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Kunashiri, Chishima [KurU Is.]. Types No. 88,303, A. N. S. P., 

 from No. 1,599 of Mr. Hirase's collection. 



This little Amnicola-like snail is smaller than Cingula robusta 

 'Dall' Krause, and has no spiral sculpture. It is a wider shell than 

 Onoha aleutica Dall, which seems to be its nearest relative. 



EULIMID^. 



In my Catalogue of the Marine Mollushs of Japan, p. 77, some 23 

 species of Eulima are recorded, exclusive of Leiostraca, etc. Of this 

 number "E. cumingi Sowb." may have been an erroneous identifica- 

 tion, but as the specimen upon which it was based is not now accessible 

 to me, I am unable to revise it. The original E. cumingi A. Ad.* was 

 described from ''Lord Hood's Island, South Pacific," but, as in num- 

 erous other cases, the island intended by the label may have been one 

 of the Galapagos group, for the species does not seem to differ materi- 

 ally from Eulima splendidula Sowb.,* described from St. Elena, west 

 coast of Colombia. 



The name Eulima stenostoma A. Ad. is preoccupied for a species 

 described by Jeffreys, and may therefore be ignored. There remain 

 18 species "described" by Ai'thur Adams in his absurdly inadequate 

 manner, without dimensions or mention of the varices. While nobody 

 would presume to identify specimens by these diagnoses, it is frequently 

 possible to ascertain that no one of them corresponds wholly with a 

 particular specimen in hand. To facilitate such use of the descriptions, 

 I have recast the whole of them in the accompanying table. The 

 most prominent characters of any specimen may now be compared 

 with the entire series by glancing down the appropriate colimm, with- 

 out the waste of time and diversion of attention ensuing from reading 

 over the whole descriptions. 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851, p. 277. 



* Conchol. Illustrations, fig. 7. 



