BY C. F. ANCBY. 773 



2. Chloritis Moellendorffi, Ancey, n.sp. 



(Plate XXXVI., fig. 7.) 



Testa globoso-depressa, aperte pervieque umbilcata, lute ovel 

 purpureo-fusca, setis brevibus in quincunciis dispositis undique 

 hirsuta, baud nitida. Spira convexa, obtusa, plus minusve elevata. 

 Anfractus 5 convex!, regulariter crescentes, sutura valde impressa; 

 ultimus altus, rotundatus, tumidus, antice paulatim descendens, 

 circa umbilicum circularem et mediocrem vix compressus, minime 

 angulatus. Apertura subobliqua, basi leviter antice jDroti^acta, 

 regulariter rotundato-sublunata. Peristoma subincrassatum, extus 

 lividum, intus purpurascens, undique breviter expansum, reflexi- 

 usculum, marginibus conniventibus, basali reflexo, columellari 

 dilatato. 



Diam. max. 22i, min. vix 18, alt. 15, alt. apert. 11 J mill. 



Hah. — Tuom, German New Guinea. 



I venture to separate this species from C. eustoma, Pfr., which 

 is absolutely the same as C. erinaceus, Pfeiffer (vide E. A. Smith, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, June 2, 1885, p. 594), and which is, as far as I 

 can ascertain, peculiar to the Solomon Islands, not only on 

 account of the very different locality, but also of the characters 

 which appear to be fairly constant in both forms. Chloritis 

 Mijllendorffi always has a convex, not planulate, spire; it has not 

 the last whorl roundly shouldered as in eustoma; the aperture is 

 not so oblique and the outer lip somewhat thinner; besides the 

 umbilicus, although of about the same size, is not obtusely keeled 

 as in that species, and the margins of the peristome not so remote 

 from each other. 



Many years ago I received from Mr. John Brazier a very 

 similar shell from New Britain labelled Helix discordialis, Per., 

 but it has but little to do with the latter. The true discordialis 

 has a widely expanded peristome, it is more depressed, and its 

 spire also is less elevated. 



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