20 STOMATELLA. 



S. CANDIDA A. Adams. PL 53, figs. 88, 89. 



Shell suborbiculate, depressed, white, transversely carinate all 

 over, the riblets small, close, very numerous, a little elevated, sub- 

 nodulose ; interstices very delicately striate ; spire rather depressed ; 

 whorls rounded ; aperture oblique, subcircular, longer than wide. 



A pure white species, orbiculately depressed, with numerous acute 

 keels on the whorls, and with the spaces between the ribs finely 

 striated. (Ad.) 



Corean archipelago, on coral reefs. 



S. Candida Ad., in Thes. Conch, ii, p. 136, t. 174, f. 22. Sown, 

 in Conch. Icon., f. 8. 



S. HALIOTOIDEA Sowerby. PL 52, figs. 40, 41. 



Shell Haliotis-shaped, thin, apex acute, brown, painted with varied 

 white and rufous, sometimes whitish spotted with green ; whorls 

 rather flattened, transversely lirate, the lirse close, rather roughened ; 

 umbilical region impressed, scarcely rimate ; aperture rounded-oval, 

 oblique. 



Shell rather orbicular, with an acute apex, transversely lirate, 

 and variously colored with red, green, brown and white. (Ad.) 



Philippines. 



S. haliotoidea (Sowb.) A. ADAMS, in Thes. Conch, ii, p. 837, f. 174, 

 f. 10, 11. SOWB., in Conch. Icon., f. 4. 



S. JAPONICA A. Adams. PL 53, fig. 97. 



Shell suborbicular, imperforate, convex, brown, transversely cost- 

 ulate, the riblets close, noduled, the interstices very finely longitu- 

 dinally striated ; spire rather prominent ; whorls costate, rounded ; 

 aperture subcircular, pearly within. 



The aperture in this species is subcircular, and the whorls are 

 rounded and transversely ribbed ; the color is brown, and the ribs 

 are nodulous and close-set. (Ad.) 



Japan. 



S.japonica AD., P. Z. S. 1850, p. 31 ; Thes. Conch, ii, p. 838, t. 

 174, f. 14. DUNKER, Moll. Jap., p. 23. SOWB., in Conch. Icon., 

 f.6. 



S. PALLIDA A. Adams. PL 53, fig. 82. 



Shell suborbicular with acuminate spire, white, painted with pale 

 longitudinal rays, transversely lirate, the interstices decussately 



