HAMINEA. 36 



H. CYMBALUM Quoy & Gaimard. PI. 40, figs. 6, 7. 



Shell fragile, pellucid, globose, smooth, white ; aperture wide in- 

 front, narrowed behind ; right margin lightly inflated ; spire retuse. 

 A small species, globulose entirely white, translucid and polished,, 

 with slight growth-lines. Aperture large, rounded in front, con- 

 tracted behind ; vertex rounded and impressed but imperforate, the 

 lip rising a little above it. Alt. 7, diam. 5 lines. 



Island of Guam (Astrolabe). 



Bulla cymbalum Q. & G. Zool. Astrol. ii, p. S62, pi. 26, f. 26, 27. 

 AD., Thes., p. 580, pi. 124, f. 90. Haminea cymbalum Sows.,, 

 Conch. Icon., f. 20. ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 188. LISCHKE, Jap. 

 Meeres-Conch., p. 105. DKR., Ind. Moll. Mar. Jap., p. 166. MAR- 

 TENS, Mobius' Reise n. Mauritius, p. 303 ; Monatsber. Berl. Akad. 

 Wissensch. 1879, p. 737. 



Angas reports this species from " Port Lincoln, in deep water ; " 

 Lischke from Nagasaki, Japan ; Montrouzier from New Caledonia ; 

 Lienard from Mauritius ; Deshayes from Reunion, and von Mar- 

 tens found it in Peters' collection from the Querimba Is. It remains 

 to be seen whether all of these data really apply to Quoy's species. 



Species of S. Africa, Red Sea, Philippines to N. Australia. 



H. NATALENSIS Krauss. PI. 40, figs. 80, 81. 



Shell ovate-globose, subventricose, very thin, pellucid, shining,, 

 greenish-yellow, longitudinally striated ; vertex impressed but im- 

 perforate. Aperture ample, dilated behind ; outer margin arcuate, 

 produced above, rounded. Alt. 4'4, diam. 3'3 lines. (Kr.~). 



Natal (Krauss) ; Black River, Mauritius (Mobius) 



Bulla natalensis KRAUSS, Die Siidafrik. Moll., p. 71, pi. 4, f. 14. 

 H. natalensis MARTENS in Mobius' Reise n. Maurit., p. 303. Not 

 B. natalensis A. Ad. in Sowb., Thes. pi. 124, f. 86, nor H. natalensis 

 Sowb., in Conch. Icon., f. 7. 



The lip is much produced above the vertex, as in H. orbignyana 

 and H. antillarum. Both A. Adams and Sowerby have figured 

 specimens under the name natalensis, but in neither case are they 

 the same as Krauss' species, nor do they agree with each other. 



