Land- Mollusca from New Guinea. 1S3 



I jilace tills curious little form with doubt under Pary- 

 phavla. I think it probable that this species will, upon exam- 

 ination of the anatomy, prove to belong to a new section of 

 the Endodontidte. 



Paputna gemina^ sp. n. 



Shell imperforate, depressed-conic, smooth, sometimes all 

 white (except peristome), sometimes upper whorls dark, with 

 lower white, ornamented bj reddish spiral colour-bands, 

 rather acutely carinated at the periphery in front, getting more 

 obtuse towards the peristome; whorls 5, slightly convex, 

 regularly increasin";, last descending in front ; peristome and 

 outer ])art of parietal wall of a polished black colour : aperture 

 white within ; peristome expanded, especially at the colu- 

 mellar portion, indented at the outer portion, and bearing a 

 small tooth-like projection. 



Alt. 20, maj. diam. 31 millim. (white specimen). 

 „ 19 ,, 30 ,, (banded specimen). 



Ildh. Arva Kiver, 5000 feet, British New Guinea [Em'd 

 WeLske). 



'y\\\i form differs from P. naso^ Martens, in being smaller, 

 much narrower in proportion to its height, not so acutely 

 carinated at the periphery, and principally by the difference 

 in the shape of the outer portion of the peristome, which in 

 P. gemina is not nearly so contorted as in P. naso. Tiie 

 foregoing differences are quite constant in the four specimens 

 before me. 



Papuina cynthia, sp. n. 



Shell globose-conic, umbilicated, the perforation almost 

 concealed by the ex])ansion of the peristome, rather solid, 

 yellowish, with spiral bands of dark brown, which are 

 sometiuies interrupted, apex rather obtuse; whorls 5, mode- 

 rately convex, obliquely striated, the striaj on last whorl being 

 broader and cord-like ; aperture subovate, dark within ; 

 peristome white, broadly expanded and slightly reticcted, 

 margins joined by a thin callus. 



Alt. 25, maj. diam. 30 millim. 



llab. British New Guinea (tide C. E. Beddome). 



A large number of specimens of this species were obtained 

 by the late C. E. Beddome, of Tasmania, who distributed 

 them as P. Brazierce, Braz. ; it, however, differs from that 

 species by its coarser oblique striation, its more globose form, 

 ild flatter apex, and dilierent coloration. Although very 



