GIBBULA. 227 



T. globularim SCHRENCK. Bull, de 1'Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. 

 v, p. 512; Amurlandes Moll. p. 357, t. 16, f. 1-4. 

 A species of doubtful generic position. 



G. RED1MITA Gould. 



Shell depressed, orbicular, narrowly perforated, greenish-pearly, 

 iridescent, line ornamented with black, the apex white ; whorls 4J, 

 rather convex, encircled by 3 or 4 lirse or carinse (on the last whorl 

 about 12, slenderer below) ; umbilicus white, small ; aperture large, 

 circular, pearly; columella white, somewhat reflexed above, joining 

 the outer lip with a thin callus. Alt. 3|, diam. 4 mill. (Smith.) 



Japan (43 fms.) 



This very pretty species is at once recognized by its green pearly 

 surface and the black-dotted spiral keels. (Smith.) 



G. redimita GLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. viii, p. 20 ; Otia Conch., 

 p. 159. T. (Gibbula) redimitus E. A. SMITH, Ann. Mag. N. H. 

 1875, p. 111. 



Gould's description is as follows : 



Shell small, ovate-conic, ventricose, thin, silvery under a calcareous 

 coat, encircled by remote flat lirse (5 on the spire), pale crimson, 

 the lime articulated red and white ; whorls 7, ventricose, tabulate ; 

 base rounded, scarcely rimate ; aperture rounded-ovate ; columella 

 thin, erect, dilated above, flattened below. Alt, 7, diam. 6 mill. 



Hakodadi Bay, Japan. 



G. STTCTICA A. Adams. 



Shell depressed-conical, broadly and deeply umbilicated, reddish, 

 maculated with brown ; whorls flat, encircled by white and black 

 articulated cinguli ; last whorl angular at the periphery ; base con- 

 vex, concentrically sulcate ; aperture orbicular; umbilicus open, 

 perspective. (-4. Ad.) 



New Caledonia. 



Omphalius sticticus A. AD. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 39. 

 G. DORI^E Caramagna. PL 51, fig. 27. 



Shell conoidal, solid, perforate; whorls 6J, angulate, excavated 

 above, ornamented with granose cinguli with square red spots, and 

 minutely longitudinally striate ; cinguli 5 on penultimate, 6 on the 

 last whorl, which is angulate at base ; base with 7 concentric cinguli, 

 tessellated red and Avhite. Shell rosy, sometimes olivaceous, 

 ornamented with darker maculations on the last whorl, the cinguli 



