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BULLETIN 192, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



greater diameter, 10.6 mm. ; lesser diameter, 9.4 mm. The light one 

 measures: Length, 17 mm.; greater diameter, 10.5 mm.; lesser diameter, 

 9.5 mm. 



This species comes from Gonave Island. A hundred and two specimens 

 yield the following data : 



U.S.N.M. No. 471942 contains 42 topotypes collected by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott on Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 471943 contains 6 specimens from Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 471944 contains 23 specimens collected by Eyerdam 

 near Anse a Galets, Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 455360 contains 4 specimens collected by Eyerdam i 

 mile northeast of Point-a-Raquette, Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 380243 contains 40 specimens collected by Eyerdam at 

 La Source, Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 471945 contains 2,405 specimens collected by Orcutt 

 on Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 380264 contains 11 specimens from Trou Louis, 

 Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 380153 contains 3 specimens collected by Eyerdam 

 under stones on the mountain above Point-a-Raquette. 



U.S.N.M. No. 3S0192 contains 33 specimens collected by Eyerdam on 

 the shore of the Saline, Gonave Island. 



U.S.N.M. No. 380217 contains 6 specimens collected by Eyerdam near 

 L'Abricots, Gonave Island. 



CHONDROPOMA (CHONDROPOMA) SOLUM, new 8pe«ies 



Plate 12, Figure 6 



Shell elongate-conic, flesh-colored, with the early whorls brown, 

 which gradually fades as the shell grows larger, disappearing finally in 

 the suture of the turns. The nuclear whorls are decollated in all our 

 specimens. The postnuclear whorls are rather high between suture and 

 summit, inflated, decidedly rounded, narrowly shouldered at the summit, 

 and crossed by numerous slender, almost vertical, somewhat sinuous 

 axial ribs, which render the summit finely denticulated. In addition to 

 this sculpture, the whorls are marked by rather broad, low, feebly de- 

 veloped spiral threads, which are almost as wide as the spaces that 

 separate them and which render the riblets slightly sinuous. Suture 



