On new Species of Land- Shells. 193 



XXITI. — Descriptions of new Species of Land-Shells from 

 British New Guinea, and Remarks on Two Species from the 

 Solomon Islands. By Edgar A. Smith, I.S.O. 



The specimens described in this paper were collected by 

 Mr. A. S. Meek, partly at Choiseul Island, one of the 

 Solomon Group, in December 1903, and partly during the 

 first three months of the present year, at Owgarra on 

 the Anabunga River, " two days '' beyond Mafuki (or 

 Mafoola), in the Owen Stanley Range, British New Guinea, 

 at an elevation above 8000 feet. 



Papuina Meekiana. 



Testa breviter conica, acute carinata, roseo-purpurea, flavo plus 

 minus obtecta, ad apicem nigreseens ; ant'raetus 5, celeriter 

 crescentes, tres superiores convexi, Iteves, coeteri plauiusculi, 

 oblique tenuiter corrugati, ultimus ad peripheriam acute albo- 

 carinatus, antice prope aperturam subito descendens, infra plani- 

 usculus, corrugatus, lineisque incrementi radiatim striatus ; 

 apertura intus nigro-purpurea ; peristoma saturate nigrum, 

 nitens, marginibus callo roseo-purpureo tenui junctis, superiore 

 bisinuato, columellari lato, planato, antice tuberculo parvo 

 munito. 



Diam. maj. 29 mm., min. 23, alt. 19. 



Hab. British New Guinea. 



This species belongs to the same group as P. naso, Martens, 

 P.gemina, Fulton, P. Taijloriana, Ad. & Rve., and P.jucunda, 

 Fulton. With regard to the peristome, it is very like P. naso, 



Papuina Meekiana. 



but the snout of the body-whorl is more pointed, and the 

 anterior part of the basal margin of the peristome is quite 

 different and bears a small tubercle. It is a much smaller 

 species also. In colour it is very similar to certain forms of 

 P. Tayloriana, but is subject to some variation. Sometimes 

 the dark purple ground-colour is almost concealed by a 

 yellowish coating which shows a disposition to be in some- 

 what obscure spiral zones, both on the upper and lower 



