136 PETTERD : NEW TASMANIAN SHELLS. 



allied to a fossil form from the Miocene beds at 

 Aldinga Bay, S. A. Dedicated to my friend, Dr. 

 Higgins, F.L.S. 



Aclis mi era n. sp. Shell minute, subulate, thin, white, 

 pellucid, shining ; whorls 6, rounded ; aperture ovate, 

 somewhat small. Long, i mill., lat. ^ mill. 



Habitat, North coasts and Isles in Bass's Straits. 

 A very small pellucid shell, often met with in 

 shell sand. 



Eulima vitrea n. sp. Shell subulate, translucid, very 

 highly polished, vitreous ; whorls 9, flattened, margin- 

 ate at the suture, an indistinct band on last whorl ; 

 aperture narrowly pyriform, very acute behind. Long. 

 3 mill., lat. I mill. ^ 



Habitat, Tamar Heads. 



The coloration is rather variable, sometimes there 

 are two indistinct bands, and one example is totally 

 without coloration. 



6. Chemnitzia Beddomei n. sp. Shell elongately turret- 

 ed, milky-white, opaque, shining ; whorls 8, rounded, 

 with many rounded small ribs, interstices equalling 

 ribs in width, ribs obsolete at base of last whorl ; 

 aperture oval, labrum thin ; suture very much im- 

 pressed. Long. 5 mill, lat. i^ mill. 



Habitat, North-west coast. 



Much like a Farthenia, but without a tooth. Not 

 by any means rare, but often in poor state of preserva- 

 tion. 



Trophon laminata n. sp. Shell ovately fusiform, 

 reddish-chestnut, turreted, whorls 6, girded transversely 

 with sub-raised ribs, longitudinally ornamented with 

 waved scabrous lirse, which pass over the ribs and 



I.e., iv., Jan., 1884. 



