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OJSr SOME NEW OR HITHERTO LITTLE KNOWN 



LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA OR 



ADJACENT ISLANDS. 



By C. F. Ancey, Administrateur-adjoint, Dra-el-Mizan, 

 Algeria. 



(Communicated by C. Hedley ) 



(Plate XXVI.) 



Some time ago I received from a German dealer, under probably 

 unpublished names, the following land shells belonging to the 

 Papuan fauna. Although the exact localities of most of them 

 are unknown, they are, I think, from the German possessions of 

 New Guinea. 



L Papuina Hedleyi, E. A. Smith. 



(Fig. 1.) 



Helix {Geotrochus) Hedleyi, Smith, Journ. of Conchology, Yol, 

 vii, 1892, p. 72, = Helix Cnnefriana, Dohrn, Cat. Staudinger 

 (unpublished). * 



I take the opportunity of giving a figure of this little known 

 and very remarkable form from a specimen in my possession. 

 Smith's description applies perfectly well to it, and the dimensions 

 given are just the same. My unique specimen appears, however, 

 to be of a darker colour, and the aperture is dark within; the 

 tuberculous columella is stained with pale violet or white in this 

 example, and the infra-sutural line is conspicuous in the penulti- 

 mate whorl as well as on the last, but fades on the upper ones. 

 I failed to detect any spiral impressed lines on the surface of the 



* This synonymy is supported by Sykes. Journal of Malacology IV. 

 p. 51 [c.H.] 



