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of 11.0 lip which latter is verv broad, dattoned and cons|.ic..ously sim.ous above. 
The columella ia n.or,- or leas gibbous. Color yellowish corneous, very rarely fulvous 
or fascia ted. 
Had Keeve alluded to a parietal tooth in his description and figure of sohdola, 
I would not have hesitated to refer compacta to that species. 
P. CL.vRA, Pease. Plate III, fig. 75. 
Partula clara, Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 671 ; 1871, p. 473. Pfeifter, Mon. Hel., vi, 
p. 159. (Pasilliea) Hartman, Cat. Partula, p. 11; Obs. Gen. Partula, Bui. Mus. Com. 
Zool., p. 181, vol. ix. 
A rare specie.s, found on foliage in the upper portions of the valh;ys in the south- 
west part of Tahiti. Like P. annectens, of Huaheine, and J\ furgida, of Raiatea, it is 
gradually becoming extinct. 
It is a small species (16 mill.), corneous, sometimes with darker stripes, and more 
rarely with one or two transverse chestnut bands. The aperture is always (‘dentate. 
P. G.^RRKTTir, Pease. Plate III, fig. 48. 
Partula Oarrellii, Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 672; 1871, p. 473. Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel., 
vi, p. 158. Sehmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeff., v, p. 207. {Helena) Hartman, Cat. Part., p. 10; 
Obs. Gen. Part., Bui. Mus. Com. Zool., ix, p. 182. 
Partula gonocheila, Sehmeltz (not of Pfeiffer), Cat. Mus. Godeff., v, p. 92. 
The sjK'cific centre of this small and Avell-marked species is Vaioara, on the west 
coast of Raiatea, where it exists in prodigious numbers on bushes. It has spread 
1101 th and south of its metropolis, and in the former direction has .slightly overlapped 
the .soiitliern range of P. Thalia, and hybrids between the two species ar(‘ (piite 
common. 'I’o the southward it ranges about one mile, where it extends a short 
distance up a valley which is the home of P. cifrina. 
Its princijial characters are its small size, contracted aperture, rounckKl or an<ni- 
lated peristome and nodulous columella, which latter is, as it were, pushed in towards 
the aperture. Tlie parietal region is very rarelv toothed. It is wliitish or pale 
yellow,* hom-color, „.rely fulvous oi- light browu, and sometimes the apex is purple- 
brown. A variety with a brown base and sutural band is not infrequent. 
P. 
TURiiiDA, Pease. Plate III, flg. 74. 
Bulimus turgidus, Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Ad, p. 12. ’’ 
Partula turgida {Echo), Hartman, Cat. Part, 
ix, p. 188. ’ 
1864, p. 670; 1871, 473. Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel., 
p. 12; Obs. Gen. Part., Bui. Mus. Com. Zool., 
Tlioiigh widely diffused over Raiatea, it is nevertheless excessively rare It is 
nearest „meV;:eies 
ke p. rla a and P annecteas, it appears to be gradually becomiim extinct 
It does not inhabit “ Tahiti,” as stated by Pease. " 
