BY C. HEDLEY. 



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20. T. nigrans, E. A. Smith, 1889. 

 Illus n — Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), iv. pi. 13, figs. 9, 10, 11. 

 D e s c r" — L.c. p. 200. 

 T y p e in British Museum. 

 Hab. — Rossel Island (Thomson, Belford and Kowald). 



var. cornea, var.nov. 



Smaller than type, horn-coloured. Diam. maj. 16, min. 14, alt. 

 6 mm. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



Hab. — Sudest Island (Kowald and Belford) ; one specimen. 



21. Ochthephila albertisi, Brazier, 1876. 

 (Plate x., fig. 11.) 



Descr 11 — P.L.S.KS.W. (1), I. 104; Ann. Mus. Gen. xix. 

 p. 183. 



Type in Macleay Museum. 



H a b. — Yule Island (Brazier). 



Figured from the type. The generic position of this species is 

 doubtful. 



22. Charopa texta, n.sp. 



(Plate x., fig. 12.) 



Shell depressed turbinate, thin, perforate, glistening ; colour 

 reddish-corneous ; whorls 4 J, rounded, flattened beneath the 

 suture ; sculpture strong sinuate oblique radiating ribs, of which 

 the last whorl possesses about 60, in each interstice and parallel 

 to the ribs are 4 or 5 fine raised hair lines, decussating these 

 secondary costse and of the same calibre are raised spiral lines, 

 which are most prominent on the spire and base ; epidermis 

 possessing a silky sheen ; suture deeply impressed ; apex not 

 prominent, embryonic whorls 1J, shining, nearly smooth, but 

 faintly repeating the adult sculpture ; umbilicus narrow, deep, 

 spiral ; base rounded ; aperture oblique, roundly lunate, peristome 



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