378 LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA OR ADJACENT ISLANDS, 



This very pretty and interesting Papuina is evidently very 

 close to Mr. Brazier's Helix Gorenduenais (Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, 3rd April, 1886, p. 841), and I first thought they 

 might be identical. However, Papuiyta Kuharyi has not 5 whorls, 

 and, judging from Mr. Brazier's description, also differs in several 

 other particulars. No mention is made by the latter of the 

 disposition of the small spots, which, in Gorenduevsis, are 

 "pinkish," not grey nor blackish towards the aperture. Mr. 

 Brazier says hk shell is " flesh-tinted a cream colour," while 

 Kxfharyi is yellowish cream-colour, reddish-pink behind the 

 peristome. The aperture, in this, is intense black on the lip, 

 violet-purple on the parietal margin, and purple-brown within the 

 throat, while in Gorenduensis, "the interior is bright pink, the 

 peristome blackish-purple," and the " margins joined with a thin 

 pink callous entering spirally into the interior of the aperture." 

 I therefore suppose the two species are really different from each 

 other. 



4. Hemiplecta granigera, n.sp. 



Testa subsolida, depressa, orbiculata, aperte uml^ilicata, oblique 

 confertim striata et undique minute spiraliter granulata (granulis 

 in ultimo valid ioribus, circa umbilicum magis obsoletis), vix 

 nitida, sordide fusca, medio obtuse angulata, infra angulum zona 

 obscuriore per testam conspicua diffusaque cincta, subtus pallidior. 

 Spira depresso-conoidea, obtusa. Anfractus 6 subconvexi, sutura 

 parum profunda, simplici; ultimus haud descendens, superne et 

 pn«sertim infra angulum medianum obtusum pallidum convexus. 

 Apertura ampla, obliqua, lunata, transverse subovalis. Peristoma 

 simplex, acutum, rectum, marginibus remotis, callo tenui nitido 

 concolore junctis, margine columellari late arcuato, vix expansius- 

 culo, umbilicum (pro genere magnum, anfractus omnes ostenden- 

 tem) nullomodo obtegente. 



Diam. maj. 43, min. 35, alt. 22 mill. 



PjOC. — (German?) New Guinea. 



This species should perhaps be referable to Rhysota, but is 

 more nearly related, from the general appearance of the shell, to 



