318 Bihh'op'a2)ktcal Notices. 



Ad. & Rve., but its compressed carina, tortuous peristome 

 (somewhat similar in outline to that of P. naso, Marts.), and 

 different coloration separate it from the other species ot that 

 group. 



Papuina spadicea, sp. n. 



Shell imperforate, trochiform, moderately solid, shining, 

 light brown, with a white spiral band at periphery of body- 

 whorl, bordered by a narrow brown band beneath, some 

 brown spots behind basal margin of peristome ; suture 

 simple, margined by a narrow white band on penultimate 

 whorl ; whorls 5^, moderately convex, regularly increasing, 

 obliquely striated, faintly decussated by microscopic striie, 

 last shortly descending, bluntly carinate at periphery in front 

 only; aperture oval, lighter within, outer markings showing 

 through ; peristome slightly thickened, broadly expanded at 

 columellar and basal margins, extreme edge white, bordered 

 (except columella, which is whitish) by dark brown, margins 

 curved. 



Maj. diam. 28, alt. -li millim. 



tJab. New Mecklenburg Island (C Wahnes). 



Allied to P. Boyeri, Fis. & Bern., but less carinated in 

 front of last whorl, and the peristome is curved at junction 

 of basal and outer margins, not obtusely angled as in tliat 

 species. 



The oblique lines of growth of P. spadicea are decussated 

 by scarcely discernible subspiral striw, whereas in P. Boyeri 

 tlicy are comparatively conspicuous, giving a somewhat 

 n)aileated appearance to the surface of the body-whorl. From 

 P. humilis it can be distinguished by its different coloration, 

 subcarinate last whorl, its less oblique peristome, and higher 

 spire. 



Some specimens of P. spadicea have a more or less inter- 

 rupted sjjiral band of dark brown situated just below the 

 white peripheral zone. 



BIBLIOGKAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Zoology. An Elementary Text-Booh. {Cambridge I^'atnral Science 

 Manuals.) liy A. E. Shipley, M.A., aud E. W. MacBkide, M.A. 

 Cambridge University Press. 



The authors' endeavour in writing tliis book has been to produce 

 "an elomentarj- treatise on zoology which could readily be under- 

 stood by a student who had no previous knowledge of the subject." 

 This was undoubtedly a most praiseworthy aim, and few, we think, 

 will deny that it has been most successtully accomplished. The 



