376 LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA OR ADJACENT ISLANDS, 



ac in typo, in apertura transmeantibus. Paries aperturalis pallide 

 roseus. 



var. VIOLACEO-FLAVA. 



Prfficedenti statura forma et absentia sculpturae similis, sed typo 

 fasciis vicina. Superne atro-violacea, dehinc pailidior, denique 

 late flava, fasciis 2 periphericis ornatae, supera latiore, siiturali 

 prope apertiiram tantum conspicua, mox evanescenti. Paries 

 aperturalis et pars ultimi infra purpureo tincta. 



Log. — "Tuom," probably in German New Guinea, or Bismarck 

 Archipelago. From the same locality I received at the same 

 time Helicina suprafasciata, Sowerby. 



Shell imperforate, trochiform, rather thin. Spire conic, obtuse. 

 Whorls less than 5, convex, regularly increasing, suture linear, 

 simple; the last one large, rounded at the periphery. Sculpture 

 faint, obsolete growth lines slightly decussated by fine crowded 

 lines, spirally impressed above and below (where they become 

 somewhat wavy and irregular), and obliquely running towards 

 the aperture on the upper part of the last whorl. Surface more 

 shining in the varieties, differing also from the type in being 

 entirely smooth or nearly so, the only sculpture consisting in 

 obsolete growth lines, and in colour. The whorls also appear to 

 be a trifle more convex. Colour (in the type) greyish above, 

 fading into milky white and finally into intense yelloAv on the last 

 whorl; the latter is, on its middle, ornamented with two broad 

 chestnut-black zones, the upper one extending on the penultimate 

 whorl; painted besides with a finer sutural band of the same hue, 

 also ascending on the penultimate. All these bands are con- 

 spicuous in the interior of aperture. The latter is diagonal, 

 shortly and abruptly deflected in front. Lip intense black, 

 reflected, roundly beaked at the peripher}^, flexuous above, then 

 dented without and somewhat tuberculate within. Columella 

 broad, adherent to the base, very slightly tuberculous at the end 

 on the inner edge. 



This interesting novelty belongs, like the following species, to 

 the group of Papuiim Tayloriana, Ad. and Reeve, but is desti- 

 tute of any carina on the last whorl, and recalls to mind Papuina 



