NEW LAND SHELLS — HEDLEY. 
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DESCRIPTIONS of NEW LAND SHELLS, with NOTES on 
KNOWN SPECIES. 
By Charles Hedley, Conchologist. 
(Plate xxviii.) 
Papuina mayana, sp . nov . 
(PI. xxviii., figs. 10, 11). 
Shell imperforate, ovately conical, periphery rounded, glossy. 
Colour — the base and a subsutural stripe in the lower three whorls 
are ochre-yellow, contrasting sharply with a broad dark chocolate 
band which intervenes, the upper whorls are slate. Whorls six, 
rounded, divided by an impressed suture. Sculpture oblique, 
regular, incremental lines are decussated by faint, spiral striations 
the latter only visible under the lens. Aperture very oblique, 
slightly descending, subrhombic ; lip a little reflected ; columella 
deeply entering, then straight, edged within, not truncate anteriorly 
but joining the basal lip at an angle ; a thin white callus spreads 
on the base. Major diameter 22, minor 19 mm.; height 25 mm.; 
another specimen, 18, 22, 23*5 mm. 
The species has a general superficial resemblance to P. meta 
from the Solomons. The Australian Papuina are confined to the 
Torresian Region, of which they are characteristic inhabitants. 
At present there are known, P. macgillivrayi y Forbes ; P. bidwilli , 
Pfeiffer; P. cerea, Hedley; P. poiretiana y Pfeiffer; P. fucata, 
Pfeiffer; P. conscendens , Cox; and P. folicola , Hedley, The 
novelty is a near ally of P. poiretiana , from which it differs by 
colour, greater breadth, and absence of perforation. 
Loc. — Collected by Miss E. Hatfield at Rossville, on the Upper 
Annam River, near Cooktown, Queensland. 
It is named in honour of Dr. T. H. May, of Bundaberg, at the 
desire of Mr. Arthur Dean who presented the type specimens to 
the Trustees. 
Endodonta aculeata, sp. 710V. 
(PI. xxviii., figs. 1, 2, 3). 
Shell thin, depressed, spire level, umbilicus a quarter of the 
shell’s diameter. Colour pale ochraceous. Whorls three and a 
half, rounded. Sculpture oblique, thin, recurved, epidermal 
lamellae, in number about thirty, cross the last whorl from the 
suture to the umbilicus. Each lamella is produced at intervals 
into long, slender points, so arranged as to fall into four equi- 
distant spiral lines, one being on the base, one at the periphery, 
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