1875.] MR. BRAZIER ON NEW SHELLS FROM QUEENSLAND. 31 
W. van Musschenbroek (Zool. Gart. 1875, p. 29) as Diphyllodes 
gulielmi III. Dr. Meyer observed :— 
** Notwithstanding there are more points of resemblance between 
the new species and Diphyllodes speciosa and D. respublica than 
between it and Cicinnurus regius, some features immediately remind 
one of the latter, e.g. the red colour and structure of the glossy 
feathers of the upper parts, the webless tail-shafts, at least at the 
beginning, and chiefly the similar fan, formed by elongated, broad 
and metallic-green-edged feathers, on the sides of the breast, not 
quite but nearly of the same colour and size as in Cicinnurus regius. 
This fan has been hitherto known to exist only in the latter species, 
except as regards the homologous organization of the large Ypima- 
chus speciosus. 
* Diphyllodes gulielmi III. has nearly the same-shaped crest, 
inserted on the neck, as Diphyllodes speciosa; but the crest seems 
to be somewhat smaller, and the colour of it differs from that of the 
latter species, as well as all other colours of the upper surface of the 
two birds, whereas the form and colour of the bill appear to be very 
similar in the two species. The new bird shows nothing of the broad 
line of iridescent feathers extending down from the chin over the 
breast, and nothing of the light-brown feathers of the shoulders and 
of the neck occurring in Diphyllodes speciosa. 
* Diphyllodes gulielmi III. reminds one of D. respublica in the 
shape of the green velvet feathers of the breast, and especially in the 
shape of the two elongated tail-shafts, with the single difference that 
these are webbed in Diphyllodes respublica from the beginning, and 
that they do not project so far as in Diphyllodes gulielmi III. ; but 
the breadth of the webs agrees. The colour of the web is between 
that of the button of Crczrnurus regius, which is more of a green, 
and that of the web of Diphyllodes speciosa, which is more of a blue. 
* From this short comparison with the allied species, it follows that 
Diphyllodes gulielmi III. is a new species with very characteristic 
features, not to be confounded for a moment with any other hitherto 
known. These characteristic features are chiefly the shape of the 
elongated tail-shafts, with their web, the reddish colours of nearly 
all the upper parts, the violet-coloured belly, and the fan-like tufts 
at the sides of the breast.” 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Descriptions of ten new Species of Shells from the Collec- 
tion of Mr. Charles Coxen, of Brisbane, Queensland. By 
Joun Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 
[Received December 15, 1874.] 
(Plate IV.) 
1. Hevrx (Hapra) MouRILYANI, sp. nov. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 
Shell narrowly perforated, depressedly globose, thin, finely striated, 
