AUSTRALIAN LAND SHELLS. 73 



white, slightly expanded and reflected, but not quite covering the 



umbilical orifice. 

 Length 0-77 ; breadth 0'40 ; aperture O40 long ; O30 broad, of an inch. 

 Habitat. Burnett River, Queensland, on the tops of trees. Bidwill. 

 The only gaily painted Australian Bulimics known. Notwithstanding 



habit, mode of colouration, and geographical remoteness, it ought, I 



think, to come next to B. Kingi. 



180. Bulimus Baconi. Benson. 



Benson, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII., p. 99, 1854. 



Shell perforate, ovate, thin, closely striated, the upper portion of the 

 whorls somewhat granulated from spiral strife, silky, pellucid, 

 yellowish, with two chestnut bands ; spire very slightly convexly- 

 conical, apex obtuse, papillary ; whorls 5, slightly convex, crenu- 

 lated at the suture, last inflated, scarcely exceeding the spire in 

 length ; aperture hardly oblique, oval, within coloured as without, 

 but paler ; peristome simple, straight, right margin above somewhat 

 spreading and turned up, columellar margin brownish violet, above 

 dilated and reflected. 



Length - 94; breadth 1*55 ; aperture 0"53 long ; 0*31 broad, of an inch. 



Habitat. Darling Range, TV. Australia. Bacon. 



The preceding description has been taken, verbatim, from that of 

 Pfeiffer, in Mon. JLel. Viv., Vol. IV, p. 479. Benson remarks that 

 in its transverse bands and colouring this shell differs from all the 

 W. Australian species, and inclines to the Tasmanian B. Dufresni. 



181. Bulimus indutus. MenJcc. Plate XIII. Fig. 10. 

 Menke, Moll. Nov. Roll. Spec, p. 6, 1843. 



Shell perforate, oblong and acutely ovate, solid, rather shining, 

 longitudinally striated, and under the lens rugose above, white 

 under a reddish-yellow epidermis ; spire obtuse at the apex, suture 

 crenulated ; whorls 5, very slightly convex, last equalling the spire ; 

 aperture elliptically-ovate, white within ; peristome simple, acute ; 

 columella thickened above and slightly dilated, whitish or flesh 

 coloured. 



Length 1*50 ; breadth 0-70 ; aperture 0-75 long ; 0-50 broad, of an inch. 



Habitat. Darling Range and Mount Eliza, TV. Australia. Priess. 

 Perth, TV. Australia. Bacon. 



In my collection there are two specimens of a shell from Mr. Cuming, 

 marked li B. rhodostoma," Western Australia. As these agree with 

 the original description of B. indutus of Menke, and that of Pfeiffer, 

 Mon. Hel. Viv., I have made out the above description by collating 

 from all three sources. At the same time it appears to me highly 

 probable that the two are specifically identical ; the markings, and 

 colour of the mouth within, are not good points of difference, unless 

 confirmed by others, and Gray's name has the priority. 



182. Bulimus bulla. Menke. 



Menke, Moll. Nov. Holl. Spec, p. 7, 1843. 

 Shell perforate, elbiptically-ovate, rather solid, longitudinally striated, 

 white under a thin greenish-yellow epidermis, with brown ribbons 



