PARTULA, NEW IRELAND, ETC. 299 



little inflated. The aperture is produced obliquely towards 

 the right, and is ovate ; peristome wide, but little thickened 

 and white. The columellar margin is dilated at its base and 

 the umbilicus forms an oblique chink. The shell, very finely 

 striated in both directions, is of a uniform yellowish color. 

 Length 9, diam. 3y 2 lines " (Q. et G.) . 



New Ireland: Port Carteret (Astrolabe). New Hanover, 

 Nordhafen, under stones (Gazelle exped.). 



Helix carteriensis Q. et G., Voyage de 1'Astrolabe, Zoologie 

 ii, p. 117, pi. 9, f. 10, 11 (1832). Bulimus c., DESK., Anim. 

 s. Vert, viii, p. 283. Partula c., PFR., Monogr. iii, 460. 

 v. MARTENS, Monatsberichte der K. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. 

 Berlin, 1877, p. 279. Not Partula carteretensis REEVE, Conch. 

 Icon, vi, pi. 4, f. 13 (1850)== P. attenuata. ? Sterope car- 

 terensis HARTMAN, Oatal. genus Partula Fer., 1881, p. 14, 

 figure. 



A slender, acute pale species, of which I give the original 

 description and figures (pi. 36, figs. 17, 18). These, if ac- 

 curately drawn, indicate a shell with longer spire than any I 

 have seen. Port Carteret examples before me received from 

 Cuming (pi. 36, figs. 15, 16) are nearly white with the spire 

 pale flesh-colored. The surface is glossy, with sculpture of 

 growth-wrinkles and extremely fine and close engraved spirals. 

 Above the periphery of the last whorl these spiral lines be- 

 come faint, more or less obsolete. The apex is rather pointed. 

 The last half of the last whorl is compressed laterally, the 

 base saccate. The aperture is vertical, ovate ; the lip narrowly 

 reflexed and thickened within, thin near the posterior angle, 

 the outer margin slightly sinuous. The umbilical chink is 

 rather small. 



Length 17^, diam. 8y 2 , aperture 9x6 mm. ; whorls 5. 



Length 16, diam. 8%, aperture 8% x 6 mm. ; whorls 4 1 /. 



It differs from P. coxi, kubaryi etc. by the more delicate, 

 more minute and crowded spiral lines of the penultimate 

 whorl and base. 



93. P. KUBARYI Hartman. PI. 36, figs. 7, 8. 



The shell is ovate-conic, rather thin, openly rimate and 



