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Blanfordia bensoni A. Ad., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), XII, p. 



424, PI. 7, fig. 11. 

 Blanfordia bensoni A. Ad., Mollendorff, Nachr'bl. d. D. Malak. 



Ges., 1897, p. 32 (description of specimens from Hakodate). 

 Pomatiopsis hirasei Pils., Nautilus, May, 1900, p. 12. 



Southern Yesso, in the Province Ojima, at Matsumai (A. Ad.), 

 Kayabe (Y. Hirase), and Hakodate (B. Schmacker). 

 B. japonica (A. Adams). 



Tomichia japonica A. Ad., Ann. and Mag. (3), VIII, p. 308 (Octo- 

 ber, 1861). 



Blanfordia japonica A. Ad., Ann. and Mag. (3), XII, p. 424, PI. 7, 

 fig. 12. 



Sado Island (A. Ad.). 



B. japonica var. simplex Pils. See above. 



Blanfordia japonica Mlldff., Nacbr'bl. d. D. Malak. Ges., 1900, p. 

 153. 



Nishigo, Uzen, Nippon; Kajima, Satsuma, Kiushiu (Y. Hirase). 



I have given the references in full because several authors, nota- 

 bly von Mollendorff and Kobelt, have expressed ignorance of the 

 existence of descriptions of A. Adams' species ; the former author, 

 with characteristic temerity, stating that one of them had never 

 been described. 



Cyclophorus kikaiensis n. sp. 



Shell depressed-turbinate, moderately solid but not thick, openly 

 umbilicate ; pale yellowish, encircled by many dark red-brown 

 dotted or spotted lines and bands, those above usually more or less 

 confluent, and usually marked with radiating zigzag light streaks ; 

 the earlier whorls purplish -brown ; sculptured with minute, thread- 

 like striae, coarser and more separated on the early whorls. Whorls 

 4f , very convex, the last rounded or sometimes indistinctly angular 

 in front, convex below. Aperture circular, oblique, bluish inside, 

 the peristome built forward beyond a very slight expansion, in fully 

 mature individuals ; in contact with the preceding whorl for a very 

 short distance only. 



Alt. 11^, diam. 15 mm. 



Alt. 12, diam. 16 mm. 



Alt. 12J, diam. 17 mm. 



Kikai-ga-shima, Osumi. Types No. 81,940 Coll. A. N. S. P., 

 from No. 547 of Mr. Hirase' s collection. 



I formerly thought this a small variety of C. turgidus Pfr., but 

 further study of larger series shows it to be distinct. It is a smaller, 



