116 aubiculid.e. 



9. Alexia microstoma. 



Shell fiisiformly ovate, solid, striated and somewhat wrinkled, 

 scarcely shining, reddish-brown horn-coloured ; spire convexly 

 conic, pointed ; suture very slight, indistinctly bordered ; whorls 

 eight, rather Hat, the last shorter than the spire, slightly at- 

 tenuated at base ; aperture oblique, semiovate ; parietal tooth 

 single, compressed, entering ; columellar plait minute, dentiform ; 

 peristome thin, indistinctly expanded, furnished with a callous 

 lip behind the edge. Length 8, breadth 3| mill. 



Auricula microstoma, Kiister, Auric, p. 52. 1. 1. f. 18, 19. 

 Leuconia microstoma, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, 



p. 56. n. 3. 

 Alexia microstoma, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 160 ; Mon. Auric, p. 151. 

 H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 241. 



Hah. Near Budua, Dalmatia (Kiist.). 



10. Alexia obsoleta. 



Shell imperforate, ovate-elliptical or somewhat turrited, thin, 

 very faintly striated, not shining, purplish chestnut-coloured or 

 wax-coloured ; spire rather convexly conic, pointed ; suture 

 bordered with an impressed line ; whorls eight, moderately 

 convex, the last scarcely longer than the spire, sometimes vari- 

 cose, slightly attenuated at base ; aperture rather oblique, semi- 

 ovate ; parietal plait single, strong, compressed, entering below 

 the middle, very rarely with an additional obsolete second 

 nodiform tooth ; columellar plait callous, twisted, oblique ; peri- 

 stome narrowly expanded; right margin lipped within, not 

 toothed; columellar margin reflexed, adnate. Length 10, 

 breadth 4-4i mill. 



Auricula myosotis, Pfr. in Wiegm. Arch, f Nat. 1841, i. p. 224 : 



not Drap. 

 Alexia obsoleta, Pfr. in Malak. Bl. 1854, p. Ill ; Syn. Auric. 



n. 161 ; Mon. Auric, p. 151. 



H. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 241. 



Hab. Trieste, on walls of the haven. 



11. Alexia Bermudensis. 



Shell imperforate, oblong-ovate, rather thin, faintly striated 

 longitudinally, principally near the suture, not sbining, blackish- 

 brown or horn-coloured ; spire convexly conic, with the apex 

 blackish, rather pointed ; suture distinctly bordered ; whorls 

 seven to eight, moderately convex, the last as long as, or a little 

 shorter than, the spire, scarcely attenuated at base ; aperture 



