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Show «*00 MR. A. GARRETT ON THE TERRESTRIAL [Mar. 1, I received four examples of this singular species from the Museum Godeffroy. One specimen has the last whorl separated from the penultimate a distance of 4 millim. It may be distinguished by its depressed form, undulated whorls, and crenulated spiral lines. 3. OSTODES STRICTUS, Mousson. Ostodes strictus, Mousson, MS., Museum Godeffroy, 1885. f Shell umbilicated, depressed, turbinate, solid, rugose, decorticated, cinereous, sometimes with a ruddy tinge on the last whorl ; spire depressedly conoid, apex exserted ; suture impressed ; whorls 5, convex, transversely rugosely wrinkled, closely lineated with spiral elevated lines, becoming evanescent on the rounded body-whorl; umbilicus wide, freely exhibiting all the whorls, spirally lineated with raised lines, and the margins slightly angulated; aperture oblique, subcircular; peristome straight, simple, nearly continuous, briefly joined to the body-whorl. Major diam. 13, height 7 millim. Vatu Lale. Three examples received from the Godeffroy Museum. It is very closely related to Gould's 0. strigatus, a Samoa species, and, excepting in size, can scarcely be distinguished from the New-Caledonian O. bocageanus. Genus PUPINA, Vignard. 1. P U P I N A VITIENSIS, Garrett. Pupina vitiensis, Garrett, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1873, p. 233, pl. 3. fig. 6 2; Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeff. vi. pp. 83, 104. A somewhat rare species, found beneath damp decaying leaves at Gomea Island. Mr. Liardet records a species of Pupina as occurring on Taviuni, which is probably the same as the Gomea shell. Schmeltz erroneously assigns it to Kandavu. A brilliant, highly polished, oblong, whitish corneous species, with slightly swollen spire, the left side more convex than the right, and the columella with a tongue-like projection forming a deep notch. An obtuse plait on the upper part of the parietal wall. Length 7 millim. Genus OMPHALOTROPIS, Pfeiffer. 1. O M P H A L O T R O P I S M O U S S O N I , Pease. Omphalotropis ovata, Mousson (not of Pease), Journ. de Conch. 1865, p. 198, pl. 14. fig. 10 ; Paetel, Cat. Conch, p. 124 ; Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeff. iv. p. 7H. Omphalotropis moussoni, Pease, Journ. de Conch. 1869, p. 147; Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeff. v. p. 101. Llealia (Omphalotropis) moussoni, Mousson, Journ. de Conch. 1870, p. 194, 1871, p. 27; Pfeiffer, Mon. Pneum. iv. p. 224. I found a few examples of this species at Vanua Balavo, where Dr. Graffe discovered the type specimens. The Doctor subsequently found it on Viti Levu, Ticombia, and at Tongatabu, one of |