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front, subconstricted behind the whitish-yellow lip. Aperture con- 

 colored within, oblique, subrhombic-lunar ; peristorae acute, white, 

 superior margin arched forward, subreflexed, becoming more 

 reflexed toward the columella, which suddenly becomes appressed to 

 the base, and is of a rosy (slightly violet) color. Alt. 141, greater 

 diam. 19, lesser 15 mill. (Souv.) 



Woodlark Island, Louisiade Group. 



H. woodlarkiana Souv., Journ. de Conchyl. 1863, pp. 76, 172, t. 

 5, f. 2. PFR., Monogr. v, p. 271. 



H. GORENDUENSIS Brazier. Unfigured. 



Shell imperforated, trochus-shaped, rather thin, obliquely, finely 

 striated and transversely wrinkled, flesh tinted or crearn color ; orna- 

 mented with pinkish opaque spots and dots ; spire rather conoid ; 

 whorls 5, convex, the last more convex, the first three apical whorls 

 dark rose-pink, the fourth a little lighter in color, the fifth slightly 

 keeled in front, cream colored, and marked with opaque pinkish 

 spots and dots, base convex, sculptured same as above; aperture 

 triangular, very much produced and contracted in front, constricted 

 behind the aperture, interior bright pink, peristome blackish-purple, 

 slightly reflected ; the right margin descending in front, columellar 

 margin flattened and expanded, tinged with brown, margins joined 

 with a thin pink callus entering spirally into the interior of the 

 aperture. 



Two specimens of this very pretty species were found by Baron 

 Miklouho-Maclay. One was dead and weatherbeaten, the other was 

 found with the animal alive. The Baron informs me that the ani- 

 mal was black, and that the back of the neck was brown. (Braz.) 



Alt. 15, greater diam. 25, lesser 20 mill. 



Gorendu, Maclay Coast, New Guinea. 



H. ( Geotrochus) gorenduensis BRAZIER, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales, x, p. 841, 1886. 



H. ROLLSIANA Smith. PL 1, fig. 12. 



Shell im perforate conoid-subglobose, whitish or rubescent, marked 

 with brown at the suture, variously banded with brown zones, and 

 having a streak of orange behind the lip. Whorls 5, a little con- 

 vex, sculptured with oblique close rough striae and lines of growth ; 

 last whorl rounded on its latter part, obtusely carinated in front of the 

 mouth, always zoned with white, tinted with purple-rose beneath, in 



