110 LAND SHELLS OF VICTORIA 



Family RHYTIDIDAE 

 Genus PBOLESOPHANTA Iredale, 1933. 



Prolesophanta dyeri (Petterd). 



1879. Helix dyeri Petterd, Mon. Tas. Land Shells, p. 40. 



1930. Paryphanta dyeri Pett. Gabriel, P.R.S. Vie., XLIII, pt. 1, (N.S.), p. 71. 



1933. Prolesophanta dyeri (Pett.), Iredale, Pec. Aust. Mus., xix, p. 40. 



1938. Id,, Iredale, Aust. Zool., ix, p. 116. 



Size of Type. — Maj. diam., 3-5; min., 2-5; alt., l-5mm. 



Localities. — Tarraville, South Gippsland (T. Worcester and C. 

 Oke) ; Belgrave, Ferntree Gully, Hall's Gap Grampians (C. 

 Oke) ; Olinda Falls, Splitter's Falls Lome, Mt. Dandenong (Self) ; 

 Warburton (F. E. Wilson). 



Observations. — A small, glossy shell, easy of recognition. Trans- 

 ference to the above genus is necessary. Iredale (toe. cit.) regards 

 this as incorrectly placed under Paryphanta remarking "The 

 spire is a little elevated, the apical whorls roughened, the surface 

 consists of fine radial growth lines only, the mouth is somewhat 

 oblique, and there is no umbilicus." Not uncommon, being widely 

 distributed throughout the state. This is a moist-loving species 

 found nestling in moss {Iihizoyonimti novaehoUandiae Brid.), 

 and the Hepatic (Blyttia spinosa Gotch). Type from banks of 

 Distillery Creek, near Launceston, Tasmania. 



Genus DELOS Hutton, 1904. 



I)elos nelsonensis Brazier. 



1871. Helix (Hyalinia) nelsonensis Brazier, P.Z.S. Lond., (1870), p. 661. 

 1871. Helix {Faryplianta) fulgetriim Cox, in Leg-rand Coll. Mon. Tas. Land 



Shells, sp. 31, pi. 1, %. 11. 

 1894. Rhenea nelsonensis (Brazier). Suter, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., (6), xm, 



p. 64. 

 1909. Dclos nelsonensis (Brazier). Petterd and Hedley, Rec. Aust. Mus., vn, 



r> 288 

 1921. Id., May, Check-list Moll. Tas., p. 92, No. 904. 

 1923. Id., May, 111. Index Tas. Shells., pi. 42, fig-. 14. 



Size.— Maj. diam., 15; min., 11; alt,, 06 of an inch. 



Localities.— Mount Higginbotham (C. Oke) ; Mount Hotham 

 (C. Oke). 



Observations. — A thin, polished shell belonging to a genus hith- 

 erto unrecorded from Victoria. The type locality of the species is 

 south Tasmania, but it is generally distributed throughout the 

 island. Iredale (loc. cit.) notes that a little variation exists in 

 the northern shells and figures a subspecies abitens which is 

 larger but with a narrower umbilicus, the type from Launceston 

 measuring 4mm. in breadth and 2mm in height. Iredale has 



