372 HAMINEA. 



tiire rather wide, outer lip slightly arched, somewhat acuminatelj- 

 produced above, expanded below, columella nearly straight, re- 

 flected, producing behind it a minute umbilicus. Length 3 lines, 

 breadth I2 lines, alt. 1] lines (i).). 



Cape Grenville, Northeast Australia, 20 fathoms, sandy mud ; 

 Albany Passage, Cape York, North Australia, 11 fathoms, sandy 

 mud and broken shells. 



Haminea decora Braz., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii, p. 83, 

 1877. 



May prove to belong to Atys, but as it is uufigured and not seen 

 by me, I do not venture to alter Mr. Brazier's generic reference. 



This species differs very much from Haminea ambigua (A. Ad- 

 ams), the center of the shell being smooth, and each end having 

 eight deep transverse engraved lines, whereas H. ambigua is en- 

 tirely transversely striated. 



H. cuTicuLiFERA Smith. PI. 41, fig. 13. 



Shell elongate-cylindrical, above and below roundly quadrate,, 

 thin, white ; covered with a whitish epidermis, shining, buff tinged 

 toward base and vertex ; having growth lines, and above and at 

 base subdistantly transversely striated. Aperture rather Avide, di- 

 lated at base, scarcely produced above the vertex ; columella short, 

 rather straight, reflexed, covering the umbilical region, joined with 

 the vertex by a very thin scarcely shining callus ; lip thin, inserted 

 in the middle of the vertex and thickened there. Alt. 14, diam. 

 6^ mill. (;S'.). 



Port Jackson, 2-15 fms. (Coppinger, Challenger, Angas) ; Le- 

 vuka, Fiji, 12 fms. (Challenger) ; Ne^v Zealand. 



H. cuticulijera Smith, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), ix, p. 350, 1872 ; 

 Zool. Col. H. M. S. ' Alert,' p. 87, pi. 6, f. H.— Angas, P. Z. S. 

 1877, p. 189. — Cylichna cuticulijera Smith, Watson, Chall. Gastr. 

 p. 663. 



The lateral outlines of this species are nearly straight ; the supe- 

 rior strife are about six in number, the inferior about eighteen. H. 

 papyrus A. Ad. is its nearest ally ; but it is narrower, more elon- 

 gate, with the strife not covering the whole of the shell, the vertex 

 is more depressed and the aperture is less broadly dilated and more 

 effused at the base (S.). 



This species belongs to a group of forms somewhat similar to cer- 

 tain species of Cylichna and Atys, like H. decora Braz. and papyrus 



