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OBSERVATIONS ON PAPUAN LAND AND FRESH- 

 WATER SHELLS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 

 SPECIES FROM NEW GUINEA AND WESTERN 

 AUSTRALIA. 



By C. F. Ancey. 



(Communicated by C. Hedley, F.L.S.) 

 (Plate XXXVI.) 



Some of the shells mentioned in the following paper were 

 forwarded to me, a little time ago, by W. W. Froggatt, Esq., who 

 collected them during his journeys to New Guinea and N. W. 

 Australia; a few others were obtained from a German dealer and 

 come from the portion of the island belonging to Germany. 



Besides these, I avail myself of the opportunity of speaking 

 about Papuan species recently described by MM. Smith, Brancsik 

 and myself, which seem to deserve special attention. 



First, a paper published by Dr. C. Brancsik (Contributiones ad 

 faunam Molluscorum insul«3 Papua) in the " Naturwissenschaftli- 

 chen Vei-eines des Trenesener Comitates" has appeared in 1895, 

 I think, after the publication of my pamphlet on the same subject, 

 incorporated in the " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales" for 1895. In this paper Dr. Brancsik described 

 (p. 222) and figured Hemiplecta divergent, which, although some- 

 what different in shape and elevation of spire from my //. 

 granigera, appears to be very close to it, if not quite identical. 

 The same author has named Pvpinella lateola (p. 225) another 

 species which is undoubtedly identical with P. Fultoni, Smith 

 (Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1895, November, Vol. xvi. p. 365, 

 PL XX. fig. 17). Which name has the priority is questionable. I 



