122 PANDA. 



that it differs from B. macleayi only in being a little smaller, thinner, 

 pale yellowish-brown irregularly streaked with darker yellow, ob- 

 lique, narrow lines, the umbilicus smaller. 



Figures 66, 67 are from Tapparone Canefri's illustration of the 

 typical form from Yule Island, fig. 68 being drawn from a specimen 

 from Mt. Ernest Island, supplied by Dr. J. C. Cox. The type is 

 in the Macleay Museum. 



Genus PANDA Albers. 



Man. Conch, ix, p. 163 ; viii, p. 293 ; vi, p. 74. 



The amplification of the limits of this genus by Mr. Hedley and 

 myself, renders further treatment of the group necessary, to find place 

 for the Bulimoid forms. 

 P. FALCONERI (' Reeve ' Gray). Vol. vi, p. 75. 



Helicophanta falconeri Reeve MSS., GRAY, P. Z. S., 1834, p. 63. 

 Helix falconari REEVE, Conch. Syst. ii, p. 69 (1842). 



P. maconelli Reeve (Vol. vi, p. 76) is considered a variety of fal- 

 coneri by Hedley, who has illustrated the connecting links (Rec. 

 Austr. Mus. ii, p. 30, pi. 4, 1892). Dr. Cox has illustrated the liv- 

 ing animal of maconelli) Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), vi, p. 

 570, pi. 20, fig. 1. 



See vol. viii, p. 293 for other varieties of this species. 



P. ATOMATA (Gray). PI. 5, figs. 81, 82. 



Shell imperforate, oblong-conic, rather thin but solid. Yellow 

 with fine, crowded, interrupted or waved reddish lines, and usually 

 some more conspicuous blotches, rarely uniform reddish. Surface 

 smoothish, somewhat shining, sculptured with slight growth-wrinkles 

 and very fine, close, undulating spiral striae. Apex obtuse ; nearly 

 two nepionic whorls with close spiral series of small granules. 

 Whorls 5 to 6, convex, the last oblong. 



Aperture ovate, purplish, fleshy or bluish tinted within with some 

 pearly luster; but slightly oblique; outer lip simple and blunt; col- 

 umella subvertical, a little arcuate, reflexed and adnate above. 



Alt. 58, diam. 29, longest axis of aperture 32 mill. 



Alt. 44, diam. 23, longest axis of aperture 25.5 mill. 



New South Wales, Australia : Near Scone (Cox, Hedley); 70 miles 

 from Port Macquarie (Cunningham); Ash Island and Hexham, Hun- 

 ter River (Scott); Port Stephens; Manning River (King). 



