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Show 100 MR. E. A. LIARDET ON FIJIAN LAND-SHELLS. [Jan. 18, and highly polished; whorls 5, convex; spire obtuse; suture impressed; aperture nearly vertical, roundly lunate; columella short, excavated, white, with a callous cL~rved tooth near the base. Animal very active. I observed it on one occasion, when interrupted in progression, lift its tail high, as in figure 1 a, and shake it vigorously. Hab. Islands of Taviuni and Gamia, Fiji. Rare. (ColI. Liardet.) 2. NAN INA ? VITRININA, sp. nov. (Plate V. figs. 2,2 a.) Shell yellow, thin, translucent, perforated, discoidal; whorls 4i, last subangulated, the others slightly convex; beneath shining and well rounded; aperture slightly oblique, lunate; sutu:e marginate; peristome thin; columellar lip slightly expanded over perforation. Animal black, with mantle covering two thirds of the shell, which it cannot enter at first. Found in moist situations under logs, in this respect resembling Vitrina. (Coll. Liardet.) 3. NANINA? RAMSAYI, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 3.) Shell similar to N. ? vitrinina. When the animal is out I can dctect no difference. Animal red; a protuberance on the back rests against the shell anteriorly. It progresses by raising its head, extending the body, and placing the posterior part of the foot down in the form of an arch, lands its body gradually from the head; and this arch thus appears to recede until the caudal extremity is reached. Like N. ? vitrinina, it cannot at first recede into its shell; and like Vitrina 8t1'angei of Australia, it leaves mucus in its track of a brick-red colour. Hab. Taviuni, Fiji. (CoIl. Liardet.) 4. HELIX PRINCE I, sp. nov. (Plate V. figs. 4, 4 a.) Shell very small, depressed, with wide and perspective umbilicus; colour dark brown; whorls 3, prominently costated; suture deeply impressed; aperture round. Note.-This is the only Fijian shell I have seen resembling any of the Australian Relices. Hab. Taviuni, Fiji. (Coll. Liardet.) 5. HELIX PINNOCKI, sp. nov. (Plate V. figs. 5, 5 a.) Shell con~id, perfo.rate; colour a horny yellow; convex beneath; whorls ~, spIrally strIated, the last carinated, smooth beneath; aperture obl~que, roundly lunate; columellar lip slightly expanded over perforatIOn. Bab. Taviuni, l<'iji. (ColI. Liardet.) 6. HELIX BARKASI, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 6.) Shell minute, trochiform, very minutely perforated, colour golden horny; whorls 5i, convex, roughly and irregularly striated, trans- |
