114 THE NAUTILUS. 



What of commercial opportunities in tlie Isle of Pines? Opinions 

 will vary, lint some indication may be liad in tlie lact tliat out of 

 a total population of eight thousand, five tliousand are Americans. 

 The land itself is by no means fertile. Tliere is nothing specially 

 inviting in tiie scenery, excepting (he North Coast, and educational 

 advantages are quite meager. Schools and churches there are, and 

 many cultured people, but morals are at a low ebb generally. The 

 climate is the Island's greatest asset, and its chief products will 

 always be the citrus fruits. 



NEW JAPANESE OVULIDJa. 



BY II. A. I'lLSBKY. 



OvuLA (Neosimma) iiiuasei, n. sp. Plate 7, fig. 4. 



The shell is fusiform, its great'^st diameter contained 2.8 times in 

 the length ; tliin, bluisli wliite, the ends pale oclire colored for a 

 distance of 4 or 5 mm.; glossy, under tiie lens showing distinct very 

 fine longitudinal striation, and about 6 obh'que, low and well sepa- 

 rated spiral cords at the lower end, one or two more than this at the 

 summit. The rest of the surface has a microscopic spiral striation, 

 60 minute as to be hardly noticeable except under the com[)Ound 

 microscope. The (wo ends are al)out equally produced, pointed. 

 Outer lip tliickened outside and within, retracted at both ends, very 

 indistinctly angular near the lower end, columella stiaight and 

 simple. Near the summit there is a low, indistinct spiral swelling 

 very obliquely encircling the axis. Length 28, diam. 10 mm. 



Province of Tosa, Japan, Y. Hirase. 



Tliis species is longer and less swollen than 0. soiverhymia Wein- 

 kauft (= Onilam spelta Sowb., Tiies. p. 480, pi. 100, f. 03, 04, not 

 of Linne). It is decidedly more inflatt'd than 0. carpenfer> Dkr. 

 The axial fold above is quite weak in 0. liirasei, and the coloration 

 is characteristic. 



OvuLA NiproxExsis, n. sp. Plate 7, fig. 9. 



The shell is oval, angular at the ends, glossy, bright flesh-pink 

 gradually becoming paler towards the lip; ver}' indistinctly 4- 

 banded with brown, maculate with brown on the back and behind 



