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spire obtuse, suture narrow, not excavated; whorls 5, last whorl 
inflated at the base, and excavated round the perforation ; . peri- 
stome simple, thin, columellar margin dilated at its insertion. 
Diam., greatest 0-12, least 0°10; height 0-10 of an inch. 
Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides; found under leaves near the sea 
(Brazier). 
12. Hewix PATESCENS. 
Shell imperforate, globosely depressed, thin, transparent, pale 
straw-coloured, shining, finely rugosely striated; spire conically 
raised; whorls 32 to 4, the last rapidly increasing, much inflated at 
the base, and banded with a faint broad brown band; aperture 
oblique ; peristome simple, thin, rounded. 
Diam., greatest 0°16, least 0°12; height 0°12 of an inch. 
Hab. Norfolk Island, under leaves in damp places (Brazier). 
13. Hewix DEPSTA. 
Deeply, rather widely, and openly umbilicated, discoid, thin, light 
yellowish brown; spire almost flat, suture well defined ; whorls 43, 
roughly arcuately striated above, much smoother below, slowly in- 
creasing in size, the last very slightly angled and a little depressed 
at its termination ; aperture oblique, lunately rounded ; peristome 
simple, not thickened, columellar margin not expanded. 
Diam., greatest 0°23, least 0°19; height 0-13 of an inch. 
Hab. Norfolk Island; under leaves in damp places (Brazier). 
14. Hex RETARDATA. 
Shell deeply, openly, but narrowly umbilicated, thin, transparent, 
hyaline, pale horn-colour ; apex of spire raised ; whorls 5, gradually 
increasing, last not depressed, smooth and unsculptured ; peristome 
lunately rounded, columellar margin a little dilated and reflected. 
Diam., greatest 0°16, least 0°12; height 0-12 of an inch. 
Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides; found under dead leaves near to 
the sea-shore (Brazier). 
15. DrrPLOMMATINA WISEMANI. 
Shell sinistral, callously rimate, elongately oval, pupiform, light 
yellowish brown ; apex acute ; whorls 5, very finely obliquely, closely, 
and regularly costulate, third and fourth becoming rapidly tumidly 
enlarged, last contracted and subascendent ; aperture subcircular, 
much expanded, thick, shining, and porcellaneous; margins joined 
by a thick expanded callus. 
Breadth 0°05, height 0°11 of an inch. 
Hab. Wanga, San Christoval, Solomon Isles (Brazier); found on 
the mountains, in damp places, under leaves. 
Named, by Mr. Brazier’s request, after Commodore Wiseman. 
16. DiIpLOMMATINA BRAZIERI. 
Shell rimate, cylindrically acuminate, of a dull white colour ; spire 
