HAMINEA. 363 



Adams' figure is copied on the plate, and his description is as fol- 

 lows : " Shell somewhat oval, open, semiopuque, white, longitudinally 

 substriated, with transverse engraved lines rather wide apart ; aper- 

 ture very wide, anteriorly dilated, posteriorly produced." 



H. FULGIDA A. Adams. Unfigured. 



Shell elongate-cylindrical, white, thin, shining, subpellucid, 

 rounded at both ends, transversely striolate throughout, striae most 

 minute and close; aperture narrow, dilated in front; columellar 

 margin acute, arcuate ; lip a little straightened, produced and angled 

 behind. (Ad., Ann. Mag. N. H. (3), ix, 1862, p. 155). 



Shan-tung (Kala-hai), China. 



This is a beautiful white, shining, semipellucid species, most like 

 .fiT. curta A. Adams, but more elongate and narrower, and engraved 

 with very fine close set transverse striolae. (Ad.). 



H. LUCIDA A. Adams. Unfigured. 



Shell cylindric-ovate, slightly rimate, rounded at each end, dia- 

 phanous, glassy, transversely striated throughout, the striae most 

 minute and close ; aperture narrow, produced in front; columellar 

 margin thin, arcuate; lip rounded posteriorly. (Ad., t. c., p. 155). 

 Gulf of Lian-tung ; Hulu-Shan Bay, China (Adams). 



Like H. brevissima and pygmcea A. Adams. An examination of 

 the animal shows it to belong to Haminea, the genus which in all 

 probability includes its above-named congeners. In my Mono- 

 graph of the family (Sowb., Thesaurus, Build}; they are arranged 

 under Cylichnidce. (Ad.). 



Polynesian Species. 

 H. CBOCATA Pease. PI. 40, fig. 3. 



Shell ovate-elongated, moderately solid, yellow, becoming orange 

 on the latter part of the last whorl, and opaque above and below. 

 Surface shining, showing slight, irregular growth-wrinkles and ex- 

 cessively fine, close, superficial spiral creuulated striae. Vertex nar- 

 row, very slightly impressed, imperforate or nearly so, opaque-white 

 in the center ; lip inserted on the right of the center of the vertex, 

 thickened ; outer lip well curved ; columella moderately concave, 

 with a reflexed white callus, not folded above. 



Alt. 13,diam. 8J mill. 



Sandwich Is. 



