52 THE NAtlTILUS. 



laiitic in relatively deep water. A second species from the Santa 

 Barbara Cliannel, California, has lately reached me. 



Metzgeria calif ornica n. sp. 



Shell small, translucent white, with a pale straw-colored, dull, 

 wrinkled and rather conspicuous periostracum ; nucleus small, 

 smootli, white, obliquely inclined, of nearly two whorls; there are 

 four or tive rounded subsequent whorls separated by a deep, not 

 channelled, suture ; sculpture of about nine rather prominent, 

 rounded axifil ribs extending from suture to suture and on the last 

 whorl to the base, separated by wider interspaces and crossed by 

 numerous subequal spiral threads, covering the whole shell, their 

 wider interspaces striated by the incremental lines. Aperture about 

 half as long as the shell, the outer lip sharp, the throat smooth and 

 white ; the pillar white, not callous, with three distinct, oblique plaits 

 beside the slightly raised margin of the canal, these are only visible 

 from the side of the aperture ; anteriorly the pillar is tortuous, 

 slightly recurved, open and rather wide. Length of shell 14, of 

 aperture 7 ; width of shell G mm. 



This species is easily discriminated from M. pusilla by its deeper 

 sutures and more convex whorls, and by having a more tortuous 

 pillar with three or four distinct oblique plaits instead of only two. 

 On a direct view, at right angles to the plane of the aperture, the 

 plaits are invisible, but are perfectly distinct from a point more 

 laterally situated. The operculum is elongate-quadrate with apical 

 nucleus. The shell, with other specimens from the same locality, 

 was sent to the National Museum by J. H. Paine. 



NOTICES OF NEW LAND SHELLS OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE. 



BY H. A. PILSBRY AND Y. HIRASE. 



Eulota (^Etihadi'o) qucesita var. decorata n. v. 



Smaller than qucesita, and much more coarsely sculptured with 

 irregularly spaced, fold-like striaj, which are well raised and in part 

 light yellow ; tlie ground-color of the shell being either that of 

 quoRsita or of the form ferryi, the types being of the dark pattern. 



Alt. 22, diam. 35 mm. (Okuki). 



Alt. 18.5, diam. 28 mm. (Chojamura). 



