— 158 — 



subconvexis; striis transversis exilissimis impressis ; apert. parva, elliptica, intus albida ; labro 

 acuto; columella albida. — Operc. tenebroso-fusco." 



„Diam. 0,42. Long. 1,32 p." 



„Oahu, Sandwich Isl. Newcomb." 



Pease, Americ. Journ. Conch. 1. c. : „Melania contigua." — ,,Testa elongata, tenui, 

 omnino transversim regulariter tenuiter sulcata aut impresso-striata, Cornea; sutura impressa; 

 anfr. 8, planulatis ; apert. elongato-ovata, superne angulata, intus albida ; labro acuto ; colu- 

 mella vix incurva; operculo fusco." 



„Long. 28, Diam. 9 mm." 



„Hab. Kauai, Isl. Sandwich." 



Baldwin, Katalog, pag. 19: „Hab. Oahu, Molokai and Kauai." 



Sykes, Fauna Moll. 1. c. : „Hab. Oahu (Lea); In stream in mountain gulch near 

 Honolulu (Perkins). Kauai (Pease). 



Nach Brot, Die Melaniaceen, pag. 214, Bemerkungen unter 222, ist Mel. contigua, 

 Pease, Mel. Oalmensis, Pease, und Mel. paulla, Dunker synonym mit Mel. Neivcomh'i. Lea. 



Familie: Helicinidae. 



Genus: Helicina, Lama ick. 

 Helicina laciniosa. Mighels, 1845. 



Helicina laciniosa, Mighels, Proc. Boston, Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. II, 1845, pag. 19. 



Gould, U. St. Explor. Exped. xMoll. 1852. Atlas 1856, PI. VII, Fig. 1U8. 

 11 ., Sykes, Fauna Moll. Hawaiiensis, 1900, pag. 396. No. 1. 



Mighels, in Proc. Boston Soc. 1. c. : „Helicina laciniosa.'' — „Shell orbicular, con- 

 vex, reddish brown, interspersed with irregulär light spots ; whorls five, more or less flat- 

 tened, with two or three raised lines, revolving over the middle of the outer whorl ; aper- 

 ture semilunar; lip limple, acute. — " 



„Diameter V20 inch." 



„Hab. Oahu." 



Hei. laciniosa. — „Testa subconica, tcnuiuscula, striatula, vix nitidula, cinnamomea, 

 irregulariter albido strigata et maculata : spira conoidea, acutiuscula ; anfr. 4 — 4\i vix con- 

 vexiusculi, ultimus peripheria lineis i — 3 subelevatis signatus, basi planiusculus; columella 

 brevissima, callum nitidum, diffusum retrorsum emittens; apertura obliqua, subtriangulari- 

 semiovalis; perist. simplex, rectum, acutum, margine basali cum columella angulum sub- 

 rectum formante. — Operculum tenue, corneum." 



„Diam. maj. 4, min. 31,3, alt. 2V2 mm." 



Sykes, Fauna Moll. 1. c. : „Hab. Oahu (Mighels). — Kauai (Baldwin). - Lanai, 

 behind Koele; also Kalamaula, Molokai: Kaala, Oahu; and between Lihue and the sea, 

 Kauai (Perkins). — 



