On new Species 0/ Voluta li-c. from Japan. 471 



black fascia on each lateral area ; abJomeii above, body 

 beneath, antl logs more or less ocliraceous ; anterior margin 

 of face piceous ; tegmina pale virescent, with a broad slightly 

 oblique broken fuscous fascia extending from apex of radial 

 area to apical area of clavus, smaller and more obscure 

 fuscous mottlings on costal membrane, apical area, and 

 clavus; wings dull greyish, the veins somewhat ocliraceous ; 

 vertex of bead longer than broad, a little concave, apex 

 narrowed and roimded, lateral margins strongly ridged ; 

 face considerably longer than broad, strongly sinuate 

 anteriorly, thence obliquely widened to near posterior 

 margins of eyes and afterwards slightly obliquely continued 

 to clypeus, the lateral margins strongly ridged; clypeus 

 obliquely striate on each lateral area ; pronotum distinctly 

 centrally carinate ; tegmina about twice as long as broad, 

 costal margin not or very slightly sinuate, costal membrane 

 a little more than three times as broad as radial area, apical 

 margin roundly truncate. 



Long., excl. tegm., 12 mm.; exp. tegm. 31 mm. 



Hub. Hainan ; Mangrin (Brit. Mus.). 



Synonymical Notes. 

 Genus Neoalardus, n. nom. 



Alardus, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xii. p. 475 (1903), nom. 

 preocc. (Busch, 1851). 



1'ype, A^. typicus, Dist. {Alardus). 



Genus Barunoides, n. nom. 

 Baruna, Dist. Faun. B. I., Rhynch. iii. p. 283 (1906), nom. preocc. 

 Type, B. alhosignata, Dist. (Baruna). 



XLIX. — Descriptions of new Species 0/ Voluta, Latiaxis, and 

 Calliostoma/rom Japan. By G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. 



Voluta kij-asei, sp. n. (Fig. 1.) 



Testa fusiformis, crassiuscula, pallide fulvescens ; anfractus 8, 

 embryonales graciles, Isevigati, sequentes convexi, longitudiualiter 

 costati, spiraliter conspicue rugoso-striati ; sutura albo callosa ; 

 anfractus ultimus | longitudinis testae sequans, superne concavo- 

 constrictus, deinde convexus, basin versus attenuatus, undique 

 transversim lirato-striatus ; striis confertis, rugose subgranulatis ; 

 apertura oblonga, mediocriter lata, utrinque acuminata, intus 



