586 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BULIMUS, 



flats or near rivers, and beyond the Dividing Range, it is valuable 

 for pasture, although injurious to cattle when they feed too 

 ravenously on it. It is no uncommon thing to see beasts swollen 

 to a large size and lying dead from the effects of the so-called 

 "Trefoil." The burs of this plant are also very annoying in 

 sheep-farming, as they adhere tenaciously to the fleeces and 

 render the wool less valuable. Melilotus parviflora, sometimes 

 called " Scented Trefoil," is a great pest in wheat-fields, and 

 imparts an aromatic flavour to flour. Trifolium repens, or Dutch 

 Clover is very widely spread in some parts of New South Wales, 

 and forms, as it is termed " an excellent bottom in pastures." It 

 is said that a single seedling will cover more than a yard square 

 of ground in one season, whilst the plant generally affords 

 abundance of succulent stalks and leaves when the grasses perish. 



Description of a New Bulimus from New Caledonia. 



By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



^Bulimus Rossiteri, n. sp. 



Shell imperforated, oblong-ovate, rather thick, light brown, 

 covered with a horny reddish-chestnut periostraca, longitudinally 

 somewhat rugosely striate, suture crenulated, encircled with a 

 white narrow band ; spire moderately elevated, convexly conoid, 

 obtuse, about half the length of the shell, first three whorls 

 decorticated, whorls six, moderately convex, the last large ; 

 aperture oblong ovate, subvertical, orange-red within ; peristome 

 rather thickened, more or less reflected ; columella slightly 

 expanded with a small oblique compressed fold extending over 

 on to the body whorl in a thick callus plate and joined to the 

 upper part of the aperture; peristome and columella bright 

 orange red. 



*Type specimen deposited in the Museum of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, 



