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ON SOME NEW OR HITHERTO LITTLE KNOWN 
LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA OR 
ADJACENT ISLANDS. 
By C. F. Ancey, Administrateur-ad joint, Dra-el-Mizan, 
Algeria. 
(Communicated by C. Nedley.) 
(Plate xxvi.) 
Some time ago I received from a German dealer, under probably 
unpublished names, the following land shells belonging to the 
Papuan fauna. Although the exact localities of most of them 
are unknown, they are, I think, from the German possessions of 
New Guinea. 
1. Papuina Hedleyi, E. A. Smith. 
(Kg- 1.) 
Helix {Geotrochus) Hedleyi, Smith, Journ. of Conchology, Vol. 
vii. 1892, p. 72, = Helix Oanefriana, Dohrn, Cat. Staudinger 
(unpublished).* 
I take the opportunity of giving a figure of this little known 
and very remarkable form from a specimen in my possession. 
Smith's description applies perfectly well to it, and the dimensions 
given are just the same. My unique specimen appears, however, 
to be of a darker colour, and the aperture is dark within; the 
tuberculous columella is stained with pale violet or white in this 
example, and the infra-sutural line is conspicuous in the penulti- 
mate whorl as well as on the last, but fades on the upper ones. 
I failed to detect any spiral impressed lines on the surface of the 
* This synonymy is supported by Sykes. Journal of Malacology IV. 
p. 51 [C.H.] 
