PARTULA, SAMOAN ISLANDS. 271 



strigation and subperipheral band, etc. We have no sufficient 

 ground for doubting the evidence of an experienced collector 

 that P. brazieri inhabits the Samoan Islands; yet up to this 

 time no other naturalist has encountered it there. 



59. P. BRAZIERI Pease. PL 33, figs. 1, 2. 



The shell is dextral oblong-acuminate, openly and deeply 

 rimate, rather thin, glossy, whitish, having a very thin cuticle 

 which on the last whorl is indistinctly streaked with very pale 

 greenish-yellow, this color strongest in an indistinct belt 

 below the periphery, and on the base. After the first half 

 whorl the embryonic shell (fig. 2) is sculptured with close, 

 punctate spiral striae ; post-embryonic whorls sculptured with 

 engraved spiral lines, which are rather widely spaced, and 

 on the last half of the last whorl are obsolete above periphery. 

 Spire conic, rather slender above. Embryonic shell of 2% 

 flat whorls; following whorls convex, the last whorl convex 

 above, very full basally. Aperture slightly oblique, white 

 within. Peristome narrowly reflexed, thickened within, 

 white, tapering towards the upper termination, where it is 

 continued in a small triangular callus filling the angle of 

 the aperture. Columellar lip dilated inwards, a trifle grooved 

 along its junction with the body ; its outer edge continued a 

 short distance upward on the parietal wall. Parietal callus 

 transparent. Length 24, diam. 13.1, length of aperture 12.9 

 mm. ; whorls 5%. 



Samoan Islands: Tutuila (Brazier). 



Partula ~brazieri PSE., Amer. Journ. of Conch, vii, 1872, 

 p. 27, pi. 9, f. 5. Cf. GARRETT, Proc. A. N. S. Phila. 1887, 

 p. 135, and HARTMAN, Nautilus xi, 44. 



Described and figured from the unique type, no. 59846 A. 

 N. S. P. Garrett and Hartman have expressed doubts as to 

 the locality assigned by Pease on the authority of Brazier. 

 The shell is so similar to species of the New Hebrides that it 

 seems possible that it was obtained in that group. Trading 

 schooners from Sydney usually touched at numerous islands, 

 exchanging their cargoes of rum, cloth, guns and trinkets for 



