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SOLENID^. 

 Solen roseomaculatus n. sp. ri. xix, tig. 13. 



Shell small, thin, moderately curved, the upper aud lower mar- 

 gins parallel, both ends truncated, with rather rounded angles; 

 compressed, open at both ends, glossy and smoolh except for faint 

 growth -stride. White with very irregular, more or less confluent pur- 

 plish-roseate maculation throughout, the spots coarser toward the 

 distal end. Beaks roseate. Anterior end obliquely truncate, the 

 margins narrowly expanded or flaring, thickened within. A single 

 prominent, erect tooth in each valve, that in the right valve ante- 

 rior to the other and compressed, that in* the left triangular, being 

 buttressed posteriorly. 



Length 31, alt. 6.3, diam. 3.8 mm. 



Hirado, Hizen, western Kiusiu (Mr. Y. Hirase). Types No. 

 80,565 Coll. A. N. S. P., from No. 1,044 of Mr. Hirase's col- 

 lection. 



This rose -variegated little Solen is curved like an En*is, and has 

 some similarity to S. pictus Philippi, 12 S. vaginoides Phil. 13 non 

 Lam. = S. philippianus Dkr. 14 and S. aspersus Dkr. 16 Solen pic- 

 tus is comparatively shorter and markedly inflaled or cylindric, while 

 the present Japanese species is strongly compressed. S. philippianus 

 measures 66 by a little over 10 mm. (" 2" 8'" lang, und wenig 

 u'ber 5'" hoch"), and is thus a narrower shell, and it is more 

 attenuated anteriorly, with smeared coloration, according to the 

 figure. S. aspersus is decidedly more slender, and anteriorly 

 below it is more square-cornered. The proportions of the three 

 species are as follows, the altitude and diameter being compared 

 with the length: 



Length. Alt. Diam. 



S. roseomaculatus, 1 of the length. 



& philippianus, 1 ,V 



S aspersus, 1 y rV ' ' 



S. pictus, 1 i " 



12 Philippi, Zeitschr.f. Malak., 1848, p. 174. Habitat unknown. It has 

 not been figured, to my knowledge. 



13 Philippi, AbUU. v. Beschreib., etc., I, Solen, PL 1, fig. 3. From New 

 Holland. 



V Bunker, Proe. Zool. Soc. Land ., 1861, p. 420, under S. aspersus. 

 15 Dunker, I. c., Australia. The type has been figured in Conch. Icon., 

 XIX, Solen, PI. 7, fig. 33a. 



