RECORD OF A EUROPEAN MOLLUSC 



NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA. 

 By SIR JOSEPH VERCO, M.D., F.R.C.S., Hon. Curator in Mollusca. 



More than fifty living examples of a bulimoid mollusc were sent to the Routh 

 Australian Museum by the Department of Agriculture, having been received 

 from Mr. Kieselbach of Mount Gambler. 



They are ([uite unlike any pulmonate recorded from South Australia, but 

 correspond with a European form. Mr. Charles Hedley, of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney, compared them with specimens of Ilelicella ventricosa from 

 Egypt, and found they closely agreed. They are evidently an introduced form, 

 not hitherto recorded for Australia. 



The following is the bibliography of the species : 

 Bulimus ventricosus Draparnaud, Tab. des Moll., 1801, pi. iv, fig. 31, 32; 



Deshayes, ilnim. s. Vert. (ed. 2), viii, 1838, p. 235, No. 31. 

 Ilelicella (Cochlicella Eisso, 1826) veniricosa Tryon, Man. Conch, (ser. 2), 



Pulmonata, iv, 1888, p. 32, pi. vi, fig. 83-85, dimensions 9 mm. x 5-5 mm.; 



Pilsbry, op. cit., ix, 18!)4, p. 2(i^II. ventrosa auct, and //. bulimoides Moq. 



Locality. (Tryon.) "Mediterranean Region, Canaries, Azores, and 

 Bermuda (introduced)." 



Our specimens reach 10 mm. x 5 or 5-5 mm, and so are slightl.y longer and 

 relatively narrower than the European examples. 



