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MOLLUSCAN NOTES. U.' 



By HroH C. Fültox. 



Bead lltli June, 1915. 



'So. 7. PlANISPIEA agADEIFASCÜTA, GüllloU. 



Owing to the Variation in size of the shell, the dentiole on basal 

 poi'tioa o£ peristome, and width of colour-bands, this species has 

 leoeived several names. The synonvmy is as follows : — 

 1842. Helix quadrifasciata, Guillou, Kev. Zool., p. 141. 

 1864. H. iustricta, ilarts., Aloiiatsbericht. Berl. Akad., p. 268. 

 1867. H. quadrifasciata, var. edentata, ilarts., Ost. Zool. Landschn., 



p. 300, pl. xvi, fig. 5. 

 1902. Plauispira kendigiana, Eolle, xfachr. deutsch. Malak. Ges., 



p. 189. 



1902. P. rollei, ilölldfp., Naohr. deutsch. ICalak. Ges., p. 189. 



1903. P. quadrifasciata, var. halmaherica, Gude, Journ. llalac, vol. x, 



p. 48, pl. iii, fig. 2. 



The instricta, Jlarts. (afterwards changed to quadrifasciata, var. 

 edentula, ilarts.), has only a slight swelling at the usual place of the 

 denticle. P. rollei, ilölldff., is a small specimen, otherwise typical. 

 P. kendigiana, Rolle, is simply a variety witb wide bands. P. quadri- 

 fasciata, vai'. halmaherica, Gude, was described from a specimen with 

 three colour-bands only, otherwise it appears to be quite typical. 



Xo. 8. — Helix xodifera, Pfr. 

 Tbis species is evideutly the large form of Papiiina grata. Mich., 

 as recently collected by the brothers ileek at iluswar Island, Durch 

 New Guinea, and described by me as P. grata, var. magna. The 

 absence of the usual oolour-band in Pfeiffer's example is probably 

 owing to loss of its periostracum, sirice speoiraens betöre me demon- 

 strate that the colour is only in the periostracum, which is of a 

 deciduous character. Although ilichaud's figure does not show the 

 oharacteristio columellar nodale or swelling, he notes in his description, 

 " au bas de la columelle se trouve une petite dent." 

 I83I. Caracolla grata, ilich., in Guerin's ilag. Zool., pl. ix, figs. 1-3. 

 1860. Helix nodifera, Pfr., Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 21, pl. ii. fig. 4; 



JTovitates Conchologicte, p. 166, pl. xlv, figs. 7-8. 

 1891. Papuina grata. Mich., Tryon's ITan. Conch., vol. vii, p. 35, 



pl. xiii, figs. 50-1. 

 1910. P. grata, var. magna, Fulton, Ann. Mag. Xat. Hist., ser. viii, 



vol. v, p. 370. 



No. 9. 



In my note No. 6, in the Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. xi, p. 241, 1915, 

 I stated that I had been unable to find a description of Helicina 



' Continued from p. 241. 



