BY C. HEDLEY AND C. T. MUSSON. 561 



P. strangei, Pfeiffer. 



Under logs and leaves in scrubs ; common. 

 Miriam Vale, Three Moon Creek, Cania, Dalgangal, Banban, 

 Kilkivan, Gympie and the North Pine River. 



DlPLOMMATINA EGREGIA, n.Sp. 



Shall dextral, umbilicate, elliptically ovate, thin, translucent ; 

 colour, shell white beneath an amber epidermis ; whorls 5J- 

 regularly increasing, slightly convex, flattened beneath the suture, 

 the last exceeding in length the remainder, slightly ascending at 

 the aperture ; sculpture, numerous, small, slightly raised, oblique 

 ribs, of which there are about forty on the body 

 whorl, becoming closer as the whorl proceeds, on 

 the antepenultimate there are few, and on the 

 earlier none, between the ribs microscopically, regu- 

 larly, spirally striated ; suture impressed ; apex 

 obtuse ; umbilicus narrow and deep ; aperture 

 scarcely oblique, oval, rounded below, right margin 

 of peristome narrow at the point of insertion, 

 becoming wider and more reflected as it approaches the columella, 

 the latter widely reflected over the perforation and terminating 

 abruptly above, body whorl overlaid within the aperture by a 

 slight callus. Operculum not collected. Alt. 3 J, breadth l|mm. 



Hob. — Calliungal (Musson) ; dead shells only. 



Type specimens are deposited in the Australian Museum. 



This species belongs to the subgenus Arinia, of H. and A. 

 Adams ; it has no ally in the Australian fauna, but approaches 

 D. minus, Sow., and D. scalatella, -Dohrn, from Luzon in the 

 Philippines. 



Helicina diversicolor, Cox. 



Under stones ; fairly plentiful. 



Miriam Yale, Warro, Kilkivan, Gympie, Kenil worth and 

 North Pine River. 



