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possible to say whether it will be now found. I have, however, 

 requested Mr. Henn kindly to obtain me some more shingle 

 from the same source, and it is to be hoped that other much 

 better specimens of this beautiful addition to the genus will 

 reward the searcher. 



Solarium (Torinia) enoshimense sp. nov. (PI. ii, fig. 12). 



S. testa depresso-discoidea, solida, profunde umbilicata, fusco- 

 castiiTiea, aiifradibus quatuor, spiraliter sulcatis, papillis 

 ?iioniIiformibiis, regulariter transverswi decora t is, apud 

 sitturas depressfs, ultimo anfractu rapide accrescenti, ad peri- 

 pheriam tribus costis creimlato-carinatis, ad iinibilicum 

 pulchre cremtlato, apertura circulari, labro simplici. 



Long.: 2.50 w///., sp. majoris. 



Lat.: 5 ;;////. 



Hab. : Eiioshinia, Japonia. 



Shell flattened, pale-brown chestnut, moderately and deeply 

 umbilicated, whorls four (the last very rapidly increasing, with 

 spiral channels of unequal breadth covering the whole surface, 

 forming regular rows of moniliform papillae. At the periphery 

 these spiral channels have a very boldly defined semblance of 

 angularity, the concentric spaces below the sutures are double 

 the width of the three intervening spaces between them and the 

 periphery. At the base, the crenulations round tlie umbilicus 

 are boldly defined, and the next concentric space is twice the 

 breadth of those, in their turn, intervening between this and the 

 angle of the periphery — four in all. 



Of this small species, obtained in a native box of Japanese 

 shells sent direct, and which contained several novelties, I have 

 two specimens precisely similar, and in one of the drawers of 

 the national collection at the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, have found two or three others, unnamed, labelled 

 'Japan.' 



