DESCKIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF MOLLUSCA FROM NEW 

 CALEDONIA, JAPAN, AND OTHER LOCALITIES. 



Ey G. B. SowERBY, F.L.S. 



Read 12th December, 1913. 



Natica PAUCIMACULATA, 11. sp. 



Testa rotimdata, crassa, polita, alba, rufo-fusco maculata ; raaculis 

 medianis 4, grandiusculis, infeniis niiiioribus, supernis ininutis ; spira 

 brevissinia, obtnsa ; anfractus 3, convex!, siiperne leviter oblique 

 plicati ; aufractus ultimus rotunde convexus, parum obliqmis ; um- 

 bilicus fere clausus ; columella oblique rectiuscula, sinistrorsim calloso 

 effusa ; apertuia semilunata, peristoma simplex. Alt. 15, raaj. 

 diam. 16 mm. 



liab. — New Caledonia. 



A prettily marked shell, shininj^ white, with a row of four briglit 

 reddish-brown blotches just above the middle of the body-whorl, 

 a row of four smaller spots below, and a few minute dots above. 

 The columella is almost entirely closed by the columella callus. 



Altliough the operculum is wanting, there can hardly be a doubt 

 that this is a true Natica, but it does not seem very closely allied to 

 any known species. 



Natica balteata, 11. sp. 



Testa ovata, solidiuscula, laevis, albo-straminea, balteo lato fusco- 

 griseo colorata, apice fusco ; spira elatiuscula, ad apicem obtuse 



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exserta ; anfractus 5, convexe declives, Iseves, oblique obscurissime 

 plicati ; anfractus ultimus f longitudinis testae sequans, ovatus ; 

 iimbilicus clausus ; apertura semilunata ; peristoma acutum ; columella 



