STENOPID. PAI 
fuscous-horny; spire vaulted over; suture inconsiderable, sub-marginated ; 
whorls 5, rather convex, slowly increasing, the last rounded at. the 
periphery, impressed in the middle beneath, callous ; aperture slightly 
oblique, lunar ; peristome simple, straight, acute, basal margin slightly 
arcuate, thickish at the columella. 
Diam., greatest, 2; least, ‘19; height, ‘1. (Pfr.) 
New Zealand. Nicobar Islands (Zelebor.) 
Preservation Inlet (F.W.H.) 
Genus, LAOMA—Gray. 
Shell scarcely perforated, turretedly-conical, smooth, shining, pellucid ; 
whorls 7, flat, the last carinated, flat at the base; aperture depressedly- 
quadrangular, lamellated ; peristome simple, straight. 
New Zealand only. 
L. leimonias, Gray; P.Z.S., 1849, p. 167; Helix Letmonias, 
PNG, Bp. TAA COL) 5. Pp: 220, VO. 132% + Aeede peO20. 
Shell sub-imperforated, turretedly-conical, rather solid, smooth, shining, 
pellucid, pale horny, reddish spotted; spire turreted, rather acute ; 
whorls 7, flat, the last acutely keeled, flat beneath ; aperture sub-vertical, 
depressly quadrangular, crowded with three strong white lamella, one 
on the wall of the aperture, two on the right margin; peristome simple, 
straight. 
Diam., ‘og ; height, :1. (Pfr.) 
New Zealand (Strange). 
Auckland (Major Greenwood). 
FAMILY—STENOPID~. 
Teeth numerous, nearly uniform, on a very broad lingual band. 
Body spiral, distinct from the foot. Eye penduncles, and tentacles 
retractile under the skin. Mantle produced into lobes at the fore part ; 
respiratory orifice on the right side. Foot long and narrow, abruptly 
truncated behind, and furnished with a distinct mucous, caudal gland. 
Genus, PARYPHANTA—Albers. 
Shell widely umbilicated, depressed, covered with a thick, shining 
epidermis involving the peristome; spire flat, whorls few, the last 
tumid, anteriorly deflexed; umbilicus perspective; aperture oblique, 
lunately oval ; peristome simple, inflexed. 
Australia and S. America. 
P. busbyi, Gray; Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, ~p. 317; Pfr, ME. V., 
vol. 1, p. 109; vol. 5, p. 48, Wo. 1; Reeve, f. 380; Voy. Erebus and 
Terror, pl. 1, f. 4; Chenu, fig. 3492. Shell broadly umbilicated, 
depressed, sub-discoidal, opaque, white, covered with a thick, glabrous, 
shining, deep-green coloured epidermis, which overhangs the peristome; 
spire flat, sub-rugose ; whorls 4%, slightly convex, the last smooth, 
deflexed anteriorily, depressed ; umbilicus broad, perspective ; aperture 
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