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Diam., greatest, 17 ; least, 14; height, 8 mill. 
Hab., New Zealand. Possession Island, Torres Strait (Ince). 
Note. —In the Mon. Austr. Land Shells, Dr. Cox has placed the 
foregoing shell among the synonyms of H. Delessertiana which he thus 
describes at page 61 : 
Helix Delessertiana, Le Guill. 
Ilelix Delessertiana , Le Guill., Revue Zool., 1842, p. 138. Helix 
Taranalci, Gray, M.SS. and Pfr., (as above). Helix Torresiana, 
Homb. et Jacq., Voy. au Pole Sud. 
Shell umbilicated, depressed, rather solid, rather shining, closely, 
regularly, and rather strongly striately ribbed, either white, or rather 
glossy, or pale horny; spire slightly prominent, suture rather impressed ; 
whorls 5, slightly convex, the last convex and rather tumid, scarcely 
descending in front; base with ribs smoother than above, umbilicus 
moderate, deep ; aperture lunately-ovate, slightly broader than high ; 
peristome thin, expanded, white within, margins approximating, colu- 
mellar margin scarcely expanded above, and slightly reflected. 
Diam., greatest, 0-70 ; least, 0-57 ; height, 0-35 of an inch. 
Hab., Islands of Torres Strait, from Nogo Island, on the south, to 
Warrior Island, on the north (MacGillivray). 
Bulimus, Scopoli. 
Shell oblong or turreted; aperture with unequal longitudinal margins, 
toothless or dentate; columella entire, revolute externally or nearly 
simple; peristome simple or expanded. Animal like Helix. —Woodward. 
BULIMUS (PLACOSTYLUS) BOYINUS, Brugui6re. 
Bulimus bovinus, Brug., Coll., No. 368 ; Petit Journ. Conch., 1853 ; 
Crosse, Journ. Conch., vol. xii., 1864 ; Pfr., M.H.Y., vol. 6, p. 82, 
No. 721. Bulimus Shongii, Lesson, Voy. do la Coq.; Pfr., M.H.Y., 
vol. 2, p. 140. Bulimus auris-bovina, Petit—Crosse. 
Shell imperforate, oblongly-conical, solid, rugosely-striated, covered 
with an olivaceous-rufous epidermis, banded by whitish at the suture ; 
spire conical, rather acute ; whorls 7, convex, the last shorter than the 
spire, sub-compressed at the base; columella arcuated; aperture oblongly 
oval, within cherry-red, sub-caniculated at the baso ; peristome very 
thick, armed at the base with a moderate tuberculous callus, margins 
united by a callus, columellar margin dilated, prominent. 
Length, 67; diam., 27. Aperture, long, 28 ; broad, 13 mill. 
Hab., New Zealand. 
BULIMUS NOYOSEELANDICUS, Pfeiffer. 
Bulimus Novoseelandicus, Pfr., Malak. Bl., viii., 1861, p. 149; Crosse, 
Journ. Conch., xii., 1864 ; Pfr., M.H. V., vol. 6, p. 83, No. 722. 
Shell imperforate, ovately oblong, solid, irregularly rugosely striated, 
fulvous-brown, occasionally streaked with chestnut; spire ovately-conical, 
