472 On new Species q/" Voluta d;c. from Japan. 



albida, ad limbum flavidula ; peristoma simplex, leviter incras- 

 sata, postice late sinuata ; columella rectiuscula, biplicata, plicis 

 perobliquis, postica vix conspicua. 

 Long. 156, lat. 55 mm. 



Hah. Kii, Japan. 



This shell differs from V. prevostiana, Crosse, principally 

 in its strongly pronounced rough spiral sculpture ; it is also 

 of a uniform pale colour, without any of the colour-markings 

 wliich adorn that species. 



The specimen (the only one I have seen) has the appear- 

 ance of having been taken alive, as the interior of the aperture 

 is quite lustrous. 



Fi-. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 1. — Vohita htfasei. 5 nnt. size. 

 Fig. 2. — Latia^ris annatus. Nat. size. 

 Fig. 3. — CaUiostoma aculeatiim. Magnified. 



Latiaxis armatus, sp. n. (Fig. 2.) 



Testa abbreviato-fusiformis, alba ; spira acute pyramidata ; anfractus 

 8, angalati, spiraliter dense lirati, minute squamati, ad angulum 

 muricati ; ultimus supra angulum subplanato declivis, adaugulum 

 squamis elongatis angustis oblique erectis armatus, infra angulum 

 convexus, paulo infra medium contractus ; umbilicus angustus, 



