804 SYNONOMY OP SOME LAND MOLLUSCA, 



SYNONOMY OF SOME LAND MOLLUSCA FROM PAPUA 

 OR NEW GUINEA. 



By J. Brazier, C.M.Z,S., &c, &c. 



In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol, XL, fifth 

 series, 1883, Mr. Edgar A. Smith described four new species of 

 Helicidae said to have been collected at D'Entrecasteaux Island, 

 off the South-east of New Guinea. The four species so described 

 were not from D'Entrecasteaux Island, but were collected by 

 Messrs. Goldie, Rolls, Cairn, and Hunstein, inland from Port 

 Moresby, under the Astrolabe Rauge of Mountains. 



Mr. Goldie's party did send home birds collected on D'Entre- 

 casteaux Island ; and it is quite evident that they got into some 

 dealers hands who came to the conclusion that the shells must 

 have come from the same place as the birds. Mr. Smith says 

 that besides the new species the collection includes examples of 

 Helix Tayloriana, Adams and Reeve; H. yulensis, Brazier; Helix 

 Broadbenti, Brazier ; and a very beautiful variety of Helix corni- 

 culum, Hcnib. and Jacquinot. One of Mr.Smith's species I have 

 renamed, as his name had been previously given to a fossil species. 



1. Helix (Obba) Goldiei. 



Helix Goldiei, Brazier. Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. Vol. 5, p. 637, 

 1880. Helix (Obba) oxystoma, E. A. Smith, (non Thomae.) Annals. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., 5 series. Vol. XL, p. 191, 1883. 



Hab. — The foot of the Mount Astrolabe and Owen Stanley 

 Range, New Guinea (Mr. A Goldie.) 



