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nation of his type. This examination will sooner or later be made 

 by someone, and the nomenclature revised if necessary. 



Var. MYSOLENSIS Pfr. PI. 7, figs. 29, 30. 



Smaller and more elevated than the type ; sub-perforate ; having 

 a broad basal and a narrow peripheral band. 



Island of My sol. 



The specimen before me is larger than Pfeiffer's figures, but other- 

 wise similar. 



H. WAIGIOUENSIS H. Adams. PI. 17, figs. 34, 35. 



Subcovered perforate, depressed-turbinate, rather thin, plicate- 

 striate ; pale tawny, banded with white at suture and periphery, and 

 ornamented with narrow reddish bands ; spire conoidal, rather acute ; 

 whorls 5, a little convex, the last depressed-rounded, descending in 

 front. Aperture very oblique, lunar-oval ; peristome white, broadly 

 expanded and re flexed, forming an angle with the columellar margin, 

 which is dilated, reflexed above the perforation, and provided inside 

 with an elongated tubercle. Alt. 21, diam. maj. 40, min. 32 mill. 

 (JET. Ad.) 



Island of Waighiou. 



H. waigiouensis H. AD., P. Z. S. 1865, p. 415, t. 21, f. 6, 7. PFR., 

 Mon. Hel. Viv. v, p. 339, 502. TAPPARONE CANEFRI, Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Genov. xix, p. 147, 1883. Papuina waigiouensis WALLACE, 

 P. Z. S. 1865, p. 411. 



A large species, evidently closely allied to H. novoguineensis. 



H. BRAZIERS Brazier. PI. 5, figs. 93, 94, 95, 96. 



Nearly covered perforate, solid, depressed turbinate, the periphery 

 rounded ; spire low-conic, composed of 4? convex whorls, the last 

 descending in front, rather flattened beneath. Surface roughened 

 by rude shallow, irregular spiral and oblique furrows and mallea- 

 tions. Color opaque white, the latter two whorls marbled and 

 streaked irregularly with dark brown, the earlier whorls and apex 

 bluish or corneous-white. Aperture very oblique, transversely oval, 

 dark brown inside ; the peristome is thin, expanded, white, baso-col- 

 umellar margin reflexed, nearly concealing the umbilicus. Parietal 

 wall and a spot at the insertion of the columella dark brown. 



Alt. 19, greater diam. 253, lesser 20 \ mill. 



Yule Island, Southern New Guinea. 



