/8 THlC NAUTILUS. 



ber of this journal, this was listed as G. gundlachi. Mr. Geo. H. 

 Clapp, who obtained some of Rhoads' specimens, directed my atten- 

 to its distinctness. G. gundlachi occurs at a neighboring locality, 

 Lemon City, Fla., as well as throughout the St. John's valley, and, 

 in west Florida — probably extending all over the peninsula. It was* 

 collected by Mr. Singley at Hidalgo, Texas, and is a well-known 

 West Indian and Mexican species. G. gundlachi is invariably: 

 characterized by the presence of a sculpture of very minute regular 

 and close, spiral stri«, as mentioned in the descriptions of Pfeiffer, 

 von Martens and others, and as I have confirmed in numerous speci- 

 mens from Florida, Texas, Mexico and the West Indies. 



NEW LAND SNAILS OF THE JAPANESE EMPIEE. 



BY H. A. IMLSBRY AND Y. HIRASE. 



Mulota luhuana yakushimana n. var. 



Shell small with conic spire, yellowish red-brown or bright yellow- 

 isli green, indistinctly streaked with darker or sometimes with two or 

 three bands faintly indicated; wrinkle striate with dense fine spiral 

 lines as usual. Whorls 5^, the last very deeply descending below 

 the periphery of the preceding whorl. Umbilicus very narrow and 

 rapidly contracting within. Aperture nearly horizontal, the upper 

 and lower margins subparallel ; peristome narrowly reflexed, thick- 

 ened within. 



Alt. 17.0, diam. 23, width of umbilicus 2 mm. 



Alt. 17, diam. 23, width of umbilicus 2.5 mm. 



Yakushima, Osumi. Types no. 85752 A. N. S. P., from no. 895 

 of Mr. Hirase's collection. 



This race has the small, contracted umbilicus of E. I. nesiotica, but 

 it differs in the very small size and conic spire. 



Ganesella moellendorjfiana n. sp. 



Shell openly umbilicate, depressed, with low conic spire, the base 

 concave around the moderately open umbilicus, one-tenth the diameter 

 of the shell; thin, reddish brown, with a narrow, darker band above 

 and a pale band at the periphery. Surface glossy, weakly marked 

 with growth-wrinkles and densely engraved with minute, spiral lines. 

 Whorls 6, convex, very slowly and regularly increasing, the last but 



