304 PARTULA, NEW GUINEA. 



of growth, at the intersection the former are sometimes dis- 

 torted by the latter ; spire slender, elongate, a quarter of total 

 length ; apex dome-shaped ; half of the first whorl embryonic ; 

 suture impressed ; umbilicus small, deep, compressed ; aperture 

 roundly ovate, scarcely oblique, lip moderately reflected and 

 expanded, margins of the peristome connected by a thick 

 callus. Length 19, breadth 10, length of aperture 9, 'breadth 



6 mm. ; length 17, 'breadth 10, length of aperture 9, breadth 



7 mm. 



"On the ground under bushes upon Samarai Island I col- 

 lected two dead shells of this species. Type in Queensland 

 Museum." (Hedley.) 



Partula occidentalis HEDLEY, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 VI, 1891, p. 98, pi. 12, f. 31 (1892). 



' ' The two Partulae described by Lesson have, as Tapparone 

 remarks, a doubtful claim to Papuan soil, and, omitting these, 

 the above species is the first described from New Guinea 

 proper." (Hedley.} 



Samarai is a small island lying off the eastern extremity 

 of New Guinea. 



99. P. GRISEA Lesson. PI. 37, figs. 1, 2, 3. 



This species is more lengthened and thinner than any other 

 known to me. The penultimate whorl is longer than in the 

 species already mentioned [P. otaheitana, rufd, lineata, lutea] . 

 The last whorl, finally, is but little dilated, little swollen. 

 The aperture is directed to the right. It is higher than wide, 

 with the peristome thick, a little dilated in front of the um- 

 bilical chink. The surface of the shell is very finely striate 

 longitudinally and transversely, hence covered with a fine 

 and granulose network. The aperture is white. All the 

 rest is uniform light gray. Length 8, diam. 3!/o lines 

 (Lesson). 



New Guinea (Lesson). 



Partula grisea LESSON, Voyage autour du Monde, La 

 Coquille, ii, pi. 1, p. 325, pi. 13, f. 11. PFR., Monogr. iii, 

 450. ALBERS, Malak. Bl. iv, 1857, p. 99, new diagnosis. 



