PHOTINULA. 



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Unfigured and undetermined Photinula. 



PHOTINA NIGRA A. Adams. Shell depressed-conical, imperforate, 

 solid, black, smooth ; whorl subrotund, transversely sulcate ; longitu- 

 dinally obliquely substriate ; last whorl subangulate ; umbilical 

 region impressed, covered by a white callous. 



(Ad. in P. Z. S. 1851, p. 192.) 



Habitat unknown. 



PHOTINA FUSCA A. Adams. Shell oblique, subconical, shining, 

 variegated with brown ; whorls a little convex, transversely sulcate, 

 the last subangulate ; aperture subrotund, inside green iridescent. 



(Ad. in P. Z. S. 1851, p. 192.) 



Habitat unknown. 



PHOTINA SANDWICHIANA A. Adams. Shell orbicular-conic, im- 

 perforate, smooth, whitish, maculated with green and brown ; whorls 

 rounded, the last subangular ; apex rosy; aperture open, orbicular, 

 green and pearly inside; labium white; umbilicus covered by a 

 white callous. (Ad. in P. Z. S. 1851, p. 192.) 



Mataineka, Sandwich Is. 



This is not the Margarita sandwichiana Ad. of Sowerby, Jr. 

 (Reeve's Conch. Icon., f. 8), for that species is umbilicated. 



PHOTINULA QU^SITA A. Adams. Shell orbiculate-conic, spire a 

 little elevated, umbilical region deeply impressed, umbilicus covered 

 by a white callous ; fleshy-reddish, at the sutures radiately clouded 

 with chestnut, the periphery ornamented with oblique white and 

 chestnut spots; whorls 5*, convex, transversely lirate, the upper 

 lirse beaded, lower ones simple ; last whorl rounded-angular at the 

 periphery ; aperture subcircular, sulcate and vividly iridescent in- 

 side. Alt. 14, diam. 18 mill. 



Aniwa Bay, Tatiyama, Kino- 0-Sima, Japan 17 fms. 



Ann. & Mag. K H. 1864, vol. xiii, p. 140. 

 A doubtful member of this group. 



PHOTINULA VIAGINALIS Rochebrune et Mabille. 



Shell imperforate, depressed orbiculate, rather thick, solid, sub- 

 opaque, destitute of cuticle or color, decussated by slightly con- 

 spicuous stria3 and slightly prominent lirse ; spire minute, a little 

 convex, scarcely prominent ; apex minute, obtuse, submamillated ; 

 whorls 5?, plane at the sutures, then a little convex, irregularly 

 (the first rapidly, following very rapidly) increasing, separated by 



