descbiption of pugnus — hedley. l05 



Endodonta paradoxa, Cox. 



Ref. — Cox, Mon. Austr. L. Shells, p. 21, pi. xi., f. 13 (as 

 H. morti), etc. 



Log. — Moonbar (3,500 ft.), Mt. Kosciusko. The form here 

 recorded is larger and more globose than typical examples. 



CiiLORlTis BREVIPILA, Pfeiffer. 



i?e/:— Pilsbry, Man. Conch., (2) vi., p. 265, pi. Iviii., f. 29-30. 



Log. — Moonbar, Mt. Kosciusko, N.S.W. 



Mr. Helms also reports a Fanda^ from Mt. Kosciusko, probably 

 P. atomata, Gray, which has not come into my hands. 



Rhenea splendidula, Pfeiffer. 



Ref, — Pfeiller, Concbylien Cabinet, (2nd ed.), Band I., Abth. 

 12, pt. 2. p. 109, pi. Ixxxv., f. 1-3. 



Log. — Mt. Kosciusko. East coast of Australia generally. 



DESCRIPTION OP PUGNUS, a NEW GENUS op 

 RINGICULID^, PROM SYDNEY HARBOUR. 



By C. Hedley, F.L.S. 



(Conchologist to the Australian Museum). 



[Plate XXIII., Fig. 1.] 



Among several microscopic shells taken by Mr. A. U. Henn 

 on stones at low water in Little Manly Cove, near Sydney, one 

 attracted our special attention. The lindor gratified the writer 

 by placing the novelty in his hands for study, and on learning 

 the result thereof has generously pi'esented to the Australian 

 Museum the most perfect of the three specimens obtained, which 

 constitutes the subject of the present communication. 



The long narrow aperture was contrasted in turn with every 

 involute shell figured in Pilsbry's Monograph of the Order* with- 

 out matching it. Then it occurred to me that those features of the 

 thickened lip, etc., in which the new form departed from the plan 

 of Gylichna, 1^07'natina, and so on, were all characteristic of 

 Ringicula, whose A^ery diflferent outline had not at first invited 

 attention. Critical comparison enforced the conviction that a 

 telescoped Ringiculoid had now presented itself ; for which a 



* Mamml Conch., (1) xv., pis. 18 - 60. 



