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might be placed in it asin a box! In 1876 in company with my 
friend Mr. David Robertson, I dredged diligently the spot carefully 
described by Farran, but without again meeting with this form; but 
Mr. A. G. More informed me that the year before that just men- 
tioned he had found a similar sized specimen in a lough near Gal- 
way. (Norman, Ann. Mag. N. H., 1890). 
Genus VOLVATELLA Pse. (Vol. xv, p. 382). 
V. LAGUNCULA Sowerby. 
Shell ovate-cylindric, membranaceous, involute, abruptly con- 
tracted behind, shortly produced, rounded in front. Aperture 
widely ovate in front, sinuous behind, very narrow, the right lip 
truncate at both ends, inflexed in the middle, left lip lightly re- 
flexed. Length 6, diam. 33 mill. (Sowd.). 
Port Elizabeth, S. Africa. 
Volvatella laguncula Sows., Journ. of Conch., vii, p. 373. 
Compared with V. cwmingi it is much smaller, less abruptly trun- 
eated and produced posteriorly, and proportionately wider ante- 
riorly ; it is also less cylindrical in form than JV. cincta of Nevill, 
and shows no sign of the transverse bands characteristic of that spe- 
cies. (Sowd.). 
CYLINDROBULLA scuLPTA Nevill (Vol. xv, p. 381) is reported 
from South Africa by Sowerby, J. ¢. 
Genus HAMINEA Leach, (Vol. xv, p. 352). 
H. srnotara Pilsbry. 
Shell cylindric-oval, hardly wider below, truncated above, rounded 
beneath, thin, but rather solid, ruddy-corneous, with a small opaque- 
white spot at each end, that at apex bounded below, that at colu- 
mella, above, by an opaque orange or reddish tract, appearing only 
on the latter part of the whorl. Surface polished, with excessively 
fine and close spiral striw, and rather coarse growth wrinkles. 
Aperture rather narrow, moderately enlarged below. Outer lip 
rising slightly above the vertex, but by no means high-arched. Col- 
umella concave, short, with a lunate, reflexed, but free, not adherent, 
flange, but no fold. Apex closed or subperforate. Alt. 11, diam. 
7 mill. 
Yaeyama (Okinawa), Loo Choo Is. (Stearns). 
