Smith : Catalogue of Gf.nus Partim.a. 409 



I^razier, of Sidney, June i8, 1885. He says : "You will notice that 

 1 send you a great many specimens of the Partula called ^uamensis 

 rfr., which Dr. von Martens says is riifa Less. Some have a 

 peculiar red line at the periphery." There is a photograph of one of 

 the adult examples (No. 4341). See. No. 4331. 



4297. '^Partula guamensis Pfr., Asention Island, Coll. Pse. ; = 

 ponapensis Hartm." Six adult and eight embryonic specimens. 

 P. ponapensis is the name proposed by Dr. Hartman as a substitute 

 for guamensis, which he considered a misnomer. See Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. Phila. , 1885, j). 221. He remarks that specimens in the Cox 

 collection are labeled Asention Island. Pease, in Proc. Z06I. Soc. 

 Lond. 1871, p. 473, gives the locality Ponape. Probably both Pease 

 and Cox obtained their specimens from Brazier, who, in that case, is 

 the only authority for the habitat. Ponape is one of the Caroline 

 Islands, and Asention, or Ascencion, may be a place on it. 



4298. "Partula rufa Less., Ouhalan, Brazier dat." On the back 

 of the card is written: '• (iiven by Cox and Brazier." Two speci- 

 mens, one a dead shell. The latter was received from Dr. Cox. 

 Subsequently Mr. Brazier sent the better example, as appears from 

 Brazier's letter, dated Sidney, June 18, 1885 : "As you wish to receive 

 a good specimen oi P. rufa Less., I send you the best I have." Both 

 specimens were collected by Brazier " on the banks of the Leila River, 

 Chabroul Harbor, Ouhalan or Strong's Island." See Hartman, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., 1886, p. 30, PI. II, Fig. 15. Oualan or 

 Strong's Island is one of the Caroline Islands. In Dr. Hartman's MS. 

 work the habitat given is "Ovalau." (Fiji Is.) Probably this is a 

 mistake, due to a letter from Mr. Layard, June 11, 1887, in which he 

 says: " If Oualan is in Fiji it should be Ovalau, on which Levuka is 

 situated." Mr. Garrett wrote, September 5, 1882 : "I don't think there 

 is any doubt of the Strong's Island Partula being Lesson's P. rufa.'" 



With the Hartman collection there is an excellent ])hotograph of the 

 two specimens of P. rufa, together with one of P. guamensis Pfr. 

 (No. 4341); also, two photographs on cards (one of them colored) of 

 P. rufa and Diplomorpha coxi (Nos. 4342, 4343). 



Notes. — Partula obesa Pse. This species is not represented in the 

 Hartman collection. In Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., 1885, ]). 221, 

 the habitat gi\en is " Fortuna and Vavao Islands," but in his MS. 

 work Dr. Hartman says that the species was described from a single 

 sjjecimen and that the habitat was unknown. 



