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Land and Feeshwateb Shells feom Centeal Atjstealia. 



Helix peeikflata, Ffeifer, hitherto only recorded from the 

 MacDonnell Eanges, " was found near the road crossing of 

 Mann's Creek, 28 miles north of Peake," J. Chandler. 



Helix cyetopleuea, Pfr. — MacDonnell Eanges {Kempe). 



Helix, n. sp. — Allied to PhilUpsiajia, Angas, from which it 

 differs in its more elevated spire, in the plicate sculpturing being 

 less regular and not so sharply defined, and in the surface 

 being coarsely squamosely granulated. MacDonnell Eanges 

 {Xempe) . 



Melania Balonnensis, Conrad. — This is the species inhabit- 

 ing the Lower Murray Eiver. Mr. Kempe has collected it in 

 the E. Einke, MacDonnell Eanges. 



New Soitth Austealian Maeine Shells, collected at 

 Fowler's Bay by Mrs. A. Eichards : — Erato lachryma, G-ray 

 in Sowerby's Conch. 111. f. 48 ; Tasmanian examples of the 

 same species have been submitted to me for determination by 

 Mr. Petterd. Mangelia 3Iereditli(B, T. AVoods, of Tasmania; 

 Trophon n. sp., the test of a pale lilac colour. Two species 

 of Apli/sia, the first record of the existence of the genus in 

 South Australian waters. B. Tate. 



Amphipeplea papteacea, Tate. — The species Limncea papy- 

 racea was founded on characters presented by the shell only. 

 See Trans. Eoy. Soc. S.A., vol. iii., p. 103; but the 

 characters afforded by the snail recently taken alive at the 

 Eeedbeds, Adelaide, by Mr. Stirling Smeaton, demand its 

 transference to the genus Amphipeplea. The mantle lobes 

 entirely cover the shell ; the foot is so voluminous that it 

 cannot be wholly withdrawn into the wide-mouthed shell ; the 

 egg-masses are circular in outline, about one-fourth of an inch 

 in diameter, depressed, the exterior somewhat coriaceous ; the 

 egg-capsules are about forty in number. The snail has the 

 same habits as the European A. glutinosa. Several species of 

 Australian pond-snails have been described as of the genus 

 Amphipeplea, but in no case had the animal been observed. The 

 species under review is therefore the first reliable record of 

 the occurrence of the genus in Australia. A. papyracea is now 

 known at two widely separated localities in this province — 

 Penola in the South-East, and Eeedbeds near Adelaide. — i?. 

 Tate. 



Additions to the Coleopteeous Eauna of South Aus- 

 tealia, determined by M. Eauvel, Caen, Erance, from specimens 

 collected bv Mr. J. (J. O. Tepper:— 



