(4IBBULA-ENIDA. 245 



Subgenus Enid a A. Adams, 1860. 



Enida A. Ad., Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18G0, 

 p. 408. — Fischer, Manuel de Conchyliologie, p. 824. 



" I have dedicated this genus to the gentle Lady Enkl of the Poet- 

 Laureate's ' Idylls of the King,' — a creation of the brain more 

 beautiful, more tender, and more pure than any of the so-called 

 goddesses of the Greek mythology who have lent their names to 

 science. Enlcla, founded on shells of great beauty and of exquisite 

 sculpture, resembles a depressed and widely umbilicated Ziziphinns 

 with the inner lip reflexed ; in form it also approaches many species 

 of Gibbx/a, Ijut this group is littoral and coarser in its physiognomy. 

 Deep-water shells are usually more delicate and of finer sculpture 

 than those which have to buffet with the tides." (A. Adams.) 



G. JAPONicA A. Adams. PI. 67, figs. 44, 45. 



Shell depressed-conical, profoundly umbilicated ; whorls 5 J, slightly 

 convex, ornamented with transverse grauulose lirse, the interstices 

 obliquely longitudinally striated ; last whorl encircled by a promi- 

 nent crenulated carina at the periphery ; aperture subquadrate, in- 

 ner lip reflexed in the middle, outer lip smooth within ; base with 

 close grauulose line ; umbilicus moderate ; color j^ale brown, orna- 

 mented with radiating brown patches. {A. Ad.) 



Off Mino-Sima, Japan. 63 fms. 



Enida japonica A. Ad. Ann. and Mag. N. H. 1860, p. 408. — 

 DuNKER,' Ind. Moll. Mar. Jap., p. 144, t. 12, f 17, 18. 



This appears to be the most abundant species, but all the speci- 

 mens I obtained in the dredge were dead shells. In this species 

 and E. speciosa the inner lip is smooth within, but in E. gemmnlosa- 

 it is internally thickened and Urate and crenate at the margin ; in 

 E. japonica the aperture is also less circular in its outline. (^4. Ad.) 



G. SPECIOSA A. Adams. Unfigured. 



Shell depressed-conical, broadly umbilicate ; whorls 4j, nearly 

 flat, angulated at the sutures, with rather close transverse granulose 

 lirse, the interstices elevately, obliquely striate; last whorl orna- 

 mented on the periphery with a deeply crenulated rib ; aperture 

 oblique, quadrate ; inner lip straight, broadly reflexed in the middle 

 outer lip angular at the suture, smooth within ; sutures canaliculate 

 base ornamented with granulose lirre alternately large and small 



