AUSTRALIAN LAND SHELLS. 81 



198. Pupa Moretonensis. Cox. Plato XIV. Fig. 21, 21 a. 

 much magnified. Australian Museum. 



Shell small, dextral, sub-perforate, ovate, faintly obliquely striated, 

 yellowish-horny, apex obtuse ; whorls \\, rounded, the last equalling 

 more than half the length of the shell; suture deep and broad; 

 aperture squarely-oval, longer than broad, having four teetli (plicae) 

 1 large and bifid, placed closely together, each pointed, the points 

 divergent, situated in the centre of the aperture on the body whorl ; 

 a 2nd, longer and thicker, directly opposite to the bifid one ; a 3rd 

 near the columella, midway between the other two, short and 

 pointed, thickened at and about its base ; a -1th less prominent, and 

 directly opposite to the last, the whole dividing the aperture into 

 4 equal parts ; peristome thickened, broadly and irregularly ex- 

 jmnded, smooth and white, as also are the teeth ; margins joined by 

 a broad thick callus, continuous with the peristome. 



Diameter 06 ; length 0-11 of an inch. 



Habitat. Moreton Bay, Queensland. Masters. 



Genus 



BALE A. Prideaux. 



Shell turreted, conical, or clavate, slender, usually sinis- 

 tral, many whorled ; aperture semi-oval, or slightly pyri- 

 formed ; peristome acute, expanded, margins unequal ; 

 wall of the aperture with one slight plait ; columella 

 simple or transversely plicate ; jaw not contracted. 



Animal like Helix ; teeth 20*20; rows 130, Thomson; 

 mandibles finely striated, not rostrate. 



XXXVIII. SECTION TEMESA. Pfr. Vers. p. 179. 



* B. Australis. 



197. Balea Australis. Forbes. Plate XII. Fig. 16 natural size, 

 16 a. magnified. M.C. 



Forbes, Voy. of Rattlesnake, Vol. II., p. 380. Moll PL II. Pig. 9. 



Shell perforated, dextral, cylinclrically turreted, decollated, rather thin, 

 with close, prominent, raised riblets along the line of growth, dead 

 white, covered with a yellowish epidermis; whorls 11, rather 

 flattened, last sub-angular beneath the middle ; aperture nearly 

 vertical, angularly ovate, and sharply angled above and below, con- 

 stricted above the middle, within fleshy brown, shining ; peristome 

 continuous, thickened, expanded, right margin above slightly im- 



