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Show 1870.] DR. J. C. COX ON NEW LAND SHELLS. 83 lunate ; peristome thin, simple, columellar margin a little dilated above. Diam., greatest 0*14, least 0*12 ; height 0*11 of an inch. Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides ; found under decaying leaves near the sea-shore (Brazier). 7. HELIX SORORIA. Shell imperforate, depressedly globose, thin, smooth, shining, throughout light olive-yellow; spire slightly elevated; whorls 5, moderately convex, slowly increasing in size, last not descending in front, base rounded, narrowly margined at the suture; aperture ovately rounded; peristome simple, columellar margin only slightly dilated. Diam., greatest 0*15, least 0*13 ; height 009 of an inch. Hab. Ovalau, Fiji Islands ; found under leaves on the mountains ( Brazier). 8. HELIX SANSITUS. Shell conical, narrowly umbilicated, regularly spirally striated, striae slightly raised and granular, thin, light brown ; spire raised and pointed; whorls 6, gradually increasing, the last sharply and prominently keeled, flattened at the base, which is also granularlv spirally striated ; peristome simple, thin. Diam., greatest 0*11, least 0*10 ; height 0-09 of an inch. Hab. Vanna Lava, Banks's Group ; found inland, under decayed leaves in very wet places ; also found at Viti Levu, Fiji, inland, in similar localities (Brazier). 9. HELIX EXAGITANS. Shell plano-convex, flat above, convex below, deeply and openly umbilicated, pale brown-yellow, upper surface irregularly finely striated across the whorls; whorls 5, rapidly increasing, last not depressed in front, sharply keeled ; peristome simple, thin. Diam., greatest 009, least 0*06 ; height 004 of an inch. Hab. Norfolk Island; found in damp places in the pine-forests, under leaves (Brazier). 10. HELIX TUTUILL^E. Shell depressedly conical, imperforate, of a dull pale brown, above finely granular, smooth and shining below ; spire conical, obtuse; whorls 5, rounded, slowly increasing in size, last not depressed, not keeled, base rounded ; suture broad and channelled ; peristome thin, roundly lunate. Diam., greatest 0*12, least 0*10; height 009 of an ineh. Hab. Tutuilla, Navigator's Islands ; found in wet places, under leaves, near the sea (Brazier). 11. HELIX ANTELATA. Shell depressedly conical, perforated, dull reddish brown, smooth |
