DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PAPUAN LAND SHELL — HEDLEY. 1 1 
It might here be mentioned that in 1887 Prof. Jeffrey Bell contri- 
buted a note* on the “Habitat of Peripatus leuchartii ,” wherein he 
mentions that previously the place of origin of this species was 
vaguely stated as “New Holland” and on the receipt of two 
specimens from Dr. E. P. Ramsay, of Sydney, gave the Queens- 
land scrubs, near Wide Bay, as the more precise locality. The 
error is perpetuated by Sedgwick, f who incidentally remarks, 
“ the finder’s name has not been communicated to me.” 
I would point out that the specimens referred to as coming 
from Wide Bay were collected by myself on April 3rd, 1887, 
when I obtained several examples under stones close to the 
Hospital and Acclimatisation Society’s Grounds, in Brisbane. 
These were handed to Dr. Ramsay, who sent two specimens of 
them to Prof. Bell for study. They were ultimately forwarded 
to Prof. Sedgwick for inclusion in his Monograph. 
Mr. Henry Tryon previously recorded J the finding of other 
examples from the same locality in conjunction with myself, but 
their identity with those mentioned by Sedgwick has not to my 
knowledge previously been made known. 
Mr. Chas. Hedley tells me that he found Peripatus under a 
log by the road-side at the altitude of 2,000 feet in 1889 at 
Cunningham’s Gap, South Queensland, and that this specimen 
was pronounced by Mr. Tryon, then of the Queensland Museum, 
to be P. leuchartii , which determination was no doubt correct. 
DESCRIPTION of a NEW PAPUAN LAND SHELL. 
By C. Hedley, Conchologist, 
Thersites septentrionalis, n. sp. 
Shell turbinate conic, narrowly perforate, large, solid, brownish- 
yellow with deep chocolate bands. A third of the base is 
occupied by a broad chocolate band whose outer margin reaches 
the insertion of the lip, a yellow peripheral zone of less width 
follows, a chocolate band as wide as the last and which becomes 
supersutural in the upper whorls, a narrow yellow, a wider 
chocolate, a narrow yellow, and a narrow subsutural chocolate 
# Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xx., 1887, p. 252. 
fQt. Journ. Micro. Sci., xxviii., 1888, p. 431. 
I Proc. Roy. Soc. Qd., iv., 1887, p. 78. 
