Hurrox.—On New Zealand Land Shells, 175 
PATULA BIANCA, N. 8. 
Shell minute, discoidal, widely umbilicated, finely ribbed; colour 
horny brown banded with darker. Spire flat, or slightly convex; whorls 4, 
slowly increasing, rounded, delicately ribbed; ribs about 55 in the tenth of 
an inch, the interstices striated; suture impressed; umbilicus broad, 
gradated; aperture slightly oblique, rotundly lunar; peristome thin, 
regularly arched; greatest diameter ‘1, least :09 inch. 
Hab, Greymouth (R. Helms). 
This species is allied to P. corniculum, but it is more finely ribbed, and 
the colours are different. 
PATULA TIMANDRA 
Shell small, isa. broadly umbilicated, distantly ribbed; colour 
brown, obscurely banded with paler. Spire flat, or slightly convex ; peri- 
phery rounded ; suture impressed; whorls 4-5, slowly increasing, rounded, 
delicately striated with growth-lines, and with distant ribs, which are 
sinuated on the upper surface near the periphery, and straight below ; ribs 
about 18 in the tenth of an inch; umbilicus very broad, perspective, 
gradated ; aperture slightly oblique, rotundly lunar; peristome simple, 
the margins approaching, forming more than three-fourths of a circle. 
Greatest diameter ‘12, least ‘10; height :05 inch. 
Hab. Auckland (Cheeseman). 
PATULA SYLVIA, N. 8. 
Shell minute, discoidal, umbilicated, obliquely ribbed: colour very pale 
horny with faint thin radiating bands of chestnut on the upper surface. 
Spire flat or slightly convex; whorls 5}, very slowly increasing, rounded, 
with delicate rather distant ribs which are very oblique on the upper sur- 
face, but transverse to the whorls on the lower surface; ribs about 18 in 
the tenth of an inch, the interstices rather strongly striated with growth 
lines; suture impressed; umbilicus rather wide, gradated; aperture 
slightly oblique, rotundly lunar; peristome thin, regularly arched, the 
upper margin advancing. Greatest diameter :12; least ‘1; height ‘06 
inch. 
Hab. Bealey (Dr. v. Haast); ; under logs in the beech forests. 
FRUTICICOLA ADRIANA, N. 8. 
Shell small, discoidal, narrowly umbilicated, finely ribbed ; colour pale 
horny with spots and angular streaks of chestnut. Spire flat; whorls 43, 
` slowly increasing, rounded, delicately ribbed; ribs about 50 in the tenth of 
an inch, the interstices reticulated; suture impressed; umbilicus narrow, 
but open; aperture slightly oblique, rotundly lunar ; peristome thin, regu- 
larly arched, the columellar margin slightly reflected. Greatest diameter 
16; least ‘14; height -07 inch. 
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