near P. oligomphala, but the aperture is less oblique, the shell 

 more solid and of a more sombre color. 



Gibbufa ciffinis var. cognata n. v. 



Differs from G. affiuis of the Viti Is. in having the larger spiral 

 cords more equal and regularly spaced, the apical whorls rose-colored. 

 Riukiu I. 



Gibbula vittata n. sp. 



Shell narrowly but openly umbilicate, conic, fleshy-brown, striped 

 longitudinally with white, the white stripes about half as wide as the 

 darker ones. Surface nearly lusterless. Whorls subangular above 



