114 THE NAUTILUS. 



What of commercial opportunities in tlie Isle of Pines ? Opinions 

 will v;iry. But some indication may be had in tlie fact that out of 

 a total population of eight, thousand, five thousand are Americans. 

 The land itself is by no means fertile. There is nothing specially 

 inviting in the scenery, excepting the North Coast, and educational 

 advantages are quite meager. Schools and churches there are, and 

 many cultured people, hut morals are at a low ebb generally. Tlie 

 climate is the Island's greatest asset, and its chief products will 

 always be the citrus fruits. 



NEW JAPANESE OVULIDJE. 



BY II. A. 1MLSBRY. 



OV T ULA (NEOSIMNIA) IIIRASEI, n. sp. Plate 7, fig. 4. 



Tlie shell is fusiform, its greatest diameter contained 2.8 times in 

 the length ; thin, bluish white, the ends pale ochre colored for a 

 distance of 4 or o mm.; glossy, under the lens showing distinct very 

 fine longitudinal striation, and about G oblique, low and well sepa- 

 rated spiral cords at the lower end, one or two more than this at the 

 summit. The rest of tlie surface has a microscopic spiral striation, 

 so minute as to be hardly noticeable except under the compound 

 microscope. The two ends are about equally produced, pointed. 

 Outer lip thickened outside and within, retracted at both ends, very 

 indistinctly angular near the lower end, columella straight and 

 simple. Near the summit there is a low, indistinct spiral swelling 

 very obliquely encircling the axis. Length 28, diam. 10 mm. 



Province of Tosa, .Japan, Y- Hirase. 



This species is longer and less swollen than 0. sowerbymia Wein- 

 kanf, ( = Ocuhnn spelta Sowb., Th.-s. p. 480, pi. 100, f. C3, 64, not 

 of Linne). It is decidedly more inflated than 0. carpenter) Dkr. 

 The axial fold above is quite weak in 0. /n'rasei, and the coloration 

 is characteristic. 



OVULA NIFPONENSIS, n. sp. Plate 7, fig. 9. 



The shell is oval, angular at the ends, glossy, bright flesh-pink 

 gradually becoming paler towards the lip; very indistinctly 4- 

 banded with brown, maculate with brown on the back and behind 



