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A uniform species. In some specimens the space above the peripheral 

 band is of a delicate rosy -brown shade, below it pale yellowish. 



3. GANESELLA PAPrLLIFORMIS, Kob. PI. II, FigS. 1-3. Gojo, 



province Yamato. Thirteen specimens. Previously recorded from 

 the interior of Nippon, without precise locality. 



Kobelt's type - specimens measure diam. maj. 23, min. 21 -5 mm., 

 alt. 27 mm. ; "and are provided with a narrow reddish peripheral band. 

 My specimens are smaller and bandless, although some do show 

 a hyaline band. 



Diam. maj. 17*5, min. 16 mm. ; alt. 215 mm. 

 i, jj 15'5, ,, 16 ,, ,, 1J ,, 



4. Ganesella Japonica, Pfr. Three specimens. Kioto. My 

 specimens are more elevated in the spire than usual ; the maximum 

 altitude mentioned by Kobelt is 16 mm., whereas my largest shell 

 measures 20 mm. 



5. Ganesella conospira, Pfr. Eight specimens. Kioto. Apparently 

 of wide distribution, but not previously recorded froru Kioto. 



6. Ganesella conulina, Mts. Five specimens. Saigo, province 

 Uzen. Previously only recorded from Tabu-shima Island. 



7. TuisnoPLrTA. Goodwini, Sm. Thirty-two specimens. Kioto. 

 Var. fusca, n.var. Ten specimens. Kajima, province Harima. Differs 

 from the type in being of a darker horn-colour, with spire more 

 depressed, whorls more compressed, the last more angulated at the 

 periphery. 



8. Eulota (s.s.) l.eta, Gld. Six specimens. Kiyokawa, province 

 Tajima. Reddish or greenish horn-colour, with two bands or un- 

 handed. Not previously recorded so far south. — Two specimens. 

 Onijima, province Teshiwo, Yezo. Unhanded, one brown, the other 

 greenish, resembling Natalina Caffra. 



Diam. maj. 25, min. 21 mm. ; alt. 20 mm. 

 n >> 28*5, ,, 24 ,, ,, 22 ,, 



Twenty specimens. Kiyokawa, province Oshima, Yezo. Variable 

 in colour, from pale horn to dark reddish-brown and greenish horn- 

 colour, banded and unbanded in about equal proportion. Previously 

 recorded from Hakodate and Matsu-maye, Yezo ; occurring also in 

 Saghalien Island, north of Japan. 



9. Eulota (s.s.) Sieboldiana, Pfr. Saigo, province Ugo. Five 

 specimens. Saigo, province Uzen. Twenty specimens. Recorded 

 from many localities, but hitherto not from these. A more fragile 

 and transparent species than E. ravida. The small form only was 

 found. Smallest specimen: diam. maj. 16, min. 14mm. ; alt. 15 mm. 

 Largest specimen: diam. maj. 20, min. 16*5 mm. ; alt. 18*5 nim. 



10. Eulota (Eulotella) similapjs, Fer. Kioto. Twelve specimens. 

 A variable species, apparently very common . and of wide distribution. 

 My shells are mostly unicolorous pale corneous, but three specimens 

 have a reddish peripheral band. 



