102 THE LAND MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA, 



beneath the suture, la.st angled at the periphery ; sculpture faint 

 oblique striae ; suture impressed ; spire produced, one-third of total 

 length ; base rounded ; umbilicus ample, funnel-shaped, angled at 

 the margin ; aperture vertical, subcircular, angled above, peristome 

 slightly thickened and scarcely reflected, callus on the body whorl 

 thin. Operculum not observed. Length 3^ breadth 2 mm. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



H a b. — Mission Hill, Upper St. Joseph River (Hedley) ; two 

 examples under fallen timber in dense jungle. 



78. Bellardiella minor, n.sp. 

 (Plate xii., fig. 35.) 



Shell imperforate, oblong ; colour ^ ; whorls 6, penultimate and 

 antepenultimate bulging above the suture, last rather flattened on 

 the periphery and more so on the base ; spire inclined to the right, 

 Ipss than half of total length ; apex acute, first two whorls devoid 

 of sculpture appearing embryonic ; sculpture, close oblique, sharp, 

 thread-like riblets ; suture impressed ; aperture circular, peristome 

 thick, expanded and briefly reflected, body-whorl overlaid with a 

 thick callus, upper canal obsolete, lower one converted into a 

 closed circum-umbilical tube, whose orifice is, when adult, quite 

 outside the peristome, when immature the tube communicates 

 with the adjacent whorl by a narrow slit, whose position is later 

 marked by a scar. Length 14, breadth 9, diam. of aperture 4 mm. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



Hab. — Mission Hill, near the village of Ngauauni, upon the 

 upper waters of the St. Joseph ; I found several dead specimens in 

 a banana garden. 



The arrangement of the lateral canal resembles that of Puirinella 

 minor and P. macgregori. 



79. Pupinella macgregori, E. A. Smith, 1889. 

 Illus 11 -— Ann. Mag Nat. Hist. (6), iv. pi. 13, fig. 1, 2. 

 Descr n --L.c. (6), iv. 205. 



