106 THF. LAND H0LLU9CAN FAUNA OF BRITISH NEW GUINFA. 



vv •• r rAPPARONSi, Brasier, n.sp. 



Hate xi i.. tig. 56.) 



Shell shortly rimato. oblong-o\ ate, rather solid, regularly and 

 obliquely tinely striate, light brown ; spire gradually tapering 

 towards the rather pointed apex] whorls o. four upper convex, 

 the fifth slightly flattened on the side of the mouth, the last 

 much narrower; aperture vertical, circular; peristome whitish, 

 thieke .aded and reflected, with two channels : one very 



small, narrow, and deep at the insertion of the light margin, 

 the second shallow and surroundbd with thick callus between 

 the arcuate body-margin and the 'eft or eolumellar. Length of 

 largest specimen JL8, breadth S ; length of smallest specimen 14, 

 breadth 7 mm. 



••Type in Australian Museum, 



•• llab. — Fly River. British New Guinea (Froggatt). 



•• Pwo specimens — one living, the other dead — of this very rare 

 species were collected by Mr. \V. \Y. Froggatt when he went in 

 the Geographical Society > Expedition of 1885" to the Fly River. 



•• Some dead and worn specimens of this St - . .es « ere found 

 vS g I.. M. O'Albortis on the Fly River ; they are men- 



tioned by Dr, Q L'apparone-Canetri in his valuable paper on the 

 • Fauna tfalaoologioa Delia Nuova Guinea,' l>Sc. p. 268. I 

 take great pleasure in naming the species after my Valued friend 

 and correspondent, Dr. C Bapparoni Canefri." 



Sib PUPINA OVAUS, n.sp. 



(Plate xii.. tig. 37.^ 



Shell ovate-oblong, smooth and extremely glossy ; colour 

 reddish-horn; whorls ' . - g shortly ovate, 



total length ; apex obtuse ; suture margined by a callus, 

 faintly impressed ; aperture subvertical, circa 



deep and narrow, parietal lamella a stout rib curving from one 

 canal to the other, columella tlat, widely dilated, deeply notched 



