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cate shells, with, narrow-streaked cuticle and markedly 

 swollen, saccate base. 



64. P. TURNERI Pfeiffer. PI. 33, figs. 5, 6. , 



Shell deeply rimate-umbilicate, ovate-conic, rather solid, 

 under the lens spirally wavy-striate, glossy, pale buff rayed 

 with darker streaks. Spire conic, rather acute. Whorls 5, 

 convex, the last slightly shorter than the spire, subcompressed 

 at the base. Columella simple, slightly arcuate. Aperture a 

 little oblique, oblong, peristome white, glossy, rather widely 

 expanded throughout, the margins converging, columellar 

 margin spreading. Length 22 to 23, diam. 11 to 12 aperture 

 with perist. 12 x 8.5 mm. (Pfr.). 



New Hebrides: Eromanga (Turner). 



Partula turneri PFR., P. Z. S. 1860, p. 40 ; Malak. Bl. 1861, 

 p. 16 ; Monogr. vi, 159. 



In the Monographia Pfeiffer mentions a var. &, "a little 

 more ventricose, rayed with isabelline 'and whitish." 



Figs. 5, 6, represents a specimen received from Cuming. 

 This typical form of P. turneri has very pale narrow yellow- 

 ish-green streaks on a white, faintly lemon tinted ground. 

 There is a very inconspicuous band below the periphery. The 

 base is markedly full, sack-like. The spiral lines are rather 

 widely spaced and become very faint on the last half of the 

 last whorl, except at the base. The figured example meas- 

 ures, length 23.5, diam. 13.3, length of aperture 12.5, width 

 8.9 mm. ; whorls 5%. Another of the same lot is smaller, 

 length 23, aperture 12 x 8.5 mm. 



Var. perstrigata nov. PL 33, fig. 4. 



The shell is pale buff or whitish, copiously marked with 

 narrow chestnut or pale chestnut streaks; form, size and 

 sculpture as in turneri. 



One of the lots of this form, received from Dr. Hartman 

 and said to have been collected by Geale, is marked "Tanna, 

 New Hebrides." The type lot, no. 59848 A. N. S. P., was re- 

 ceived from Cuming as "P. turneri var., New Caledonia", 

 an evident error. The variety closely resembles P. caledonica 

 in color, but it is much more robust. Cf. P. macgillivrayi. 



