OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 25 



23, — LlOTIA MURICATA. 



Delpkinula muricafa, Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1843, p. 142. 



„ „ „ Conch. Icon., pi. 4, sp. 18. 



Hab. Darnley Island, Torres Straits, 25 fathoms, sand bottom. 



Description of Three New Species of Shells, from Australia and 



New Guinea. 



By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., Corr. Mem. Roy. Soc, Tas. 



1. — Helix (Hydra) Broadbbnti. 



Shell umbilicated, globular, rather solid, irregularly obliquely 

 striated, chestnut-brown, ornamented with a yellow-brown band 

 below the suture, and a broad one on the base ; apex conoid, nearly 

 all of a yellow-brown, whorls 4|, rather convex, the last some- 

 what inflated, convex below, aperture ovately lunate, diagonal, 

 purplish within, peristome expanded and reflected, thickened, 

 white, the columellar broadly expanded and reflected, covering 

 about one fourth of the umbilicus, which is wide and deep, 

 encircled at its edge with a broad band of chestnut-brown. 



Diam. maj. 21J, min. 16J, alt. 15J lines. 



Hab. Port Moresby, New Guinea (Collection, Mrs. Charles 

 Coxen.) 



This fine shell I have named' after its discoverer, Mr. Kendal 

 Broadbent, who obtained it 12 miles inland from Port Moresby. 

 When at Yule Island I was shown a specimen obtained by Mr. 

 D'Albertis, up one of the rivers at Hall Sound. There are, I 

 believe, specimens in the Australian Museum, received from Mr. 

 Broadbent. 



Helix (Calliochlias) Etherldgei. 



Shell imperforate, rather thick, somewhat globosely turbinated, 

 finely striated, having minute transverse lengthened grains, 

 blackish chestnut, ornamented at the periphery with one narrow 

 white line, contiguous to the suture, broad yellow-brown band 

 above, running spirally to the apex, the third encircling the 



