77*2 PAPUAN LAND AND FRESHWATER SHELLS, 



must mention also that I got from Dr. Staudinger Pvpina 

 enojih'iim, von M()ll., which, upon examination, proved not to 

 differ from Smith's Fupina nasuta (Smith, loc. cif., p. 364). 



1. SuLCOBASis LEPTOCOCHLEA, Ancey, n.sp. 



(Plate xxxvL, fig. 1.) 



Testa globosa, pro sectione tenuiuscula, pervie profundeque 

 umbilicata, brunneo-rufa, unicolor, lineis incrementi tenuibus et 

 obliquis per longitudinem sculpta et sulcis obsoletis sjDiralibus, in 

 ultimo anfractu et inferne prajsertim exarata, subnitida. Spira 

 conoidea, satis producta, apice sat minuto, obtusiusculo. Anf ractus 

 6 convexi, regulariter accrescentes, sutura impressa ; ultimus 

 magnus, rotundatus, tumidus, antice sublonge deflexus, infra 

 submalleatus, circa umbilicum apertum et modicum subcompressus. 

 Apertura leviter obliqua, basi antrorsum protracta, sublunata, 

 rotunda, fauce purpurascente. Peristoma ad dextram vix, infra 

 magis expansum, ad basin et prfesertim ad columellam dilatatum, 

 purpurascens, margine columellari candido, late reflexo, cum 

 supero convergente. supero et extero regulariter incur\is. Galium 

 parietale nitidum. 



Diam. max. 44, min. 39, alt. 41, alt. apert. 23 mill. 



Ilab. — German New Guinea. 



This handsome shell has been sent me as " Sulcobasis, nov.s]^.," 

 and I am not aware that it has been described. My unique speci- 

 men, although dead, is not liable to be confounded with any Papuan 

 species I am acquainted with. It is probably more nearly related 

 to Sulcobasis Beatricis (Fauna Malac. della Nuova Guinea, p. 1G3, 

 PL IV. fig. 14) than to S. Nehsei, v. Mart. ( = Gerrardi, E. A. 

 Smith) and S. Minnegerodi, Strub., of S.E. New Guinea, but it 

 differs from Beatricis, of Tapparone-Canefri, of the Fly River, in 

 being smaller, of lighter substance, in having a much higher spire, 

 more slowly increasing volutions (6, not b}^ as in Beatricis) and 

 less numerous and conspicuous sj)iral sulcations. The shell is 

 rather thin for the genus. 



