THE CONCHOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



A NEW LAND SNAIL FROM THE 

 NORTHERN ISE 



By V. HIRASE 



According to a recent report from Mr. Tajima Kanamaru, on 

 tlie 23rd of October I despatched my assistant Tokubei Kuroda to 

 make explorations in the northern parts of Ise Province for a week, 

 in order to collect a peculiar snail. For details, see his diary of the 

 journey on other pages. The new species is as follows. 



Ganesella kanamarui 1 i 1 r. 



Ganesella kanamarui Hir. n. 



sp. 



The shell quite depressed, conical with convex outline, strongly 

 angular at the periphery, openly and perspectively umbilicate, surface 

 glossy, light corneous, the periphery encircled by a narrow lighter 

 colored band and a narrow light brown band just above. Whorls 

 5 l 4» slightly convex, slowly widening, suture rather deep, the first 

 i' 4 glossy and the other sculptured with wavy coarse oblique 

 growth wrinkles and dense microscopic spiral striaj ; the last with a 

 strong round carina at the periphery, concavely narrow margined 

 above and below ; base convex, with a denser sculpture, indented 

 near the umbilical porforation. The width of the umbilicus one 

 sixth the total diameter of the shell, and with a very shallow sulcus 

 encircling the entrace of the perforation and often ending an irregural 

 wide excavation just behind the basal lip. The last whorl distinctly 

 though shortly deflexed in front, constricted behind the lip. Aper- 

 ture quite oblique, irregularly lunate-oval, lip narrowly expanded, 

 peristome thin, with a white callous within, columellar and basal 



