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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Sab.— Collected by Mr. A. Guillianetti, on Mt. Scratchley with 
the preceding and with Rhytida globosa , which latter has been 
only previously recorded from Mt. Victoria. 
This shell, of which my single example may not be adult, 
appears allied to( Zonites) subfulvus, Gassies, from New Caledonia, 
and to Conulus paramattensis, Co&, from N.S.W., but is more 
depressed than either, smaller, and with a whorl less. A near 
ally is C. starkei , .Brazier, which however has much coarser 
sculpture, and has also more whorls and larger size, two differences 
which perhaps balance one another. It belongs to a group which 
Tryon and others rank under Conulus. Thinking it improbable 
that this Pakeartic genus extends so far, I prefer to temporarily 
locate it in Sitalct, to some species of which it bears a likeness, 
and which has in another form been shown to reach New Guinea. 
Attention to kindred small forms and to the literature devoted to 
their elucidation (!) shows how much definitions are required for 
Conulus , Microcystis, Troclionanina , and other groups. 
While on the subject of land shells from British New Guinea, 
it may be mentioned that the unfiguered Succinea strubelli , 
Kobelt, and S. papuana, Strubell,* from Cloudy Mountains and 
Lome Range, North of Orangerie Bay, B.N.G., are most probably 
synonymous with Succinea simplex , Pfeiffer. In stating that his 
is the first record of the genus in Papua, Herr Strubell shows 
that he has failed to compare his supposed new species with one 
already illustrated and identified from New Guinea. f 
Another addition to the known fauna of British New Guinea has 
lately come to light in specimens of Atopos prismatica , Tapparone, 
Ganefri, now in the Australian Museum, collected on the Fly 
River, by W. W. Froggatt, during the Expedition of the Geo- 
graphical Society of Australasia in 1885. It was first recorded 
from Sorong I., Dutch New Guinea, and then from an island of 
Torres Straits, Q., and the Huon Gulf, German New Guinea.! 
* Nachr. dent. Malak. Gesell, Oct. 1895, p. 152. 
t Froc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), vii., 1892, pp. 100, 691-2, pis. xii., f. 82; 
xlii., ff. 34-37. 
x Simroth, Zeits. Wiss. Zool., lii., 1891, p. 594. 
