OPEAS, CHINA. 165 



rounded at the base. Aperture slightly oblique, small, long- 

 oval; columellar margin lightly arcuate, a little dilated, not 

 truncate. Length 8, diam. 1.66, aperture 1.75 mm. long. 

 (Gredl). 



China: Hunan, very likely on the Ape Mountain (Fuchs) ; 

 Kuang-si. 



Stenogyra gracilior GREDL., Jahrb. d. M. Ges. viii, p. 117, 

 pi. 6, f. 3; Nachrbl. 1890, p. 153. Opeas pyrgula A. Ad., 

 GREDL., Malak. Bl. ix, 1887, p. 142. 



An extremely slender shell, which Gredler subsequently 

 referred to 0. pyrgula A. Ad., I think erroneously. It is 

 certainly related to 0. filaris Hde. 



49. 0. VESTITUM (Heude). PL 20, figs. 34, 35. 



Shell oblong-turriculate, covered-perforate, covered with a 

 silky epidermis, whitish, striatulate. Spire long-conic; 

 whorls 8, regularly increasing, joined by a slightly impressed 

 suture, the last whorl less than a third the total length. 

 Aperture obliquely piriform, sinuated, the columellar margin 

 dilated, a little reflexed, umbilicus very narrow. Length, 

 14, diam. 3.5 mm. (Hde.). 



China: Shanghai and ravines at Song-kiang, quite com- 

 mon. (Hde.) . 



Stenogyra vestita HDE., Notes sur les Mollusques terrestres 

 de la Vallee du Fleuve Bleu, Memoires concernant 1'Histoire 

 NatureUe de 1 'Empire Chinois, p. 55, pi. 17, f. 26 (1882). 



50. 0. HYEMALE (Heude) . PL 20, figs. 36, 37. 



Shell turriculate-elongate, covered with a brownish, silky 

 cuticle, striatulate, pellucid; spire conic, the apex rather ob- 

 tuse, whorls 7, flattened, joined by a scalar suture, the last 

 whorl more than half the total length. Aperture oval, colu- 

 mellar margin nearly equal to the outer lip, subarcuate, a 

 little reflexed; umbilicus very narrow. Length 8.5, diam. 

 2.5mm. (Hde). 



China : high on the mountains of Kiun-tcheu, Hupe. 



Stenogyra hyemalis HEUDE, Mem., p. 56, pi. 17, f. 25. 



