80 THE LAND MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OP BRITISH NEW GUINEA, 



straight, sharp, columellar margin reflected. Diam. maj. 6, min. 

 5, alt. 4 ram. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



Hab. — Mission Hill, Upper St. Joseph River (Hedley) ; two 

 living specimens occurred to me under fallen timber in dense 

 jungle. 



23. Rhytida globosa, Hedley, 1890. 

 (Plate x., figs. 15-16.) 



Descr"' — Annual Report of British New Guinea, 1888-89, 

 p. 65. 



Shell depressed-globose, thin, translucent, perforate, very glossy ; 

 whorls 4^, the earlier flattened, the later rounded, rather rapidly 

 increasing, the last a little expanded, not descending at the 

 aperture ; colour reddish-chestnut above, lighter beneath, first 

 three whorls bleached nearly white ; sculpture almost effaced on 

 the body whorl, where nearly obsolete spiral impressed lines cross 

 the faint irregular growth lines, the earlier whorls exhibit fine 

 close oblique stria? cut by fine spiral grooves, a pitted (not striated) 

 surface is offered by the first whorl and a-half, which seem 

 embryonic ; suture impressed, slightly crenulated, bordered 

 beneath by a narrow white band, which is in turn edged by a 

 black line ; aperture ovate, oblique, peristome simple above, 

 slightly reflected below ; interior bluish-white, probably iridescent 

 when fresh, columellar wall overlaid by a thin deposit ; umbilicus 

 narrow, partially hidden by the reflected peristome at its j unction 

 with the base ; base a little inflated. Diam. maj. 17, min. 14, 

 alt. 10 mm. 



T y p e in Queensland Museum. 



Hab. — Mt. Victoria, the culminating point (13,000 ft.) of the 

 Owen Stanley Range (Macgregor). 



Near a village on the south shore of Milne Bay whose name I 

 do not know, but which may be identified by its position directly 

 south of Mita, I found, in company H. rehsei, C. Jiorridus, and 0. 

 brazierij a shell differing from but closely resembling Patula 



