INDEX TO THE LAND SHELLS OF VICTORIA. 
would suggest comparison with Helix georgiana, Quoy and Gaimard* 
from King George’s Sound, Western Australia; with Zonites walkeri, 
Gray, collected 70 miles from Fort Macquarie, New South W ales, 
in company with P. atomata; with Helix capillacea, Ferussac,t col- 
lected by Peron at Port Jackson, New South Wales; with Nanina 
fricata, Gould§, collected by Drayton in Illawarra, New South Wales; 
and with Helix gawleri, Brazier|| from the Mount Loity Range, 
South Australia. 
GENUS ParRyPHANTA, Albers, 1850. 
PARYPHANTA ATRAMENTARIA, Shuttleworth. 
Nanina atramentaria, Shuttleworth. Mittheil. Naturf. Gesell. Bern, 
1852, p. 194. 
Id., Fischer, Notitiae malacol., II., 1877, p. 5, pl. 7, f. 2 
Helix atramentaria, Cox, Monogr. Austr. Land Shells, 1868, p. 5, 
pl. wi. f. 2. 
Helicarion atramentaria, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 
ITT., 1879, p. 124, pl. ai., f. 2, 2a. 
Id., Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., IV., 1882, p. 75. 
Habitat.—Port Phillip (Shuttleworth), Mount Arnold and Bendigo 
(Cox), Fernshaw (Tate), and Dandenong Range (Tenison Woods). 
PARYPHANTA COMPACTA, SP. NOV. 
(Plate I., Figs. 3, 4, 5.) 
Shell depressedly globose, narrowly perforate, thin, whorls four. 
Colour brown, deepening on the last whorl to black and on the 
second whorl passing into straw yellow. The epidermis, in which 
the colour resides, is thick and very glossy. Sculpture: On the 
earlier whorls are oblique wrmkles, on the later a few irregular 
growth lines occur. Suture deeply impressed. Spire slightly ele- 
vated, base well rounded, umbilicus a narrow perforation. Aperture 
very oblique, slightly descending above, simuate at the periphery, 
left insertion a little reflected over the perforation. Margins united 
by a callus which within the throat is purple and finely granulated. 
This callous ining does not extend to the very edge of the aperture, 
but leaves a narrow epidermal margin. 
Maj. diam., 24 mm., min. diam., 19 mm.; height, 17 mm. 
Type presented to the Australian Museum by Dr. J. C. Cox, 
collected by Mr. A. D. Hardy in débris and rotten wood at Smithers 
Creek, Otway Ranges. Three other specimens collected by Mr. 
Kershaw at the Erskine Falls, Loutit Bay, differ by being smaller, 
namely :—Maj. diam., 20 mm.; min. diam, 15 mm.; height, 14 
mm., and by the spire whorls being almost flat. 
* Quoy et Gaimard. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., ii., 1832. p. 129, pl. x., f. 26-30. IJd., Ferussac 
et Deshayes, Hist. Nat. en wer (no date), i., p. 88, pl. 84, f. 3-4. Vitrea georgiana, Smith, 
Proc. Mal. Soc., i., 1894, p. 
+ Gray. Proc. Zool. os 1834, p . 63. 
t Ferussac. Tabl. Syst., 1821, p- 40, nom. nud. Id., Hist., pl. 82,f.5(no date). Id., Pfeiffer, 
Conch. Cab. Helix, 1846, p. 65, pl. 83, f. 7, 9. 
§ Gould. U.S. Expl. Exped., xii., 1852, p. 32, pl. v., f. 71a, b 
|| Brazier. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 618. Rhytida gawleri, Kobelt and Moellendorff, 
Conch. Cab. Agnatha, 1903, p. 37, pl. 7, f. 12-14. 
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