HALIOTIS. 89 



H. STOMATI.EFORMIS Reeve. PI. 3, fig. 4 ; pi. 49, figs. 30-35. 



Shell small, oval ; the spire subterminal ; sculptured with clearly, 

 deeply cut spiral cords and radiating folds, which on the last whorl 

 project as little scales on the spiral line ; holes 3 to 5, somewhat 

 tubular. 



The right side is decidedly straighter than the left, the convexity 

 variable. The color is brown, variously marked with white and 

 green. The spiral lirce are deeply-cut, 24-30 in number (counting 

 along the lip-edge) exclusive of 5 or 6 below the row of holes ; they 

 are crossed by numerous uneven radiating folds, those on the later 

 part appearing as projecting lamellae across the riblets. The 5 or 6 

 unequal spiral cords between the row of holes and the columella are 

 more or less beaded or scaly. The spire is small, not much elevated, 

 its distance from nearest margin one-fifth to one-seventh the total 

 length of shell. Inside silvery, iridescent. Columellar plate wide 

 above, gradually narrowing and not at all truncate toward the base. 

 Holes 3 to 5, subcircular, somewhat tubular. 



Length 32, width 20, convexity 7 mill. 



Length 31, width 18*, convexity 7-1 mill. 



New Caledonia ! Viti Islands ! 



H. stomaticeformis REEVE, Conch. Icon., t. 17, f. 74. SOWERBY, 

 Thes. Conch, v, p. 26, f. 22 (excl. syn. and fig. 23).- IT. exigua DKR. 

 In Godeffroy Cat. v ; and WEIXKAUFF in Conchyl. Cab., p. 29, t. 

 13, f. 2, 3. 



I believe this to be the shell to which the name exigua was given 

 in the Godeffroy catalogue but without description. Afterward 

 Bunker published another species under the same name. The 

 stomaticeformis has a very rough, sharply-sculptured exterior, and 

 the spire-cavity is concealed by the wide columellar lip. 



Reeve gives New Zealand as the locality; collectors have not 

 recently found it there ; numerous specimens are before me from the 

 localities given above. 



H. JACXEXSIS Reeve. PI. 3, fig. 7. 



Shell oblong-ovate, spirally peculiarly rudely ridged, ridges very 

 irregular and rather scaly, somewhat smooth next the perfora- 

 tions which are slightly tubiferous and distant ; reddish-orange ; in- 

 terior silvery. A very characteristic species, to which there is little 

 or no approximation in any other. {Reeve.) 



Jacna, Island of Boliol, Philippines. 



