368 HAMINEA. 



H. PETERSI Martens. Unfigured. 



Shell thin, oblong, sculptured with rather wide, light, sub- 

 vertical striae, pale yellowish, a little narrowed above, scarcely 

 umbilicated ; upper margin of aperture rising above the spire, nar- 

 rowly rounded ; columellar margin deeply receding, a little thick- 

 ened and simple. Length 19, greater diam. 13, lesser 11 mill, 

 aperture, length 23, width below, 7 mill. (Mts.). 



Mozambique (Peters) 



Haminea petersi Mrs., Monatsbr. K.-P. Akad. Wissensch. zu 

 Berlin, 1879, p. 737 (1880). 



Nearest allied to H. galba Pse., but the columellar margin shows 

 no fold and is more strongly retreating. 



H. PEMPHIS Philippi. PI. 40, fig. 87. 



Shell subglobose-rotund, thin, pellucid, rufescent white, sculpturec 

 with very fine transverse lines ; vertex umbilicated ; aperture 

 dilated at base, inner lip narrowly adnate. 



Alt. 7, diam. 5* lines. (Ph.). 



Red Sea (Gruner) 



B. pemphis PH., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1847, p. 122, not of A. Ad. nor 

 Sowb. ; see SMITH, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), ix, p. 347. Bulla (Ham 

 inea) tenella A. AD., Thes. p. 583, pi. 124, f. 104. Haminea tenella 

 SOWB., Conch. Icon., f. 18. 



The figure represents Adams' tenella, which is thus described : 

 "Shell oval, anteriorly somewhat narrowed, thin, fragile, horny, 

 pellucid, somewhat gibbous in the middle, longitudinally substri- 

 ated, with transverse irregular ridges and very fine lines; outer lip 

 rather angulated in the middle, posteriorly produced and rounded." 



H. SAVIGNYANA Gray. Unfigured. 



Shell ovate-oblong, buff, thin, pellucid, smooth ; vertex imperfor- 

 ate ; aperture narrow ; columellar margin subreflexed. Length one- 

 half inch. (Gray, Annals of Philos. (N. S.), ix, 1825, p. 408). 



Red Sea (J. E. Savigny). 



H. CURTA A. Adams. PL 40, figs. 84, 85. 



Shell elongately cylindrical, thin, pellucid, white, extremities 

 truncated, entirely transversely striated, strise engraved, rather wide 

 apart ; outer lip straight, posteriorly produced. (Ad.). 



Sandwich Is. (Mts.) ; Red Sea (H. Ad.) ; Suez (Smith). 



