LAND SHELLS FEOM NEW GUINEA. 
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36. Sitala capillacea n. sp. 
(Fig. 9.) 
Shell conoid, thin, capillaceo-costulate, perforate, brown or light 
corneous ; whorls 6, rather convex, angled at the periphery, suture deep ; 
sculptured above with dense, oblique, delicate ribs which 
reach till the angle of the periphery, on the base faint 
growth lines and concentric, waved striae are visible with 
a microscope ; aperture a little oblique, semicircular. 
Length 3*47 — 3*58 mm., diam. 3*42—3*52 mm. 
German New Guinea : Sattelberg. 6 specimens. Sitala capillacea. 
37. Planispira simbangensis Kob. 
Planispira simbangensis Kobelt, Nachrichtsbl. Deutsch. Maiak. Ges., 30, p. 92 
(1898). 
German New Guinea : Simbang (Huon Golf). 
Fig. 9. 
38. Planispira purpurostoma Le Guill. 
Helix purpurostoma Le Guillou, Rev. zool., 1842, p. 141 ; Pfeiffer Monogr., 
I., p. 377; H. (Camaena) purpurostoma Tapparone Canefri, 1. c. p. 159; Brancsik, 
1. c. p. 224; Planispira (Cristigibha) papuana Möllendorff, Proc. Mal. Soc. London, 
I, p. 234, tab. 15, fig. 1 , 1 a (1895). 
German New Guinea : Erima. 
This species seems not to have been found again since described 
by Le Guillou. Tappaeone Canefei and Pilsbey do not know it and in 
the latter’s Manual (vol. YI, p. 177) only the original description is 
reproduced. The species is represented, however, in the collection of 
the Hungarian National Museum by some specimens, collected by the 
late Samuel Fenichel, and identified by Beancsik (1. c.). These specimens 
originate from the Finisterre region in German New Guinea and agree 
with Le Guillou’s description in every respect, therefore the identifica¬ 
tion is by all means correct. Beancsik 1. c. described also a variety of 
this species under the name var. albescens differing from the typical 
form by having no dark band on its periphery. Mollendoeff’s Planispira 
papuana is identical with Beancsik’s var. albescens. In Biro’s collection 
only one specimen is present. 
Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. IX. 
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