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ON A LAND-SHELL FROM THE NEW HEBRIDES. [Jan. 20, 



Fig. 4. 



Bulvminus stoked. 



5. BuLiMiNus (Ena) carpathios, n. sp. 



Char. Differt a prcBcedente t. fere perforato-rimata, oblongo- 

 turrita, corneo-lutea, hie illic fnsculo strigaia, spira convexo- 

 turrita, anfr. 7 distincte convexioribus, celerius accrescentibus, 



Fig. .5. 



Bulhninus carjiathms. 



sutura wagis impressa disjunctls, rvgulosc-strintis, sfriis muJto 

 distinctioribus, apert. magis obliqua, late acuminato-ovnta, perist. 

 simplici, acvio, non labiato, margine colnmellari pi-ope rimam 

 rejiexo, perforationem semitegente. 

 Alt. 14, diam. min. 4\, maj. 5| mm. ; alt. apert. 5, lat. apert. 

 3i mm. 



Hab. Karpatho insulam. 



Obs. Affinis etiam Bid. (Ence) suhlili, lissm., Cattaroensi, sed t. 

 magis coiiico-turritanec fusiformi-turrita et apert. nullomodo labiata. 



5. On a new Land-Shell from the New Hebrides. 

 By John H. Thomson, C.M.Z.S. 



[Eeeeived December 5, 1884.] 



A shell, of which I can find no published description, was sent me 

 in a package of rare shells collected on the island of Vate, New 

 Hebrides, by Edgar Leopold Layard, Esq., F.Z.S., H.B.M. Consul at 

 Noumea, New Caledonia. Its appearance is at first strikingly similar 

 to that of the North-American Hyalina arborea, Say, except as regards 



