274 PARTULA, ROTUMA, FIJI. 



No. 4285 Carnegie Mus., four specimens labelled "Tu- 

 tuila." Smaller than the preceding, the spiral striation not 

 so strong on the last whorl, lip flesh-tinted. Length 14%, 

 diam. 9, aperture S 1 /^ mm., whorls 4% 



P. gonochila Pfr. is no doubt closely related to subgono- 

 ckila. In both the spiral striation of the embryonic whorls 

 is very fine 'and distinct, and the pitting is conspicuous. 

 P. gonochila is a more solid shell, darker colored, with the 

 lip more thickened within, and the upper part of the spire 

 more narrowly conic. 



Rotuma species. 

 62. P. LEEFEI (E. A. Smith). 



' 'Shell dextral, small, ovate, umbilicate, yellow-olivaeous, 

 pale below the suture and towards the apex; spire moder- 

 ately produced, rounded at the apex. Whorls 5, a little con- 

 vex, closely sculptured with delicate growth lines and very 

 fine spiral striae, more or less obsolete on the last whorl ; last 

 whorl hardly descending in front. Aperture ovate, brown- 

 ish inside, about half the total length; peristome white, ex- 

 panded and reflexed, slightly thickened. Length 14, diam. 

 9 mm. ; aperture 6 x 3~y 2 mm. inside" (Smith) . 



Rotuma Island (R. B. Leefe). 



Partula leefei SMITH, Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History (6) xx, 520 (Dec., 1897). 



"A small species, distinguished by its style of coloration 

 and general form." 



Rotuma lies between the Fiji and Ellice Is., about 300 miles 

 N. N.-W. of the former. Its size is about 8x2 miles, with 

 a height of 800 ft. 



Fiji species: Section THAKOMBAUA, n. sect. 



The single Fijian Partula, P. lirata, is very distinct by the 

 coarse spiral sculpture of the post-embryonic whorls and the 

 tubercular callus or tooth on the parietal wall near the 

 columella. 



P. lirata has no near relatives among known forms, and for 



