THE 



JOURNAL OF MALACOLOGY. 



No. 3. September 30th, i8g6. Vol. V. 



ON THE ANATOMY OF CHLORITIS (SUL- 

 COBASIS) STIROPHORA, E. A. SMITH, 

 & OF C. REHSEI, VON MARTENS. 



By WILLIAM MOSS & WILFRED MARK WEBB, F.L.S., 

 {PLATE III.) 



In the " Guide to the Study of the Helices"* by Mr. Pilsbry 

 the latter says that the anatomy of the snails placed in the 

 section Sulcobasis of the genus Chloritis is unknown : since the 

 making of this statement, the only contribution to the subject 

 that we are aware of, is contained in a paper by Mr. Hedleyf 

 and deals with the internal structure of CMovitis [Sulcobasis) 

 rehsei v. Martens. 



Some tune ago one of us received from Mr. Da Costa, three 

 spirit specimens of Chloritis (Sulcobasis) stivophova, E. A. Smith 

 together with a single example of C. rehsei. The former species 

 was originally described as Helix [Hadra) stirophora by Mr. Edgar 

 Smith who subse(]uently transferred it to the position which it 

 now occupies because, he informs us "on the examination of a 

 number of other and fresher specimens", he " noticed that the 

 surface was minutely pitted in some places and evidently at one 

 time was pilose." 



The references are as follows : — 



Helix [Hadva) stiropliova. E. A. Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., ser. 6, Vol. V. (March, 1895) PP- 231-2. 

 Figured (Nov. 1895) P^- ^^-i ^o- 9- 

 Chloritis (Sulcobasis) stirophora. E. A. Smith, Journ. of 

 Malac, Vol. V., No. 2 (June, 1896), p. 17. 

 No remarks. 



* Manual of Conchology, ser. 2. Pulmonala, vol. ix., pt. 35 (August, 1894) p. 120. 



t The Land Molluscan Fauna of British New Guinea, 2nd supplement, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, N.S.W. Vol. ix., ser. 2 (June 27th, 1S94), p. 384. 



