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lunate ; peristome thin, simple, columellar margin a little dilated 
above. 
Diam., greatest 0°14, least 0:12; height 0-11 of an inch. 
Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides ; found under decaying leaves near 
the sea-shore (Brazier). 
7. Hewrx sororia. 
Shell imperforate, depressedly globose, thin, smooth, shining, 
throughout light olive-yellow; spire slightly elevated; whorls 5, 
moderately convex, slowly increasing in size, last not descending in 
front, base rounded, narrowly margined at the suture; aperture 
ovately rounded ; peristome simple, columellar margin only slightly 
dilated. 
Diam., greatest 0°15, least 0°13 ; height 0-09 of an inch. 
Hab. Ovalau, Fiji Islands ; found under leaves on the mountains 
(Brazier). 
8. Heuix sANSITUs. 
Shell conical, narrowly umbilicated, regularly spirally striated, 
striz slightly raised and granular, thin, light brown; spire raised 
and pointed; whorls 6, gradually increasing, the last sharply and 
prominently keeled, flattened at the base, which is also granularly 
spirally striated ; peristome simple, thin. 
Diam., greatest 0°11, Jeast 0°10; height 0-09 of an inch. 
Hab. Vanna Lava, Banks’s Group ; found inland, under decayed 
leaves in very wet places; also found at Viti Levu, Fiji, inland, in 
similar localities (Brazier). 
9. HELIX EXAGITANS. 
Shell plano-convex, flat above, convex below, deeply and openly 
umbilicated, pale brown-yellow, upper surface irregularly finely stri- 
ated across the whorls; whorls 5, rapidly increasing, last not de- 
pressed in front, sharply keeled ; peristome simple, thin. 
Diam., greatest 0:09, least 0°06; height 0:04 of an inch. 
Hab. Norfolk Island; found in damp places in the pine-forests, 
under leaves (Brazier). 
10. Hewix TUTUILLA. 
Shell depressedly conical, imperforate, of a dull pale brown, above 
finely granular, smooth and shining below ; spire conical, obtuse ; 
whorls 5, rounded, slowly increasing in size, last not depressed, not 
keeled, base rounded ; suture broad and channelled ; peristome thin, 
roundly lunate. 
Diam., greatest 0°12, least 0°10; height 0°09 of an ineh. 
Hab. Tutuilla, Navigator’s Islands ; found in wet places, under 
leaves, near the sea (Brazier). 
11. HeLrx ANTELATA,. 
Shell depressedly conical, perforated, dull reddish brown, smooth ; 
