NEW LAND SHELLS — HEDLEY. 151 



DESCRIPTIONS of NEW LAND SHELLS, with NOTES on 

 KNOWN SPECIES. 



By Charles Hedley, Conchologist. 



{Plate xxviii.) 



Papuina mayana, sp. nov. 

 (PI. xxviii., tigs. 10, 11). 



Shell imperforate, ovately conical, periphery rounded, glossy. 

 Colour — the base and a subsutural stripe in the lower three whorls 

 are ochre-yellow, contrasting sharply with a broad dark chocolate 

 band which intervenes, the upper whorls are slate. Whorls six, 

 rounded, divided by an impressed suture. Sculphire oblique, 

 regular, incremental lines are decussated by faint, spiral striations 

 the latter only visible under the lens. Ajjerture very oblique, 

 slightly descending, subrhorabic ; lip a little reflected ; columella 

 deeply entering, then straight, edged within, not truncate anteriorly 

 but joining the basal lip at an angle ; a thin white callus spreads 

 on the base. Major diameter 22, minor 19 mm.; height 25 mm.; 

 another specimen, 18, 22, 23-5 mm. 



The species has a general superficial resemblance to P. meta 

 from the Solomons. The Australian Papuina are confined to the 

 Torresian Region, of which they are characteristic inhabitants. 

 At present there are known, P. macgillivrayi, Forbes ; P. bidwilli, 

 PfeifFer ; P. cerea, Hedley; P. poireiiana, Pfeiffer; P./ucata, 

 Pfeiffer; P. conscendens, Cox; and P. folicola, Hedley, The 

 novelty is a near ally of P. poiretiana, from which it differs by 

 colour, greater breadth, and absence of perforation. 



Zoc. — Collected by Miss E. Hatfield at Rossville, on the Upper 

 Annam River, near Cooktown, Queensland. 



It is named in honour of Dr. T. H. May, of Bundaberg, at the 

 desire of Mr. Arthur Dean who presented the type specimens to 

 the Trustees. 



Endodonta aculeata, sp. nov. 



(PI. xxviii., figs. 1, 2, 3). 



Shell thin, depressed, spire level, umbilicus a quarter of the 

 shell's diameter. Colour pale ochraceous. Whorls three and a 

 half, rounded. Sculpture oblique, thin, recurved, epidermal 

 lamella?, in number about thirty, cross the last whorl from the 

 suture to the umbilicus. Each lamella is produced at intervals 

 into long, slender points, so arranged as to fall into four equi- 

 distant spiral lines, one being on the base, one at the periphery, 



