378 LAND SHELLS FROM NEW GUINEA OR ADJACENT ISLANDS, 
This very pretty and interesting Papuina is evidently very 
close to Mr. Brazier's Helix Gorenduensis (Proc. Linn. Soc. New 
South Wales, 3rd April, 1886, p. 841), and I first thought they 
might be identical. However, Papuina Kuba.ryi has not 5 whorls, 
and, judging from Mr. Brazier's description, also differs in several 
other particulars. No mention is made by the latter of the 
disposition of the small spots, which, in Gorenduensis, are 
"pinkish," not grey nor blackish towards the aperture. Mr. 
Brazier says his shell is " flesh-tinted a cream colour," while 
Kubaryi is yellowish cream -colour, reddish-pink behind the 
peristome. The aperture, in this, is intense black on the lip, 
violet-purple on the parietal margin, and purple-brown within the 
throat, while in Gorenduensis, "the interior is bright pink, the 
peristome blackish-purple," and the " margins joined with a thin 
pink callous entering spirally into the interior of the aperture." 
I therefore suppose the two species are really different from each 
other. 
4. Hemiplecta granigera, n.sp. 
Testa subsolida, depressa, orbiculata, aperte umbilicata, oblique 
confertim striata et undique minute spiraliter granulata (granulis 
in ultimo validioribus, circa umbilicum magis obsoletis), vix 
nitida, sordide fusca, medio obtuse angulata, infra angulum zona 
obscuriore per testam conspicua diffusaque cincta, subtus pallidior. 
Spira depresso-conoidea, obtusa. Anfractus 6 subconvexi, sutura 
parum profunda, simplici; ultimus haud descendens, superne et 
praesertim infra angulum medianum obtusum pallidum convexus. 
Apertura ampla, obliqua, lunata, transverse subovalis. Peristoma 
simplex, acutum, rectum, marginibus remotis, callo tenui nitido 
concolore junctis, margine columellari late arcuato, vix expansius- 
culo, unibilicum (pro genere magnum, anfractus omnes ostenden- 
tem) nullomodo obtegente. 
Diam. maj. 43, min. 35, alt. 22 mill. 
Loc. — (German?) New Guinea. 
This species should perhaps be referable to Rhysota, but is 
more nearly related, from the general appearance of the shell, to 
