HISPANIOLAN AND BAHAMAN ANNULARIIDAE 115 



KISSI.INGIA OLKNCHI (PUsbry) 



Plate 17, Figure 1 



1933. Chondropoma (Chondropomium) clenchi Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 126, pi. 9, figs. 2, 3. 



Shell elongate-ovate, flesh-colored, with chestnut-brown spots at the 

 summit alternating with soiled white areas. There is also an interrupted 

 series of oblique, protractively slanting, brown spots at the periphery and 

 more or less zigzag, faint, brownish marks on the whorls. The 

 base is marked by a spiral series of dots, which are distantly spaced and 

 arranged in both axial and spiral series. The peristome is white. Nuclear 

 whorls decollated. Postnuclear whorls somewhat inflated, strongly 

 rounded, and marked by slender, retractively curved, axial riblets, which 

 are about as wide as the spaces that separate them. Of these riblets, 169 

 are present on the last whorl. Suture slightly channeled. Periphery in- 

 flated, strongly rounded. Base short, strongly rounded, and marked by 

 the continuation of the axial ribs and on the wall of the rather broadly 

 open umbilicus by a number of low, rounded spiral threads. Aperture 

 broadly ovate; peristome simple, the outer broadly expanded and re- 

 flected, forming a slight auricle at the posterior angle, rather strongly 

 expanded on the inner lip and a little less so on the parietal wall. The 

 reflected peristome of the parietal wall may be adnate to the preceding 

 turn or may be slightly solute. Operculum typically kisslingid. 



The specimen described and figured (U.S.N.M. No. 426036) is one 

 of two paratypes received from Dr. H. A. Pilsbry. It comes from Sr. 

 Del Monte's coffee plantation. Station 85, between the main bate and 

 the top of Alies in the coffee finca proper at an elevation of about 3,000 

 feet, Dominican Republic. It has 3.5 whorls remaining and measures: 

 Length, 15,1 mm.; greater diameter, 11. i mm.; lesser diameter, 8.0 mm. 



The small size will readily differentiate this from Kisslingia poloensis, 

 and the absence of nodulations at once separates it from K. hahoriicensis. 



KLATTEA, new genus 



Shell elongate-conic. Nuclear whorls 2, inflated, strongly rounded, 

 microscopically granulose. Postnuclear whorls moderately rounded and 

 marked by retractively curved axial ribs, which are fused into weak tufts 

 at the summit. The spiral sculpture consists of rather broad threads, 

 which render the axial ribs wavy and feebly nodulose at their junction. 

 Suture strongly constricted. Base moderately long, openly umbilicated, 

 and marked by the same sculpture as that characterizing the spire. This 

 type of sculpture is also present on the umbilical wall. Base moderately 

 broadly umbilicated; the last whorl solute for a fraction of a turn. Aper- 

 ture oval; peristome simple. Operculum with a fragile pseudolamella, 



