HELTX-PAPUINA. 57 



ill the same year, the name naso has about a month priority over 

 tapparonei. 



H. RHYNCHONELLA Tapparone Canefri. Unfigured. 



Imperforate, thin, depressed-trochiform, carinated, obsoletely 

 longitudinally striated and obliquely spirally roughened ; shining, 

 violaceous above, buff beneath, painted all over with brownish- 

 purple flames and spots disposed in bands. Spire couoidal, apex 

 brown, whorls 5 ?, the upper ones plane, the last whorl large, some- 

 what convex, at the periphery acutely carinated, at the carina sub- 

 excavated ; base convex, with narrow spiral bands of brownish- 

 purple. Aperture very oblique, produced into a beak, wider than 

 high, the throat pale-rose ; peristome blackish-purple, moderately 

 reflexed, the upper margin deeply sinuated forward, basal margin 

 sub-angulated in the middle, columellar margin sub-dilated. 



Alt. 18, greater diam. 32, lesser 24 mill. Aperture, width 19, 

 alt. 12 mill. (Tapp. Can.) 



Ansus, Island of Jobi, New Guinea. 



H. rhynehonella TAPP. CAN., Annali Mus, Civ. Genov. xxiv, (2d. 

 Ser. iv), p. 134, 1887. 



Has much resemblance to H. tayloriana, but is larger, the in- 

 flection of the upper lip more marked, and the coloration different. 



H. HERO Smith. Unfigured. 



Shell rimate, depressed-trochiform, rather thin, acutely carinated 

 in the middle ; whitish, ornamented above with oblique, opaque 

 buffish subzigzag lines, below with a few concentric brown and 

 opaque buff zones. Whorls 4^, the upper a little convex, closely 

 spirally striate and having oblique lines of growth, the last whorl 

 less convex, similarly striated, but minutely rugose forward, shortly 

 descending, lightly depressed before the middle of the lip, at the 

 periphery having an acute, buff carina, beneath radiately and con- 

 centrically subrugosely striated. Aperture very oblique, subrostrate, 

 colored the same inside as out ; peristome white or pale lilac above, 

 upper margin lightly reflexed, depressed in the middle, lower mar- 

 gin widely expanded, white, dilated above the umbilicus, nearly 

 closing the rimation. Alt. 16J, greater diam. 28, lesser 22 mill. 

 (Smith.) 



Neiv Guinea. 



H. (Papuina) hero SMITH, Ann. Mag. N. H. 6th series, vol. vii, 

 p. 45, May, 1891. 



