TORTAXIS. 9 



striatulate, more strongly so at the suture, glossy and trans- 

 lucid, pale greenish-yellow. Apex obtuse. Whorls 9, convex, 

 the last slightly tapering to the base, suture deep. Aperture 

 quadrilateral-ovate, oblique. Peristome a little expanded, 

 thickened, the columellar margin short, adnate, arcuately re- 

 ceding; columella twisted, not truncate at the base, though 

 angularly channelled. Length 28, diam. 7.75, aperture alt. 7, 

 width 4 mm. (Gredl.) . 



China: a mountain near Yin-tchu-fu (or Hen-tchu-fu), 

 Hunan (Fuchs). 



Stenogyra (Euspiraxis) mira GREDL., Jahrb. D. M. Ges., 

 xi, 1884, p. 146, pi. 3, f. 3 ; Mai. Bl. n. F., ix, 1887, p. 142. 

 ANCEY, Bull. Soc. Malac. France, ii, 1885, p. 133, with var. 

 megeana. Stenogyra fuchsiana Heude, Notes Moll. terr. Val- 

 lee fleuve Bleu, p. 117, pi. 30, f. 16 (1884). 



' ' This largest of the Chinese species is distinguished by its 

 unusual size, and more by the twisted axis which recalls Acha- 

 tina, and by the nearly quadrangular aperture. " 



Mr. Ancey has commented upon specimens from Kuang- 

 yien-shien, prov. Setchuan, measuring 27x8 mm., noting that 

 Gredler's figure is defective in that the spire is shown too 

 much attenuated and the apical whorls too small. I have not 

 seen topotypes, and therefore hesitate to criticize Gredler's 

 figure, which I have copied, pi. 2, fig. 18. 



6a. Var. fuchsianus Heude. PI. 2, figs. 19, 20, 21, 22. 



The specimens before me (pi. '2, figs. 19, 20) are from 

 Heng-Shan-Hsien, prov. Hunan, received from B. Schmacker,. 

 Two measure as follows: 



Length 27, diam. 8, length of aperture 8 mm. 



Length 28, diam. 8, length of aperture 8 TVJH. 



There are 8y 2 convex whorls. The aperture is oblique, the 

 outer lip only perceptibly arched forward below the upper 

 insertion, the edge being narrowly expanded. There is a nar- 

 row umbilical slit behind the reflexed columellar lip. The 

 surface is greenish-yellow, sculptured weakly with growth- 

 wrinkles, which are hardly noticeably stronger below the 

 suture. The apex is much larger than figured by Gredler for 



