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more polished, S. sharpi occurred with various species of Tornatellina 

 and Nesopupa. 



Sphyradium alexanderi C. and P., n. sp. Fig. 3. 



The shell is openly perforate, dextral, broadly ovate, subtruncate at 

 the base, the apex blunt; nearly smooth, minutely striate especially 

 below the sutures, shining, very thin, slightly diaphanous, chestnut, 

 apical whorls much lighter; whorls 5^5f, well rounded, increasing 

 very slowly; sutures simple, well impressed. The aperture is oblique, 

 quadrate-lunate; columella vertical, lip thin, reflexed at the columella, 

 the margins remote; umbihcus circular, deep. Length 1.7, diam. 1.17 

 mm. 



West Maui, at the top of Mt. Kukui, elevation about 6,000 feet. 



This shell, in company with a species of Tornatellina and another of 

 Auriculella, was found by C. M. Cooke, Jr., at the very apex of West 

 Maui overlooking lao valley. It was found only on low shrubs, two 

 or three feet in height, at the base of leaves. 



Collected in February, 1904. Type in Bishop Museum, M. P. 8. 

 Cotype in A. N. S. Phila., No. 91,292. 



