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Show 1878.] ON LAND-SHELLS FROM JAPAN AND BORNEO. 495 middle of costa, an oblique dash followed by a triangular spot near apex, and a submarginal stripe, with zigzag inner edge dark chocolate- brown ; outer border and fringe pale brown, traversed by two straight dusky lines; a minute brown spot at middle of inner margin : base and sides of palpi chocolate-brown. Below silvery white; the costal area of primaries pale brownish. Expanse 11 millimetres. Like A. insons of Felder, but only half as large ; also allied to A. chrysogyrans, Walker (MS. ?). 150. CYDOSIA NOBILITELLA, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 264. fig. G (1782). 151. TINEA?, sp. This insect has lost all the fringes of its wings, so that I cannot recognize its genus. The neuration of the secondaries seems to be exactly that of Tinea ; but the head is too broad, and the palpi are too long and robust; in coloration and the general form of its wings it is most like Cerostoma vittella. 152. PTEROPHORUS ASPILODACTYLUS, Walker, Lep. Het. xxx. p. 941. n. 43 (1864). 5. Descriptions of new Land-Shells from Japan and Borneo. By EDGAR A. SMITH, F.Z.S. [Received April 15, 1878.] HELIX (CAMENA) LEWISII. Testa dextrorsa, conoideo-globosa, subanguste umbilicata, oblique striata, alba, epidermide tenui luteo-olivacea induta, fascia angusta fusca ad peripheriam picta; anfract. 6|, convexiusculi, sensim crescentes, ultimus rotundatus, antice breviter descendens ; apertura obliqua, intus alba; perist. undique expansum, margine columellari sordido-roseo tincto, superne late expanso et refiexo. Diam. max. 35 mill., min. 29 ; alt. 24. Hab. Japan (George Lewis). Perhaps the most closely allied Japanese species to this one is H. miranda, A. Adams. From it H. lewisii differs in having a more conical spire, a narrower umbilicus, finer oblique striae, and no spiral sculpture. The oblique striae at the suture are rather deeply incised and more crowded than on the other parts of the whorls, many of them extending only about a line from the suture and then gradually fading away. The first four whorls differ from the last two in being obliquely punctato-striate, instead of exhibiting an ordinary striation. The brown band is situated a very little above the middle of the body-whorl, and passing just above its suture, is visible on two |
