PARYPHANTA. 127 



Genus PARYPHANTA, AJbers, 1850. 



P. BUSBYI, Gray. PL 26, figs. 23, 24. 



Opaque, very thin, whitish, under a thick, shining, greenish 

 black epidermis, enveloping the peristome ; whorls 4^. the last 

 descending in front ; lip of aperture simple, somewhat inflected. 



Diam. 66, alt. 29 mill. 



New Zealand. 



The epidermis is so strong, that in the contraction of drying 

 on dead specimens it often breaks the shell. 



P. HOCHSTETTERT, Pfr. 



An unfigured species, about the same size as P. Busbyi, but 

 depressed, with 5^ whorls, more slowly increasing, umbilicated, 

 irregularly rugate; yellowish brown, with close undulating 

 chestnut lines on the upper part of the shell, last whorl suban- 

 gulate on the periphery, irregularly foveolate and more shining 

 below, with wider chestnut markings ; lip simple, submembrana- 



ceous in front. 



New Zealand. 

 P. GILLIESI, E. A. Smith. 



Shell umbilicated, thin, flexible, smooth and rather glossy, 

 with growth-lines, and obsolete spiral striae upon the upper 

 surface ; dark chestnut, with spiral yellowish lines varying in 

 number and width ; whorls five or six, shrunken in drying, in 

 which state the last whorl is obtusely keeled, or inflated when 

 stuffed with cotton, not united at the suture to the preceding 

 volution for some distance from the aperture ; aperture oblique, 

 without a shelly lining ; lip thin, arcuate above. 



Diam. 35, alt. 14 mill. 



Wliakmarana Mts., New Zealand. 

 Unfigured. 



P. ATRAMENTARIA, Shuttleworth. PI. 26, figs. 5, 6. 



Perforate, subdiaphanous, very dark chocolate black, above 

 lightly undulately rugulose, below smooth and very shining; 

 whorls 4, rapidly increasing, the last depressed and deflected in 

 front ; interior similarly colored or bluish, the margin flexuosely 

 produced above, invested with the shortly inflexed epidermis. 



Diam. 30, alt. 14 mill. 



Victoria, Australia. 



