362 HAMINEA. 



H. STRIGOSA A. Adams. Unfigured. 



Shell cylindric-ovate, rounded at both ends, white, shining, sub- 

 opaque, transversely most minutely striolate throughout, longitu- 

 dinally streaked; aperture narrow, dilated in front; columellar 

 margin simple, arcuate ; lip straight, posteriorly produced and 

 rounded (Ad., Ann. Mag. (3), ix, p. 156). 



Tabu-Sima, Japan, 25 fms.. 



White, with longitudinal slightly raised streaks, and entirely trans- 

 versely striated. In form it resembles H. lucida A. Adams ; but 

 the aperture is rounded anteriorly, and not produced as in that 

 species. 



H. GRISEA Smith. Unfigured. 



Shell shortly cylindrical, subplanate above, rounded below, thin,. 

 imperforate ; blue-white under a thin gray epidermis, tinged with 

 buif toward the apex, shining ; most minutely and closely spirally 

 striate, obsoletely decussated by arcuate growth-lines; aperture nar- 

 row above, slightly produced above the vertex, dilated at base ; 

 columella obliquely somewhat twisted; lip thin, inserted in the 

 middle of the vertex and thickened there. Alt. 6, diam. 3 mill. ().. 



Off Japan, Lat. 42 52' N., long. 144 40' E., in 48 fms. (St.. 

 John). 



Haminea grisea SMITH, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xvi, 1875 p. 114. 



H. corticata Mo'ller, is the nearest ally of this species ; but the- 

 lateral outlines of that species are more convex, and the epidermis 

 of a more yellow color. In If. grisea the columellar portion of the 

 body-whorl is of a yellowish color, and the termination of the 

 slightly olive-grey epidermis is defined by a blackish edge. ($.). 



H. EXARATA Philippi. PI. 40, fig. 97. 



Shell grooved by simple impressed transverse lines ; superior 

 angle of the aperture produced, base rounded. 

 Alt. 8, diam. 6, thickness 4 lines. 



Northern China (Largilliert).. 



Bullasa exarata PH., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1849, p. 141. Haminea ex- 

 arata MKE., Mai. Bl. i, p. 46. B. (Haminea) sinensis A. AD., Thes^ 

 p. 584, pi. 104, f. 98. H. sinensis SOWB., 0. Icon., f. 21. 



