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streaked and indistinctly spirally banded with the same shade below 

 the peripheral zone. Earlier whorls unicolored, corneous or whitish. 



Aperture oblique, peristome pink, its face thickened, convex; nar- 

 rowly expanded, reflexed, sinuous above; columella arcuate, adnate, 

 with no tooth or fold. Alt. 18, greater diam. 21, lesser 17? mill. 



Sudest Id., Louisiade Is. 



H. louisiadensis FORBES, Voy. Rattlesnake, appendix, p. 376, t, 

 2, f. 8. PFR., Monogr. iii, p. 174. REEVE, Conch. Icon. f. 1449. 

 H. millicenta Cox, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 323, t. 34, f. 2, 2a ; L c. 1873, p. 

 566. PFR. Monogr. vii, p. 313. H. Thomsoni E. A. SMITH, Ann. 

 Mag. N. H. 1889, p. 202, t. 13, f. 12, 13. 



This species has the lip like H. fringilla, but the spire is conical 

 and the surface finely wrinkled. Slightly differing varieties occur 

 on the different islands. 



Var. MILLICENT^: Cox. PI. 4, figs. 64, 65. 



Differs from the type in having the lip white, and more produced 

 forward above. 



Var. THOMSONI Smith. PI. 7, figs. 31, 32. 



Imperforate, subconic-globose, rosy -purple, spotted and variegated 

 with pale buff, closely sculptured with lines of growth, and minutely 

 obliquely corrugated ; whorls 4J, a little convex, rapidly widening, 

 separated by simple sutures, the last whorl at first carinated, the 

 carina becoming obsolete, at the aperture suddenly deflexed, con- 

 stricted behind the lip ; aperture oblique, elongated, rosy -purple 

 inside ; peristome whitish, expanded and reflexed, upper margin 

 sinuated forward ; columellar margin appressed, obliquely recti- 

 linear within. Alt. 18, greater diam. 27, lesser 20 mill. (Smith.') 



Var. Shell subdiaphanous, varied and spotted with buff. 



St. Aignan, Louisiade Group. 



H. WOODLARKIANA Souverbie. PI. 3, figs. 42, 43. 



Imperforate, semiglobose, obliquely striate, very finely granulose- 

 malleate, here and there very obsoletely spirally striate ; rather thin, 

 shining, subtranslucid, violaceous, darker at the apex, paler at the 

 umbilical region, having four whitish bauds, the three upper more 

 or less interrupted and brown, the fourth is wider and continuous, 

 at the periphery. Circum-umbilical area paler, having three narrow, 

 ill-defined whitish bands. Whorls 4, convex, the suture impressed, 

 the last whorl carinated, more convex beneath, a little descending in 



