64 HELIX-PAPUINA. 



front shortly and abruptly descending. Aperture oblique, sub- 

 <iuadrute : prristome white, thin, broadly expanded and reflexed, the 

 upper mar-in simiated, colurnellar margin dilated, appressed. 

 Alt. _'<>. -n-ater diam. 30-i, lesser 2H mill. (Smith.') 



South Cape, British New Guinea. 



II. (r'<ij>nin<D KoUslaua E. A. SMITH, Ann. Mag. N. H. 5th. Ser. 

 xix. p. 423, t. 15, f. 3, 1887. 



II. mMRiEi Angas. PI. 17, figs. 37, 38. 



Shell i in perforate, conically semi-globose, rather solid, rugosely 

 spirally grooved, and obliquely finely striated, opaque, whitish ; 

 spire conoidal, obtuse ; whorls 4*, rather convex, the last descending, 

 subangulated at the periphery, somewhat flattened at the base, and a 

 little excavated behind the aperture ; aperture diagonal, oval-oblong, 

 pale brown within, peristome white, margins converging, united by 

 a thin callus, right margin sinuous, rather expanded and reflexed, 

 columellar margin dilated and appressed. (Adams & Angas.} 



Ah. 20, greater diam. 27, lesser 21 mill. 



Shores of Huon Gulf, Eastern New Guinea. 



H. comriei ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 489, t. 47, f. 4, 5. TAPP. 

 ( 'AN., Ann. Mus. Civ. (lenov. xix, p. 155, (transl. of desc.) 



(11.) GROUP OF H. EDDYSTONENSIS. 



U'Hit'ifi'-ate ; low-trochiform, the base convex; outer lip expanded, 

 basal lip reflexed, expanded at the insertion and partly concealing 

 the umbilicus; surface sculptured with fine forward- descending 

 ir r inkles. Columella often havin a callus fold or obtuse tooth. 



II. iiDDvsToNKNsis Reeve. PI. 10, figs. 79, 80. 



Umbilicate; low-trochiform, solid, angulated or sub-carinate at 

 tin periphery. Surface striatulate and closely sculptured with fine 

 forward-descending wrinkles, becoming concentric on the base. 

 Spire low-conic, apex obtuse ; earlier whorls ivhitish-corneous ; 

 whorl>f>, somewhat convex, the last not descending in front, obtusely 

 keeled at the circumference. Color opaque buff, with a lighter peri- 

 pheral /one having a brown band above and below it, and often a 

 few othi-r obscure bands both above and beneath. 



A pei-tun- oblique, within showing the white and dark bands and 

 niewhat -treaked with brown. Peristome white (often tinted 



