DESCRIPTION OP A XEW PAPUAN LAND SHELL — IIEDLEY. 1 1 



It might here be ruentioned that in 1 887 Prof. Jeffrey Bell contri- 

 buted a note* on the "Habitat of Peripatus leuchartii" wherein he 

 mentions that previously the place of origin of this species was 

 vaguely stated as "New Holland" and on the receipt of two 

 specimens from Dr. E. P. Ramsay, of Sydney, gave the Queens- 

 land scrubs, near Wide Bay, as the more precise locality. The 

 error is perpetuated by Sedgwick,! who incidentally remarks, 

 " the finder's name has not been communicated to nie." 



I would point out that the specimens referred to as coming 

 from Wide Bay were collected by myself on April 3rd, 1887, 

 when I obtained several examples under stones close to the 

 Hospital and Acclimatisation Society's Grounds, in Brisbane. 

 These were handed to Dr. Ramsay, who sent two specimens of 

 them to Prof. Bell for study. They were ultimately forwarded 

 to Prof. Sedgwick for inclusion in his Monograph. 



Mr. Henry Tryon previously recorded t the finding of other 

 examples from the same locality in conjunction with myself, but 

 their identity with those mentioned by Sedgwick has not to my 

 knowledge previously been made known. 



Mr. Clias. Hedley tells me that he found Peripatus under a 

 log by the road-side at the altitude of 2,000 feet in 1889 at 

 Cunningham's Gap, South Queensland, and that this specimen 

 was pronounced by Mr. Tryon, then of the Queensland Museum, 

 to be P. letwhartii, which determination was no doubt correct. 



DESCRIPTION OF a NEW PAPUAN LAND SHELL. 

 By C. Hedley, Conchologist. 



Thersites septentrionalis, n. SJJ. 



Shell turbinate conic, narrowly perforate, large, solid, brownish- 

 yellow with deep chocolate bands. A third of the base is 

 occupied by a broad chocolate band whose outer margin reaches 

 the insertion of the lip, a yellow peripheral zone of less width 

 follows, a chocolate band as wide as the last and which becomes 

 supersutural in the upper whorls, a narrow yellow, a wider 

 chocolate, a narrow yellow, and a narrow subsutural chocolate 



*Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xx., 1887, p. 252. 

 tQt. Journ. Micro. Sci., xxviii., 1888, p. 431. 

 X Proc. Koy. Soc. Qd., iv., 1887, p. 78. 



