SMITH : AUSTRALIAN" LAND-SHELLS. 



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Family HELICINID^. 



Helicina Walkeei, n.sp. PI. VII. Fig. 26. B.M. 



Testa parva, depresse conica, plerumque rufescens, ad peripheriam 

 pallida, interdum omnino aut rufescens aut pallida ; anfractiis 4 

 convexiusculi, striis incrementi tenuissimis aliisque microscopicis 

 obliquis plus minus sculpti, ultimus in medio acute rotimdatus, 

 antice levissime descendens, inferne callo centrali pellucido instructus ; 

 apertura obliqua ; peristoma pallidum, anguste expansum. Diam. 

 maj. 5, min. 4"3 mm. ; alt. 35 mm. Hab. — Queens, Baudin and 

 Parry Islands. 



This is a larger species than R. jana, Cox, from Port Macquarie, 

 and has no spiral striae on the body -whorl. 



EXPLANATION OF FIGURES OX PLATE VII. 



