362 HAMINEA. 



H. STRIGOSA A. Adams. Unjigured. 



Shell cylindric-ovate, rounded at both ends, white, shining, sub- 

 opaque, transversely most minutely striolate throughout, longitu- 

 dinally streaked ; aperture narrow, dilated in front ; columellar 

 margin simple, arcuate; lip straight, posteriorly produced and, 

 rounded (Ad., Ann. Mag. (3), ix, p. 156). 



Tabu-Sima, Japan, 25 fms. 



White, with longitudinal slightly raised streaks, and entirely trans- 

 versely striated. In form it resembles H. lucida A. Adams ; but 

 the aperture is rounded anteriorly, and not produced as in that 

 species. (Ad."). 



H. GRISEA Smith. Unjigured. 



Shell shortly cylindrical, subplanate above, rounded below, thin,, 

 imperforate ; blue-white under a thin gray epidermis, tinged with 

 buff toward the apex, shining ; most minutely and closely spirally 

 striate, obsoletely decussated by arcuate growth-lines; aperture nar- 

 row above, slightly produced above the vertex, dilated at base; 

 columella obliquely somewhat twisted ; lip thin, inserted in the 

 middle of the vertex and thickened there. Alt. 6, diam. 3 mill. ().. 



Of Japan, Lat. 42 52' N. t long. 144 40' E., in 48 frns. (St. 

 John). 



Haminea grisea SMITH, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xvi, 1875 p. 114. 



If. corticata Moller, is the nearest ally of this species ; but the 

 lateral outlines of that species are more convex, and the epidermis 

 of a more yellow color. In JET. grisea the columellar portion of the 

 body-whorl is of a yellowish color, and the termination of the 

 slightly olive-grey epidermis is defined by a blackish edge. (&). 



H. EXARATA Philippi. PI. 40, fig. 97. 



Shell grooved by simple impressed transverse lines ; superior 

 angle of the aperture produced, base rounded. 

 Alt. 8, diam. 6, thickness 4 lines. 



Northern China (Largilliert).. 



Bullcea exarata PH., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1849, p. 141. Haminea ex- 

 arata MKE., Mai. Bl. i, p. 46. B. (Haminea) sinensis A. AD., 

 p. 584, pi. 104, f. 98. H. sinensis SOWB., C. Icon., f. 21. 



