OS THE LAND MOLLUSCAH FAUNA or BRITISH NF.w GUINEA, 



58, T. woopi.akiuana, Hartman, 1886. 



Illus"-— Proc Acad, N.s. tdiil. 188(6, pi. 2, fig. 8, 



Desor 11 — L.C, p. 33. 



Typo- v \ 



Bab. — WootHark Islam! (Brazier). 



After examining the figures and descriptions of those two 

 species, l am enable to graep any specific distinction between 

 them. Specimens collected at the Woodlarks by Messrs. Kowald 

 ami Belford during the cruise of the " Merrie England " in 1890 

 are referable to both or either forms. 



09. P. OCCIDENTALIS, n.sp. 



(Plate xii., tig. 31.) 



Shell dextral, ovate elongate, thin ami translucent ; colour (t) ; 



whorls 5, rounded, last a little tlat toned below the suture ; sculp- 

 ture everywhere encircled by close sharply impressed spiral lines. 

 which are decussated by oblique irregular lines of growth, at the 

 intersection the former are sometimes distorted by the latter ; 

 spire slender, elongate, a quarter of total length ; apex dome- 

 shaped, half of first whorl embryonic ; suture impressed ; 

 umbilicus small, deep, compressed] aperture roundly ovate, scarcely 

 oblique, lip moderately reflected and expanded, margins of the 

 peristome connected by a thick callus. Length 19, breadth 10. 

 length of aperture 9, breadth (> mm. ; length 17, breadth 10, 

 length of aperture 9, breadth 7 mm. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



Hab. — On the ground under bushes upon Samarai Island 

 1 collected two dead shells of this species. 



The two Partulw described by Lesson have, as Tapparone 

 remarks, a doubtful claim to Papuan soil, and, omitting these, 

 the above species is the first described from New Guinea proper. 



70. tSn-.NooYKA SUBULA, Pfeitt'er, 1839. 

 S y u. — jiouwi, Gould. 1846] tuckrri, Pfr. 1846] octonc 

 D'Orb, 1^11 ;j . Adams, 1846 ; . Oox, 1864 ; upolensis, 



