PAPU1NA. 121 



Queensland, Australia: Burnett River, in the tops of trees (Bid- 

 will). Miriam Vale, Warro, on leaves of trees in the scrub (Musson); 

 Maryborough (Hedley). 



Bulimus bidwilli Cox, Monogr. Australian Land Shells, p. 72, 

 pi. 13, f. 11 (1868). PFR., Monogr. Hel. Viv. viii, p. 147 

 HEDLEY, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, v, p. 64 (1888) Bulimus (?) 

 bidwilli Cox, HEDLEY & MUSSON, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 

 {2), vi, p. 557 (1892). Papuina folicola HEDLEY, Nautilus vii, p. 

 74 (1893) PILSBRY, Man. Conch, ix, p. 141. 



Not Papuina bidwilli Pfr., 1853. 



This species has the appearance of a Rachis, but is held by Hedley 

 to be a member of the conscendens group of Papuina. 



P. MACLEAYI (Brazier). PI. 4, figs. 66, 67, 68. 



Shell minutely perforated, ovate-conic, extremely thin and fragile, 

 translucent, corneous-brown. Surface shining, sculptured with fine, 

 slight growth-wrinkles, and faintly engraved traces of spiral lines. 

 Spire conic, the apex small, slightly obtuse, smooth, whorls 5^, quite 

 convex, the last inflated. Aperture ovate, slightly oblique ; outer 

 lip thin and simple, columellar lip rather broadly reflexed above, 

 nearly closing the umbilical chink. 



Alt. 12.5, diam. 8, longest axis of aperture 6.5 mill. 



Alt. 7^, breadth 4, length of aperture 4^ lines (Brazier). 



East side of Yule Island, British New Guinea, on trees in the wet 

 season, at their roots in crevices of coral in the dry (Brazier, type 

 locality for B. macleayi}; Mount Ernest Island, Torres Strait, on 

 small trees (Beddome, type locality for B. beddomei)', Thursday Id. 

 (Brazier). Also on the Australian mainland, Port Darwin, at 

 Fannie Bay (Edw. Spalding). 



Bulimus macleayi BRAZ., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales i, p. 108 

 (3876). TAPPARONE CANEFRI, Annali Mus. Civ. di Storia Nat. di 



Geneva, xix, p. 104, pi. 2, f. 16, 17 (1883) Bulimus beddomei 



BRAZIER, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales i, p. 127 (no description); 

 P. L. S. N. S. W. iv, p. 395, 1880. TATE, Trans, and Proc. and 

 Rep. Roy. Soc. S. Australia v, p. 50 (1882) HEDLEY, Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Queensl. v, p. 64 (1888); Proc. Linn. Soc'. N. S. Wales (2), 

 vi, p. 97 (1891). 



This species is evidently a member of the folicola group of Papuina. 

 B. beddomei was never formally described, but Mr. Brazier states 



