376 LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA OR ADJACENT ISLANDS, 
ac in typo, in apertura transmeantibus. Paries aperturalis pallide 
roseus. 
var. VIOLACEO-FLAVA. 
Prsecedenti statura forma et absentia sculpture similis, sed typo 
fasciis vicina. Superne atro-violacea, dehinc pallidior, denique 
late flava, fasciis 2 peripheries ornata3, supera latiore, suturali 
prope aperturam tantum conspicua, mox evanescenti. Paries 
aperturalis et pars ultimi infra purpureo tincta. 
Log. — "Tuom," probably in German New Guinea, or Bismarck 
Archipelago. From the same locality I received at the same 
time Helicina suprafasciaia, Sowerb} 7 . 
Shell imperforate, trochiform, rather thin. Spire conic, obtuse. 
Whorls less than 5, convex, regularly increasing, suture linear, 
simple; the last one large, rounded at the periphery. Sculpture 
faint, obsolete growth lines slightly decussated by fine crow T ded 
lines, spirally impressed above and below (where they become 
somewhat wavy and irregular), and obliquely running towards 
the aperture on the upper part of the last whorl. Surface more 
shining in the varieties, differing also from the type in being 
entirely smooth or nearly so, the only sculpture consisting in 
obsolete growth lines, and in colour. The whorls also appear to 
be a trifle more convex. Colour (in the type) greyish above, 
fading into milky white and finally into intense yellow on the last 
whorl; the latter is, on its middle, ornamented with two broad 
chestnut-black zones, the upper one extending on the penultimate 
whorl; painted besides with a finer sutural band of the same hue, 
also ascending on the penultimate. All these bands are con- 
spicuous in the interior of aperture. The latter is diagonal, 
shortly and abruptly deflected in front. Lip intense black, 
reflected, roundly beaked at the periphery, nexuous above, then 
dented without and somewhat tuberculate within. Columella 
broad, adherent to the base, very slightly tuberculous at the end 
on the inner edge. 
This interesting novelty belongs, like the following species, to 
the group of Papuina Tayloriana, Ad. and Reeve, but is desti- 
tute of any carina on the last whorl, and recalls to mind Papuina 
