134 lUK NAUTILUS. 



tcrmiiijited. The Imiit will have to be kept up, else it will soon be- 

 come as abundant as ever. Robt. E. C. Stearns. 

 Los Angehs, FeVy 24, 1903. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW JAPANESE LAND SHELLS. 



av II. A. IMI.SBUY AND Y. HIRASE. 



Chloritis tosnniis n. sp. 



Shell umbilicate, depressed, the spire but slightly convex, very 

 thin, uniform brown. Surface slightly glossy, closely set with short 

 hairs arranged in regular oblique rows. Whorls 4|, very convex, 

 separated by a deeply excavated suture, the last whorl rounded peri- 

 pherally and beneath. Aperture slightly oblique, rounded-lunate; 

 peristome thin, acute and not expanded except at the columellar in- 

 sertion, where it is widely dilated, partly covering the umbilicus. 

 Alt. 10, diam. 17.5 mm. 



Shinjo-mura, Tosa. Type no. 84415. A. N. S. P., from no. 

 1015 of Mr. Hirase's collection. 



This species is the first Chloritis found in Shikoku. It is very 

 like C. perpunctatus, but about twice the size. In G. fragilis the 

 hairs are much more widely spaced. C. hirasei is far more widely 

 •umbilicate. 



Eulota {Cceloi-us) cavitectum n. sp. 



The shell resembles E. caviconus, but is larger, not quite so high, 

 the umbilicus contracting more rapidly within. Brown ; covered 

 with oblique cuticular threads and small scales, the scales predomi- 

 nating on the last whorl and base. AVhorls 6^, slightly convex, the 

 last strongly carinate at the periphery, a little convex beneath, de- 

 scending rather deeply below the keel in front. The aperture is 

 nearly horizontal, transversely oval. The peristome is brown, thin, 

 the upper margin not expanded, lower margin reflexed, bearing a 

 ■white tubercle on the inner margin. Alt. 5, diam. 10 mm. 



Kochi, Tosa. Type no. 84416. A. N. S. P., from no. 1033 of 

 Mr. Hirase's collection. 



E. cavieonus of western Kyushu is smaller, has more whorls, a 

 \well-like umbilicus, and finer sculpture, the cuticle of E. cavitectum 



