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with the figure of gonocheila Reeve, which latter = ganymedes 

 in nrv collection. This, however, may be explained by Cuming's 

 habit of substituting what he considered better examples for 

 those already in the Museum collection. Reeve's habitat is 

 Navigator Islands. I have restored the species with the expec- 

 tation that his gonocheila may yet be found at the Navigator 

 Islands. The present examples in the British Museum look to 

 me like some varieties of recta Pease. 



f P. recta Pse. A. J. C, iv, p. 155, pi. 12, f. 8, 1868. Mountains of M«nni and 

 Nukuhiwa Ixlds., Marquesas. 



P. recta Pfr., viii, 202. Nom. Helic Viv., p. 302. 



P. strigata Pse. A. J. C, iv, p. 155, pi. 12, f. 7, 1868. Marquesas. 



P. repanda Hartm. (non Pfr.). 



Obs. — This is a very variable shell in size, shape, color and tex- 

 ture. See recta Pse., Bib. Cat. Part., p. 186. P. strigata Pease = 

 the dark brown variety of recta. There were about one-and-a-half 

 pints of examples of this species amongst the duplicates of the 

 collection of the late Wm. H. Pease ; four varieties were seem- 

 ingly embraced in the lot ; the larger number were of the white 

 variety, some of which resemble repanda Pfr. On a comparison 

 with repanda in the British Museum they proved to be distinct. 

 These shells vary from white through different shades of yellow 

 and reddish to dark reddish brown. The inner margin of the 

 aperture is more or less waved and the columella more or less 

 nodose, the lip usually partaking of the color of the shell. 



P. repanda 1'fr., iv, 512. New Hebrides. 

 P. recta Hartm. (non Pse. ). 

 P. repanda Pfr. Nom. Helic. Viv., p. 302. 



t P. actor Alliers (Partulus). Helicien, p. 87, 1850. Samoa Tsldt. 

 P. actor Pfr., iii, p. 450. 

 P. actor Chemn., t. 48, figs. 13, 14. 

 P. actor Pfr. Nom. Helic. Viv., p. 303. 



P. Recluziana Petit. Jour. Oonchyl., t. 7, f. 5, 1850. Tntuila. 

 P. Recluziana Pfr., iii. p. 45 J. 

 P. Recluziana Pfr. Nom. Helic. Viv., p. 303. 

 P. zebrina Gld. Exped. Shells, t. 6, f . 89. Tntuila and Samoa. 

 P. zebrina Pfr. Nom. Helic. Viv., p. 303. 

 P. zebrina Hartm. Bib. Cat. Part., p. 189. 



Obs. — I have several examples of this shell from the collection 

 of the late Mr. Taylor, England. They were obtained by the 



