48 RECORDS OF THE ATTSTRAIilAN MUSEUM. 



■" Sab. — Collected by Mr. A. Guillianetti, on Mt. Scratchley with 

 the preceding and with Rhytida globosa, which latter has been 

 only previously recorded from Mt. Victoria. 



This shell, of which my single example may not be adult, 

 appears allied to (Zonites) suhfulvus, Gassies, from New Caledonia, 

 and to Conulus paraniatiensis, Cox, from N.S.W., but is more 

 depressed than either, smaller, and with a whorl less. A near 

 ally is C. starkei, Brazier, which however has much coarser 

 sculpture, and has also more whorls and larger size, two differences 

 which perhaps balance one another. It belongs to a group which 

 Tryon and others rank under Conulus. Thinking it improbable 

 that this Palseartic genus extends so far, I prefer to temporarily 

 locate it in Sitala, to some species of which it bears a likeness, 

 and which has in another form been shown to reach New Guinea. 

 Attention to kindred small forms and to the literature devoted to 

 their elucidation (!) shows how much definitions are required for 

 Conulus, Microcystis, Trochonanina, and other groups. 



While on the subject of land shells from British New Guinea, 

 it may be mentioned that the unfiguered Succinea struhelli, 

 Kobelt, and *S^. paiouana, Strubell,* from Cloudy Mountains and 

 Lome Range, North of Orangerie Bay, B.N.G., are most probably 

 synonymous with Succinea simplex, Pfeiffer. In stating that his 

 is the first record of the genus in Papua, Herr Strubell shows 

 that he has failed to compare his supposed new species with one 

 already illustrated and identified from New Guinea. f 



Another addition to the known fauna of British New Guinea has 

 lately come to light in specimens of Atopos prisniatica, Tapparone, 

 Canefri, now in the Australian Museum, collected on the Fly 

 River, by W. W. Froggatt, during the Expedition of the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Australasia in 1885. It was first recorded 

 from Sorong I., Dutch New Guinea, and then from an island of 

 Torres Straits, Q., and the Huon Gulf, German New Guinea, j 



* Nachr. dent. Malak. Gesell, Oct. 1895, p. 152. 



t Proc. Linn. Soc N.S.W. (2), vii., 1892, pp. 100, 691-2, pis. xii., f. 32 ; 

 xlii., ff. 34-37. 



X Simroth, Zeits. "Wiss. Zool., Hi., 1891, p. 594. 



