28 STOMATELLA. 



rounded-ovate, within subsulcate and whitish radiate, columellar 

 margin subthickened, white, right margin simple. 



Long. 5, lat. 4, alt. 2 mill. ; aperture 4 mill, long, 3 broad. (Lam- 

 bert.) 



Loyalty Is., New Caledonian Archipelago. 



Stomatella granosa LAMBERT, Journ. de Conchyl. 1874, p. 374 ; 

 loc. cit. 1875, t. 4, f. 2. 



S. CONCINNA Gould. PI. 2, figs. 6, 7 ; pi. 55, figs. 27, 28. 



Shell small, with large, oval body-whorl and minute spire ; sur- 

 face covered with equal spiral riblets, separated by interstices nearly 

 as wide as themselves, and cut into tiny, compressed beads by close, 

 regular impressed lines of increment. Color white, with oblique 

 spiral bands of red, frequently broken or splitting. Spire extremely 

 minute, of 3-4 whorls ; aperture roundly oval, white and showing 

 pink stripes within. 



Alt. 4, diam. 3 mill. ; aperture, alt. 3i, width 2f mill. 



Sandwiches .; Paumotus. 



Stomatella concinna GLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii, p. 26, 1845. 

 Gena concinna Old. ADAMS in Thes. Conch, ii, p. 831, t. 173, f. 20, 

 21. 



A pretty little shell. The deep red color of the stripes does not 

 extend into the inter-liral grooves, being confined to the riblets. One 

 specimen before me is unicolored deep purple-brown, with a pink- 

 edged columellar crescent of white. 



S. PULCHELLA A. Adams. PI. 2, figs. 32, 33, 34. 



Shell convexly depressed, oval, white, spotted with red ; back 

 convex, all over striated ; spire rather prominent, whorls rounded ; 

 aperture large, oval, pearly and iridescent within. (Ad.) 



Habitat unknown. 



Gena pulchella AD., P. Z. S. 1850, p. 38 ; Thes. Conch, ii, p. 831, 

 t.173, f. 17, 18, 19. 



S. ASPERULATA A. Adams. PI. 55, figs. 24, 25. 



Shell haliotis-shaped, back convex ; rufous-brown, ornamented 

 with a broad white girdle ; decussated by elevated rather close-set 

 lines and oblique striae ; spire posterior, rather prominent, white ; 

 aperture long, oval. (Ad.) 



Habitat unknown. 



