14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Jan., 



white dots, and with alternate snowy and dark-brown spots below the 

 suture, the former raised into low nodules in places. Base spirally 

 striate. Lips lilac-tinted, the outer lip with about 8 tubercles within. 

 Columella with the usual two folds, and a row of small tubercles. 



Length 7, diam. 4.5 mm. 



Length 6.5, diam. 3.8 mm. 



Hachijojima, Izu. Types No. 86,002, A. N. S. P., from No. 1,391 

 of Mr. Hirase's collection. 



C. deshayesii Crosse, C. palumbina Gld. and C. sandwichensis Pse., 

 probably all one species, are larger than the above race, and more striate 

 on the back. 

 Columbella albinodulosa var. ogasawarana n. subsp. PI. Ill, fig. 23. 



Shell [fusiform, solid, gray-white, closely lineolate vertically with 

 brown, the lines irregular, and interrupted by two spiral belts of irregu- 

 lar brown and snowy dots and fretwork, and with two transverse chest- 

 nut spots or short bands upon the terminal varix; the brown lines 

 sometimes partially coalescent, and the pattern interrupted in some 

 specimens by a few broad snowy stripes. Some of the whorls of the 

 spire are usually weakly nodulose below the suture, the nodules white. 

 Whorls about 9, nearly flat, the last slightly convex, contracted below, 

 and very weakly striated spirally on and near the short siphonal 

 fasciole; expanded in a low rounded varix behind the outer lip. 

 Aperture white, toothed within, there being about 7 teeth within the 

 outer lip, 4 or 5 on the columellar margin, with a low, obtuse fold within. 



Length 8.7, diam. 3.3 mm.; length of aperture 4 mm. 



Hahajima, Ogasawara. Types No. 86,003, A. N. S. P., from No. 

 1,468 of Mr. Hirase's collection. 



This form differs from C. albinodulosa as figured by Reeve 3 and by 

 Fischer 4 in coloration, and in lacking spiral striation on the lower part 

 of the body-whorl. It is also a smaller form, and very likely will 

 prove to be specifically distinct. 



C. albinodulosa seems, from the figures, to approach some forms of 

 C. varians Sowb. 

 Columbella liocyma n. sp. PI. Ill, fig. 24. 



Shell obesely fusiform, rather thin, rose-red with snow-white dots at 

 rather wide intervals below the suture on the spire, and a whitish band 

 there on the last whorl, where there are also several white dots along 

 the border of the siphonal fasciole, which is dark brown tesselated with 

 white. Sculpture of numerous smooth, rounded longitudinal ribs a 



3 Conch. Icon., PL 23, fig. 138. 



4 Journ. de Conchyl., 1901, p. 101, figs. 3-6. 



