176 PHASIANELLA. 



P. VARIABILIS Pease, 1860. PI. 39a, figs. 21, 22. 



"Shell small, thiu, ovate, shining; whorls 3-4, convexly rounded, 

 marked with very fine oblique longitudinal stride; inner lip callous, 

 slightly expanded at the base, indented at the umbilical region and 

 with a groove behind the inner lip; aperture ovate; color white, 

 variously painted with pink lines and blotches, the lines fine, oblique, 

 extending over a portion of the whorls, sometimes flexuous and 

 covering the whole surface; blotches of a longitudinal shape; 

 periphery of last Avhorl usually ornamented with a row of pink 

 spots." (Pease) Alt. 3, diam. 2 mill. 



Sandwich Is. 



This is Collonia variabilis Pse. My figures are drawn from sjieci- 

 mens received from Mr. Pease. 



P. BicARiNATA Duuker, 1846. PI. 39a, fig. 10. 



Shell small, somewhat solid, ovate-conic, rose colored, variegated 

 with white, transversely lightly striate; Avhorls somewhat convex, 

 the last obsoletely bicarinate. Alt. 4 mill. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



P. MUNiERi Velain, 1877. PI. 39, figs. 89-91. 



Rather thick, white or slightly greenish, turbinate, short, spire 

 slightly exserted ; whorls 4 very rapidly increasing, the upper ones 

 narrow, rounded and convex, the last very large, rather flattened 

 above, surface smooth or slightly irregularly striate above; aperture 

 oblique, oval, sub-circular, columellar margin somewhat thickened 

 and strongly concave ; operculum as usual in the genus. 



Alt. 3 mill. Ins. St. Paul 



P. brevis Velain (fig. 91) seems to me to be identical ; the name 

 is preoccupied. This species seems to form a passage to Chromotis. 



Subgenus Chromotis A. Adams, 1863. 



Shell subglobose, auriform; spire very short; whorls few, rapidly 

 increasing; aperture large, oval; operculum as in Phasianella. 



S. African Province. 

 P. NERiTiNA Dunker, 1846. PI. 40, figs. 10, 11. 



Small, subglobose, smooth, rather solid, composed of about 3 

 convex rapidly increasing volutions, the last descending toward 

 ajjerture, and rather flat on the superior portion; aperture very 

 oblicjue, large, two thirds the entire length of shell, roundly oval, 

 outer lip thin, columella arched, flattened, with a rather heavy 



