INDEX TO THE LAND SHELLS OF VICTORIA. 
would suggest comparison with Helix georgiana, Quoy and Gaimard* 
from King George’s Sound, Western Australia; with Zonites walJceri, 
Gray, | collected 70 miles from Fort Macquarie, New South Wales, 
in company with P. atomata; with Helix capillacea, Ferassac,J col- 
lected by Peron at Port Jackson, New South Wales ; with Nanina 
fricata, Gould§, collected by Drayton in Illawarra, New South Wales; 
and with Helix gawleri, Brarfer|| from the Mount Lofty Range, 
South Australia. 
Genus Paryphanta, Albers, 1850. 
Paryphanta atramentaria, Shuttle worth. 
Nanina atramentaria , Shuttleworth. Mittheil. Naturf. Gesell. Bern, 
1852, p. 194. 
Id., Fischer, Notitiae malacol., II., 1877, p. 5, pi. i., f. 2. 
Helix atramentaria, Cox, Monogr. Austr. Land Shells, 1868, p. 5, 
pi. in., f. 2. 
Helicarion atramentaria, Ten. Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W. 
III., 1879, p. 124, pi. xii., f. 2, 2 a. 
Id., Tate, Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., IV., 1882, p. 75. 
Habitat.— Port Phillip (Shuttleworth), Mount Arnold and Bendigo 
(Cox), Fernshaw (late), and Dandenong Range (Tenison Woods). 
Paryphanta compacta, sp. nov. 
(Plate I., Figs. 3, 4, 5.) 
Shell depressedly globose, narrowly perforate, thin, whorls four. 
Colour brown, deepening on the last whorl to black and on the 
second whorl passing into straw yellow. The epidermis, in which 
the colour resides, is thick and very glossy. Sculpture : On the 
earlier whorls are oblique Wrinkles, on the later a few irregular 
f + i V meS °u CUr ' ., Sl ! tllre dce P I P impressed. Spire slightly ele- 
vated, base well rounded, umbilicus a narrow perforation Anerture 
very oblique, s ightly descending above, sinuate at the periphery! 
left insertion a little reflected over the perforation. Margins united 
r H,i! t ! ie tlir °f is purple and finel .y granulated. 
Ids callous lining does not extend to the very edge of the anerture 
but leaves a narrow epidermal margin. ‘ e aperture, 
Maj. diam., 24 mm, min. diam., 19 mm. ; height 17 mm. 
ype presented to the Australian Museum bv Dr J C Fox 
“ d l briS ^ at Sniithe rs 
Krrrfe , c °z ted * Mr - 
namely :-Maj. diam. 20 mm m * dim ^ 7 b * U 5? 
mm„ and by the spire whorls being almost fll ’ ; helght > 14 
et Deslmyes, Hist, XaLMdC Telr^o x ' ’ 1 26 ~ 30 - Id - » Ferussao 
Proc. Med. Soc., i., 1894, p. 87. i„ p. 88, pi. 84, f. 3-4. Vitrea georgiana, Smith, 
t Gray. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1834, p. 63 
*4 *•* i>'- «. <■ o (»» d. to) . u„ „„ te , 
§ Gould. U.S. Expl. Exped., xii lsw n on i , ^ 
II Brazier. Proc. Zool. Soc,., 1872 V’ 618 32 ’ !?!' Tw f ' ‘ 1 I b ' 
Conch. Cab. Agnatha, 1903, p. 37, pi. 7, ’f. 12-14.' jUda Sawlen, Kobelt and Moellendorff, 
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