Land- Shells from New Caledonia. 219 



Charopa Mun'once, sp. ii. (b^ig- 1.) 



Shell depressed, subcarinute, soiuewliat pellucid, pale 

 yellowish horn-colour, indistinctly blotchel and streaked with 

 li-^ht chestnut ; whorls 3, sculptured with closely set arcuate 

 rihs, the last wh^rl flattened obliquely ; sutures impressed ; 

 umbilicus very wide; peristome simple; aperture ovate. 



Alt. 2, diam. maj. G25 mm. 



Aperture: alt. 2, diam. 2'25 mm. 



Jf'ib. New Caledonia. 



Chiefly remarkable tor the exc<'ssively wide umbilicus, 

 which easily distinguishes it tVom any other species hitherto 

 described from New Caletlonia. 



Charopa vicina, sp, n. (tig. 5.) 



Resembling C. Marionce in general ouiline; it is, how- 

 ever, rather smaller, higher in the spire, more carinate, and 

 of a uniform rich brown colour; the arcuate ribs are much 

 finer, the sutures not so well impressed, and the umbilicus 

 is deeper and rather narrower. 



Alt. 2'75, diam. m;ij. 5"7a mm. 



Aperture : alt. 2, diam. maj. \'lb mm. 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



Charopa Oassiesiana, sp. n. (Fig. 6.) 



Siiell narrowly perforate, thin, somewhat transparent, 

 yellowish horn-colour; whorls 3, regularly sculptured, with 

 rather distant broad and rounded ribs ; sutures impressed ; 

 peristome simple ; columella descending obliquely and slightly 

 reflexed outwards ; aperture roundly lunate, a callosity 

 appearing inside the shell upon the parietal whorl. 



Alt. 25, diam. maj. 5 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 2, diam. maj. 1*5 mm. 



Hob. New Caledonia. 



Mr. Guele considers this s|)ecies to be closely allied to 

 C. meliUe, Gass.* ; it is, however, much smaller and more 

 swollen, and shows no signs of carination ; the umbilicus is 

 also very much narrower and the sculpture is a great deal 

 coarser than is the case with C. melitce. 



1 have much pleasure in dedicating this pretty little species 

 to the memory of the late Jean Baptiste Gassies, whose 



* Gassies, " Faune Conchyliologique Terrostre et Fliivio-lacii>tre de 

 la Nouvelle Calt^donie," pt. ii., Actes Soc. Linn. Bordtaiix. xxviii. 1871, 

 pp. 24 25. 



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