102 AUSTRALIAN LAND SHELLS. 



apparently of this species, is very finely striated under the lens, but 

 I cannot see any strise in full grown specimens. 



243. Pupina ventrosa. Dohrn. Plate XVI. Tig. 14 natural 

 size, 14 a., 14b. much magnified. M.C. 

 Dohrn, Pro. Zoo!, Pro., 1862, p. 183. 



Shell ovate, rather thin, polished, shining, transparent, smooth, not 

 striated, pale reddish-horny ; spire ovately-conical, slightly obtuse, 

 suture scarcely impressed, and on the two lower usually callous, and 

 sometimes with a very faint streak of red ; whorls 5, three upper- 

 most, slightly convex, lower two continuous, last viewed in front 

 much more than equalling the remainder ; aperture vertical, circular; 

 peristome slightly thickened, scarcely expanded, upper channel 

 oblique, protected by a triangular blunt plate, columellar a little 

 above the centre, with a triangular obtuse auricle, about equalling 

 the other in size. 



Length - 30; breadth 0*17; aperture - 10 broad, of an inch. 



Habitat. Endeavour River, N. E. Australia. MacGillivray. 



This shell is smaller and less elongated than P. bilinguis, and the 

 mouth is less oblique to the axis. Dohrn's locality, " Cape York," 

 is a mistake. 



244. Pupina pineticola. Cox. Plate XVI. Fig. 8 natural 

 size, 8 a., 8 b. much magnified. M.C. 

 Cox, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1866, p. 375. 



Shell fusiformly ovate or pupiform, rather solid, smooth, shining, in 

 youth very finely striated, the stria; disappearing or becoming obso- 

 lete, glassy white, or pale reddish-horny ; spire suddenly tapering, 

 obtuse, lower suture enamelled ; whorls 5, last viewed in front ex- 

 ceeding half the length of the shell, penultimate equal to last in 

 width, and equalling in length those above it ; aperture circular, 

 slightly oblique ; peristome and auricles white or pale, thickened, 

 upper canal in a line with the apex, lamella showing in front, acute, 

 triangular, inferior canal obliquely cutting the columella near its 

 centre, with a short triangular plate above. 



Length 0"22 ; breadth (Ml ; aperture 0*06 broad, of an inch. 



Habitat. Pine Mountain, Lismore, Upper Eichmond Eiver, on the 

 ground, burrowing in dry weather. MacGillivray. 



The nearest allied species is P. Pfeifferi ; but this is a larger and stouter 

 shell, having the axis of the mouth more divergent, and very 

 different canals. 



245. Pupina Tliomsoni. Forbes. Plate XVI. Eig. 12, 12 a,, 

 12 b. much magnified, Museum, Eev. E. L. King. 

 Forbes, Fog. Raitlesnalce, Vol. II., p. 381. Plate III. Fig. 2. 



Shell ovate, solid, polished, shining, smooth, not striated, very pale 

 reddish-horny; spire short, obtuse, suture very slightly impressed ; 

 whorls 5 to 6, last in front longer than the remainder, penultimate 

 larger than all those above ; aperture orbicular, continuous on body 

 whorl, vertical ; peristome and auricles white, much callously 



