140 CHLORITIS LANSBERGEANA. 



NOTE VIII. 



ON SOME LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA AND 



NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 



OE TWO NEW SPECIES AND A NEW VARIETY 



BY 



Dr. J H. VERNHOUT. 



(With Plate 7). 



The shells, mentioned in the following communication, 

 have come in the possession of the Leyden Museum at 

 various times. Some of them have been acquired long ago, 

 and were labelled with false names; other ones have been 

 presented quite recently to the Museum. Most shells repre- 

 sent already known species ; but having previously been 

 recorded from other localities, their habitat might be of 

 some interest. Mr. G. K. Gude has had the kindness of 

 identifying those shells, for which I had no specimens or 

 good figures at my disposal for comparison. 



Chloritis lansbergeana Dohrn. 



Helix landsberg eana, Dohrn, 1879, Nachrichtsbl. D. Malak. 



Ges. XI, p. 69. System. Conch. Cab. 2 ed. Band I, Abt. 12*, 



p. 598, T. 175, f. 1-3. 

 Hab. — Fak-Fak, west Dutch New Guinea. 



Mr. Palmer van den Broek. 



As far as I know only one specimen of this beautiful 

 shell is mentioned in literature, viz. the specimen in the 

 collection of the late Dr. Dohrn at Stettin. Its exact habitat 

 was unknown, Dohrn writing about it : „habitare dicitur 

 in insula Celebes? an potius in Nova Guinea?" 



Notes from the Leyden IVCuseum, Vol. XXXV. 



