176 HELIX-HADRA. 



fleeted, margins approximating, the right descending, columellar 

 margin largely reflected over the umbilicus. (Brazier.) 



Alt. 11, greater diam. 14, lesser 12 lines. 



Mount Elliott, Queensland. 



H. (Hydra) Tomsoni BRAZIER, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i,. 

 p. 97, 1875. 



*** 

 Species allied to Sphcerospira from New Guinea. 



The following shells differ from Sphcerospira in much the same 

 way the latter differs from Badistes ; they are heavier, more solid, 

 with well-reflexed peristome. 



H. BROADBENTI Brazier. PL 25, fig. 100 ; pi. 39, ngs. 75, 76. 



Shell large, umbilicated, subglobose with conoidal spire, heavy and 

 solid, deep chestnut or purplish brown with a yellowish band on 

 the upper and another on the lower surface of the body-whorl ; sur- 

 face smooth, not granulate; lip pure white, reflexed all around, 

 dilated and partly covering the umbilicus. 



The shell is strong, with conoid al spire composed of nearly 6 whorls, 

 separated by sutures only slightly impressed. Surface lightly 

 obliquely striatulate ; color yellowish, with a broad dark band be- 

 low the suture, another forming an umbilical patch, and a very 

 broad dark girdle around the middle of the body-whorl. The spire 

 is lighter ; the dark bands coalesce on the latter part of the body- 

 whorl. Last whorl somewhat but not much deflexed in front. 

 Aperture oblique, wide, somewhat lunate, dark grayish-purple in- 

 side ; peristome well reflexed, pure white, dilated at the columella. 

 The back of the reflexed lip is white, the thin yellow epidermis 

 usually being deciduous there. The interior of the umbilicus is white. 



Alt. 35, greater diam. 43, lesser 36 mill. 



Alt. 32, greater diam. 38, lesser 32 mill. 



Port Moresby, Hall Sound, Laloki and Goldie Rivers, New Guinea ; 

 Is. Entrecasteaux. 



H. broadbenti BRAZIER, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii, p. 25. 

 TAPPARONE-CANEFRI Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xix, p. 188, t. 5, f. 

 21 ; also 1. c., vol. xxiv (Ser. 2, vol. iv) p. 144, 1887. 



A large solid species, having two yellowish-brown bands on a 

 'dark chestnut ground, lighter spire, the aperture dark inside. These 

 characters, together with the white lip and total absence of 



