Invert 594 L517 REES _BELLT Sw: SCONE -N AUSTRALIAN THOLOGY PHILATELY IBLIOGRAPRY RI AND i Ex 4 ae i ae Sn. : ’ ee nts cade + — A 4 ‘é te ‘ 4 LESLIE ADS ACP alice ? Gany 4 Thy 2p comnplatel fivat aoe ars beara do Glhetin— ; nea exact€a ero aclinwiolalers IGs§ erlleAcon~ 5] Ae wk (Pre. R. Zoot. Soe Nsw 1956-57: 58-61). (pee pote [acolale 195% 180 Ag DS peeenber 200Kc. 7 3/ /Vo/ COLLECTIONS Sect SY ON OGRA REE 5 ce SY Wes Sg oF RO y cP yy TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS, WW. LEGRAND. . ; ELIZABETH-STREET, HOBART TOWN, TASMANIA. | 1871. SEERA GB | a The following pages contain a first attempt at a Catalogue of our Land Shells; the time has not yet arrived for a complete Mono- graph. The time and labour expended in collecting materials for the | present Catalogue have been such as only those who have been engaged in such researches can appreciate. The habitats may be strictly relied on ; in most instances I have either collected the shells myself, or received them direct from the places recorded. I am now directing my attention to the Lake District, where I believe much remains to be done. Supplements will be published as materials accumulate. I have to thank Dr. Cox for descriptions, and also for the plates, which were executed under his direction and at his expense. Mr. Brazier has supplied descriptions of ten new species. Mr, Stephens, Mr. C. Gould, and other gentlemen, whose names appear in the descriptions, have supplied specimens. Mr. Morton Allport has also taken great interest in the matter, and Mr. Ronald Gunn has rendered me valuable assistance in determining the habitats of the Northern species. I have made some progress with the Fluviatile species, and hope to publish the first part in the course of the present year. W. L. June, 1871. ————EE— INDEX. Species, Species. Arropre. 52. » Kingi Brasier 52 BULIMUS. », lampra Pfr. 6 », Dufresni Leach 1. ,», Launcestonensis ,, Lasmanicus Pfr. 2. Reeve 8 Caryoves (Bulimus) 1. », LeGrandi Coa. 9 Cuaropa 46. 48. 49. 50.20. 21, ? lamproides. 458 7 Cam2NA 19. » Margatensis ... 54 Conutus 39. »» medianus % 19 Discus 2, 3. 5. 9, 11.14. 17. 3) marchianez : 25 23. 25. 27. 28. 30. 32. 35. », Minima 10 40. 41, 55. 57.61. 62. 33. y> mixta... 38 HELIX. ay Mortis. 5 a : 17 »» Allporti Cox. 18 », Nelsonensis Brazier 44 ,, Atkinsoni rts 62 », neglecta xn 47 ,, Austrinus ... 22 ,, Onslowi sa: 46 » Agnewi or 27 “,, Officeri Coz. +57 ”” Alexandra Yr aha m 7 a3¢ e2 44 sh otter os me > : oe ~ ed sede i ot SPRe - Cree . a mre t . | - dria} Uh ope MTR an eT is ee P "7 ie — 7 J ; $ Be fc el Rig Uh Pay yee — ™ « bet m : 7 = - | tke 3 ri “fy hie i, A a i Pv eR IMT . ° ™ — ' AZ Ps ~ ’ * iVae tu ‘ * : y : = 0010.0" 3 =e |! ’ r ’ = i fs : rt ; Wee Py oi he : be] 2 , " ‘a As 4 * 4 ai. ? A * - ¢ ‘ ON OR tt Sts Wee * . LOR * Ne Tey P : tye on ta, es . 7 +f or Pur ‘ ‘* : nt HELIX. 6. Herrx. (Patula) nampra. Pfr., Pro, Zool. Soc., 1854, p. 53. — Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 1295. Cox, Mon., 1868,p. 28.P]. X. Fig. 9, Shell umbilicated, convexly-depressed, thin, horny, translucent, very glossy, with fine arcuate rib-like striw, from dark green to deep greenish chest-nut; spire small, conyex, obtuse ; whorls 4, quickly increasing, last dépréseeal expanded outwardly, not descending in front; base smoother, bright greenish-yellow ; umbilicus about ith of Wetldiameber: ; aperture lunately-oval, nearly diagonal ; a __ peristome simple, thin, straight, margins converging, columellar ) _ margin very slightly reflexed above. ~"* 7 kh Tamia greatest 0:90 ; least 0°70 ; height 0°30 of an inch. Habitat. Upper St. Patrick’s River.— Gunn: ™ gf A remarkably glossy species, occasionally of a uniform ano green. Sag —Cox. ae .. 7. Hewix (Patula) tamprorpes. Cox, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1867. Mon., 1868. p, 28. PIX. Fig. 13. Shell umbilicated, conyexly-depressed, thin, closely and irregularly striately ribbed, above scarcely Shining, below more so, horny- pe, paler beneath ; spire small, slightly conyex, obtuse; whorls 4, quickly increasing, last not descending, depressed aboye, beneath convex, bluntly angular ; aperture oblique, lunately-rounded ; peris- tome simple, thin, margins converging, right straight, angular in front, columellar margin arched, neither dilated nor reflexed. “ Diameter, greatest 0°57 ; least 0°50 ; height 0°22 of an inch. Habitat, N.W. coast of Tabrinnigees 6 North-west Bay.—Sproule- Closely allied to H. Zampra, but differing i in being more coarsely seulp. tured, and wanting the extreme polish of that s species, besides being obtusely carinated, and haying the aperture. angular ar iernnly « s- i. — Cox. Still nearer to ZZ, ruga, the principal om 4; size.— W. L. “— 7 ie 48 HELIX. 8 Hexrx (Videna) Launcestonensis. Reeve, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1852 p. 31. Pl, XIII. Fig. 11, Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 968. Cox, Mon., 1868, p. 31. Pl, VIL. Fig. 4,4 a. Shell umbilicated, conoid, solid, opaque, not shining, finely granulated and closely covered above with wrinkled and granular elevated ridges, and spiral lines of various sizes, variegated with yellowish, green and black; spire broadly-conical, rather obtuse; whorls 5, very slightly convex, slowly increasing, last acutely keeled, sud- denly descending in front; base convex, very smooth, shining deep black, with a very narrow yellow line under the periphery, sometimes wanting, and a broad bright yellow band beneath ; umbilicus rather large, perspective ; aperture very oblique, lu- nately-elliptical ; peristome somewhat simple, margins converging, right slightly curved, then a strong sinuativn in front, columel- lar margin slightly curved, moderately thickened, and slightly Diameter, greatest 1°30; least 1-20 ; height 0°65 of an inch. Habitat. On St. Patrick’s River, and generally North - east of Launceston.— Gunn. ‘I have met with H. Launcestonen- sis on the southern slopes of Mount Victoria, in myrtle forests at the roots of trees—also abundantly upon the basaltic land, and dense stringy gum forests in Scott’s New Forest. If. Gunn also obtained it frequently from the vicinity of Mount Barrow to the best of my recollection, so that you may consider it’s range as extending over the whole of the dense forest landof the North- east angleof the Island—I have never seen it elsewhere,’”—(, Gould. ———< ii joann - G04 = vilatemg bua , -antieoongn! DL divw teae ove de wheel sliiyct ef airtel ¥ duels Yo bon Lual o tiered of: ogi. vind osle wou. SS J2s005 woh a ffowd ai adic: werd taool/ Yo vile oft Acct i wheees ya cog wae «doe od: du bead tewe seek oft et Su a Niweale rT wayet Teo wel saved ee HELIX. 9, Hexrx, (Discus) Lz Grann1. Cox. Mon. 1868, p. 23, Pl. XII. Fig, 7. Shell openly umbilicated, depressly orbicular, rather irregularly, closely and sharply striated, reddish-brown; spire flat, but not excayated in the centre; suture impressed, whorls 4}, flattened and slanting towards the suture, last tumid, not descending in front ; umbilicus widely open, freely exposing the whorls, aperture round, lip simple, thin, margins closely approachiug, columellar margin not reflected at the base. : ° Diameter, greatest 0°13 ; least ; 0°12 height 0-07 of an inch. Habitat. Mount Wellington.—J/asters. Brown’s River.— Hail. Closely allied to and resembling HZ. tuloidea. 10. Hexix, (Hyalina) minima. Cox, Mon. 1868, p, 10, Pl. XII. * (Eigen Shell broadly umbilicated, discoid, shining, yellowish-horny, very finely striated above, smooth at the base; whorls 5, regularly increasing, convex, narrow, last whorl a little descending in front; suture strongly impressed ; spire flat, excavated round the umbili- cus ; mouth luuately-rounded, lip simple, thin, not reflected at the columella. : Diameter, greatest, 0-07 ; least, 0°06; height, 0:03 of aninch. Habitat. Mount Wellington.—Waséers. - 11. Hexrx. (Discus) perenrcra. Cox. Hon., 1868, p. 23. Pl. XII. Fig, 12. | Via, Fant, os, Hi, similis Cox. Shell deeply and perspectively umbilicated, discoid, spire depressed, chestnut-brown, not shining, regularly and finely ribbed on the upper and under surface ; whorls 4}, roundsd, last whorl descending a little in front, suture deep and narrow, peristome simple, thin ; aperture round, margins closely approximating, columellar mar- gin not reflected at the base. Diameter, greatest 0-08 ; least 0-07 ; height 0-04 of an inch. Habitat. Mount Wellington.—Jfasters. The name similis, is pre-occupied, wo tee 12, Henrx, (Videaa) Srncuarri. Pfr, Zeit-schrift fiir Malac. 1845, p. 154. Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 1444. o Cox. Mon., 1868, Plate VII. Fig. 3, 3a, 3b. Shell umbilicated, depressed, thin, translucent, not shining, very regularly and yery closely, rather prominently, ribbed, horny- yellowish, with many interrupted spiral reddish bands; spire, flattened ; whorls 4, flatly-conyex, quickly increasing, last large, - depressed, conyex externally, much deflected in front; base smoother and more glossy, umbilicus widely funnel-shaped, nearly equalling 4 of the diameter; aperture diagonal, oyately-lunar ; peristome simple, thin, regular, margins approximating, columel- lar margin scarcely dilated or reflezted. Diameter, greatest0'70 ; least 0°60 ; height 0°25 of an inch, Habitat, Mount Wellington. Snug. Recherche Bay. Brown’s River. Huon.—JV.Z. Sarah Island, —Jfilligan. There are several varieties of this species, varying in colour from one in which the whole of the shell is yellow, to bombycina, in which the dark lines are broken, somewhat resembling smal] leaves. The dark-coloured varieties run closely to dubitans. The — spire also yaries so much in degrees of flatness that Pfeiffer placed bombycina in adifferent section. There is no doubt that the two species are identical, as they run so gradually into each other — that it is impossible to separate them, The home of this species appears to be the South-west corner of the Island as the North-east is that of Launcestonensis. Dr. Milligan collected it many years since at Sarah Island, but I have never re- ceived it from either that place or Port Davey, the most westerly point being the vicinity of Mount Anne. I never found it north of Mount Wellington, or on the eastern side of the Derwent. The first specimen I ever collected was in 1858 on Mount Welling- ton, from a small tea-tree, over-hanging a pool of water, about m dway between the upper and lower ice-houses, ‘This would be an elevation of about 2,500 feet above the sea level. “ pe if - 4 Lis | . é d _ . ied q Pact u . * : ; = : rity oil) Pa: ; 3 jiode af} te . + taf HELIX. 13, Hetrx. (Hyalina) sunancunata, Pfr., Pro, Zool. Soe. 1854, p. 53.—Mon, Hel. Viv., Vol IV. Reeve, Cone. Icon, sp. 1301. Cox, Mon. 1868, p. 12, Pl. IX. Fig. 6, ccpied from Reeve. Shell umbilicated, eonvexly- depressed, rather solid, finely striate scarcely shining, waxy, ornamented with a narrow chestnut ond near the suture, aad 2 broader ones (3 in Reeve's Fig.) beneath the periphery ; spire short, convex, obtuse; whorls 44, slightly con- 2 ; vex, gradually increasing, last not descending, periphery slightly angled, base rather flat, aperture oblique, of a rounded squarish form; peristome simple, straight, with margins nearly parallel, the Silnenelise being expanded near the umbilicus, which is ofa moderate size and open. Diamet r, greatest 0°64; least 0-50 ; height 0°45 of an inch, Habitat. Van Diemen’s Land. Pye iffer. (2?)—W. L. Another doubtfully Tasmanian species. The type specimen is also - in the British Museum 14, Herrx (Discus) Tasmanrx. Cox. fon. 1868, p.22. Pl. xT, Fig 4. Shell widely umbilicated, depressed, each whorl regularly oerkeeed above with alternate dark chestnut and light segments ; regularly and strongly ribbed ; thin, spire slightly raised ; whorls 5, flattened towards the suture, the last descending a little in front, base con- — vex; umbilicus deeply funnel-shaped ; aperture roundiy-dilated — lip simple, sharp, margins closely approaching, columellar margin not dilated at the base. Diameter, greatest 0°13 ; least 0°11; , height 0:07 of an inch. ‘Hal'tat. Mount Wellington _—Masters. —W.L. Snug.—Sprov?s. Found by me on Mount Wellington in 1864 ; afterwards ia the same locality by Mr. Masters, I have since collected it at Brown’s River; near the New Huon Road, and (sparingly) near Southport » ror * _-_ etal ne ee | ~~ d a = . /- _™ a. +4 * : ° be Ja | << ed { a : * ’ xXTWIsH cx ot, a a > ce ‘Tite be eae "be alt el th tna amas MoT fics 2 oe TT Oe Binnie Chon bios syipes -f rahe -"y ly Riad tectesteyorne 6 dite baleetuoeeo | ate E - a... 4 ’ tr +. - .s = oy c le i - @ Baa Weh=sroul Catt S'Seik 49 0) f8No Tao « Saas Ye qitdable dtelayilw penide pervano jweila mtheli i ie fs ug ear Ys" qey s bee bebalbsecs a i =. ened there eign St, BS Naw enolase adiime ‘ “ ae had — aie p -. cola fee BEMO NIE OF) 24 vir ye MERA OP! 208 oD hac: qhalgors frodw “lr ta a” Paw. i Re Bier st 2 agate « bseces Rt 2- Ms vers ret wi s init 2 % ie yithsetn avusrene ine _— so y * Hy § PA HD 1G -N\CPEP Sigel ia be ~ a ~~ “a : a OR pmm SS sake Ve eo 4th ‘ by aE - ae i‘ 7-8 ody fat La 1% teh - es ee | Spree ce BY : ei fs : Peet, PE i 2 bitoni pense oye ES 4 * 7 : Pe Ciaet Shot: | 1 ‘ 2 19 7) ‘ a? iii HELIX. 15, Henix(Patula) WeLtincTonensis. Con, Jhn., 1868. . 2 ) Fig. 5, 5a. Pro.Zool. Soc., 1867. | oe. Shell umbilicated, Sipreaal yenchiculart sub-discoid, thin, with atan, _ like riblets radiating sub-arcuately, frequently extending even tothe umbilicus, not shining, varying in colour from glassy-white to dirty yellow ; spire small, scarcely elevated ; whorls 4, slowly increasing moderately convex, last more convex, not descending in front; umbilicus perspective, equalling } of the diameter ; aperture mode- rately oblique, lunate ; peristome simple, thia, straight, margins approaching, columellar margin neither dilated nor reflexed. Diameter, greatest 0°27; least 0°23; height 0:14 of an inch, Habitat. Mount Wellington, near the Upper Mial.—]V7.Z, Norih- west Bay.— Sproule. Brown’s River.— Hall. 16. Hettx Soy ALEXANDR, Cox, Dfon., 1868, p. 6%. Pl. VI. Fig. 1 Shell umbilicated, depressed, glassy, translucent; shining, faintly and not regularly, finely, membranously ribbed; spire slightly promi- nent, suture impressed ; whorls 4, regularly increasing, convex, last slightly deflected in front; base striated as above to the bottom of the perspective umbilicus, which equals 3 of the diameter ; aperture diagonal, nearly circular ; peristome thickened, expanded slightly reflected, white, margins nearly continuous. Diameter, greatest 0°09 ; least 0-07 ; height 0.05 of an inch. Habitat, A Garden near Hobart Town.—J, Zuckman. Sydney and other places in N.S. Wales.— Coz. A New South Wales species, probably introduced from Sydney in mould with plants. Australian Land Shells, 1804, pa 17, Henrx (Discus) Mortt. Cox, Mon., 1868. p.21.Pl. XI. Fig.13. Shell rather widely and deeply umbilicated, depressly-convex, irregular ly transversely ribbed, the interstices being decussatel y-punctately striate; slightly shining, translucent, horny-brown; whorls 3 to 34, moderately convex, the last rounded, not descending ; spire slightly elevated, obtuse; aperture roundly-lunate, margins approaching peristome simple, the columellar border slightly everted. Diameter. greatest 0:08; least 0°07 height 0.04 of an inch. Habitat, N. S. Wales, 8. & W. Australia, and Tasmania,— Coz. q 5 f et 2 a ee a eee 8 Oe un shody : boxe y ichtanien See Ol Swiledassb kn ceo v coo qiem. fe ole Stag woteninihpee to £ s clingy pois Saws. disinie ait Eine oneneg he exéhier tc 1... eA Sri aig <9 i pl! “fe tonne Gath on REO ADA L8-G tevah GSH sacar’ ot ° 1. ? hue beh a ma fy “ibe Ps Ma aS =~ iG be ae aren ee is t " aanal bie A \ at — ovis a ive rtd ae ciate fe 0g POSE pel 40D once eG *& ©¢ Tir & yet! -puinicde pet is cord vata es ‘ oheromay 1 ftuife stige ; heduiz ‘enonn elite 1581 ved ptlenetoni ysalnges Jb cigdes yw hice Toul! of evods an boteltdte cent ist | etusae j wle rani orld to 4 A leaps doistve .sxioi ila. beboagzs Sf onsdaids omoseling 5 2 -tnoneiiaes yliaen A9e) MD Yp TOO Lani + YOO dane O06, yo0l Seam ae a Mathes” ‘tiadolT 9 nt Yeolag. octl biaolkeuto: Uvadoug sain aca °.52 JI. If .q tee, me aay pe ities 6 o- ae qe Detecilidmeg a mre a qoteceonel pried oleate Atw b. ead inecor- serie Jee al Dents ‘ctigils tekved 4 ead wore SAS 30.0 Leqleg ca) a — cinemeasT bre Honan A WE From No 18 to 53 will be reprinted, embodyi HELIX, — 18. Henrx Anzrorrr. Habitat. Recherche Bay, Mount Wellington, Huon Road WL. I first found this shell, (which belongs to a section new to Tas- mania,) on Mount Wellington, about | ten years since, Its home seems to be Recherche Bay, where I collected a considerable number in March 1869. Ihave also found it at Brown's River, and near the Fern Tree Inn, on the New Huon Road. 19. Hexrx MEDIANUS. Cox. Habitat. Near Recherche Ray.— WW. LZ. A larger shell than Allporti, easily distinguished by the acute angle of the body whorl, — e ing the descriptions. = A species smaller in size, and partaking or tne cuaravucrs vi wav VO last. 21. Hexix ce@svus. Cox. Habitat, Recherche Bay.—IV.Z, A high-spired, sub-conical umbilicated species, about } of an inch in diameter, with 5 aoe increasing whorls. —S eee 22, HELIx AUSTRINUS. Cass Habitat. Near the Suth Cape.—JV.L. This species is from the extreme south of thelsland, near South Gape Bay, it isa light coloured shell with a higher and more pointed spire than Allporti. —_—— June, 1870. | ee ra ee Sete a ee eee Saat 7 os ; “ne siemens. om HELIX. 23. HELIX OCCULTUS. Cox. Habitat. Near Southport lagoon.— W.Z. Smaller, and with a flatter spire than casus. ——e 24, HELIX RUGA. Coz. Habitat. Mount Wellington.—JV.Z. North West Bay.—Sproule, Prosser’s Plains. — Collis. Oatlands. — Stephens. When young, striated with bright red, gradually losing the colour with age; when it is of an uniform yellowish-brown, lighter at the = | . 25, HELIX MARCHIAN2. Cox. Habitat. Recherche Bay. Brown’s River.—WV.L. A white polished shell, belonging to the section Discus. -__ 26, Hemx Srepuenst. Cox. Habitat. Mount Wellington. Brown’s River.— W. LZ. A light, strongly-ribbed shell of 4to 44 quickly increasing whorls: belonging to the section Patula. 27. Hextx Acnewt. Con. Habitat. Tasmania.— Cow. 28. Henix Plexus. Cox. Habitat. Tasmania.— Cox, —_— June, 1870. a era rh lin ell ete at Ceti ei a gue niga E HELIX. 29, Hevix DUBITANS. Cox. Habitat. North-West Bay, and Snug—WV.Z. Nearly allied to, but differing in colour from Stnclairi, which is more or less yellow, duditans is either chestnut, or {the marking, if any, are whitish like snow flakes. The base is never shining, Sinclairi is always more or less so, ED 30. Hetix VIGENS. : ‘ Cox, Habitat. Tasmania.— Cox. 31. Hentx FULGETRUM, Cox. Habitat. Brown's Kiver—Hall. A small highly polished shell of 3 whorls and ofa yellow colour, hay. ing the aspect of a Vitrina. 32. Herix Gounprana. Cox. Habitat. River Snug.—Sproule. Brown’s Riyer.—Burch. A shell that might at first sight be taken for Zusmanie, it is, how- ever yery different, while Zasmanie is invariably ribbed, Gould- tana is smooth, and of a peculiarly silky lustre. The spire is also flatter. 33. Hertx RAMSGATENSIS, Cox, Habitat. Recherche Bay, Brown’s River—W.L. Strongly ribbed, umbilicus perspective, colour, brown, with a pin- ky tinge, belonging to the section Discus. 34, Hextx Hattr. Cox. Habitat Brown’s River.— 7V.L. A minute species nearly allied to ¢ranquilla. June, 1870. ‘ea mS Mec Be is Vet s - Sides aie Se bins “ bss san Wain eke t uk ‘pete Goren et feed sit 7 peri wens ceitats et OF BAD i 1G NOOR ay, Asi —s he ved gucloo wollez ato bos ehodw to Heda] a h . — i . x soiwi¥ * ww Jyh —o4i ‘nok hae -wod 213i Atnewadt at nodad od pores rivimel) Seddiy vidaitevai ei Ss bateevereaal fore obte ed orige of T nile ie yale ba i. “= fa aril vows “ot r dx vF reo ut ,tarade ” Boy Te. Pt iG aopoea : J na —_ iE of s (Let snel * ee a a 2 ?-_ HELIX. 35. Herrx Daveyensts. Cox, Habitat. Port Davyey.— W.Z. The largest Tasmanian species yet described of the section Discus— only one specimen found. 36. HeLix TRAJECTURA. Cox, Habitat. Port Davey.— WL. , A small shell, belonging to the same group as JZalli and tranquilla. -—-__ 37. Hetix TRANQUILLA. Cox. Habitat. Port Davey.—W.L. Belonging to the same group as the last. ee eee 38, Hetix MIxTA. Cox, Habitat. Port Davey.— W.L. Another small shell, nearly allied to the last. 39. Henix PARVISSIMA, Cox. Habitat. Near Brown’s River.—fall. as A yery minute species, the most conical yet found. ol 40. Hexix KinGstonensis. Cox. Habitat. Brown’s River.—/Zall. A small, white, ribbed shell, belonging to the section Discus. June, 1870. a aed noel iivcie i(t% "b eanoaitt aoiioos od} 2 WER te ny SN tm MeN Oe Pe an gel ods of Bailes HELIX. Al. Hexrx C@PptTa. : Cor, Habitat. Brown’s River.— ail. Allied to Stephensi, but much smaller in size. ee ee eet 42. Henrx posiTura. | Cox, Habitat. Recherche Bay—J/eLeod. A small, acutely angled shell, ribbed on the upper side. a 43, Hetix vEXANDA. ~ Cow, Habitat. North West Bay —WV.L. Named froma single specimen, which may possibly be an over-grown dubitans. The markings much resemble Reevye's figure of bisuleata. 44, Wetx (Hyalina) Neisonensis. Brazier: Habitat. Mount Nelson.— Lrazier. Recherche Bay. Port Dayey.— W.L. Brown’s River.—ZZall. A small highly polished shell, striated with red. 45, Hexix (Patula) pisrar. | Brazier, Habitat. Mount Wellington,— Brazier’. —_ 46, Heuix (Charopa)* Onstow1. Brasier Habitat. Mount Wellington.— Drazier, ——- June, 1870. er *Mr. Brazier’s sub-divisions are those of Albers, Dr, Cox follows Pfeiffer, ‘donsequently they will not agree, 1 oy nn aaa, oe aes ~ eye fa: — HELIX. 47, Hexrx (Patula) negurcra, Habitat. Knocklofty,—Brazier, | oan enema th 48. Hexix (Charopa) Curagoa. Habitat. Near Mount Wellington.— Brazier. 49. Hextx (Charopa) Ricer. Habitat. Foot of Mount Wellington.— Brazier. 50. Herix (Charopa) AMMONITOIDESs. Habitat. Mount Nelson,—Brazier. 51. Henix (Charopa) rorexra. Habitat. Mount Wellington. — Brazier. —— 52, Hetix (Aeropa) Kiner. Habitat. Ringarooma.— Brazier. 53, Hextx (Hemiplecta) Fornet. Habitat, Springs ? Tasmania.— Brazier. Ser a Brasier. Braxter. Brazier, Brazier, * Brazter. June, 1870. - ee 8 sicatateliented - “itt ee a ama HELIX. 54. Hexix, (Patula) MarGaATEnsis. Cox. Shell with a large funnel-shaped umbilicus, depre saly-orbicular. thin, transparent, yellow, shining and smooth below; rather coarsely regularly arcuately striated above; spire slightly raised ; whorls 44, rapidly increasing, rounded ; the last rather inflated, not depressed in front ; aperture lunatelyoyate; peristome simple; thin, margins approached ; columellar margin not dilated or re- flexed. Diameter, greatest 0°43 ; least 0°36 ; height 0,25 of an inch. Habitat, North West Bay, — W.Z. Closely resembling HZ. Strangeoides of New South Wales. 55.Heiix. (Discus) sPECTRA. Cow, Shell with a yery broad, open, perspective, funnel-shaped umbilicus , discoid, pale-brown, not shining strongly, regularly, transversely costately striated above and below; whorls 5, very gradually increasing in size, ex2ayated above and below the suture ; spire scarcely raised,last whorl slightly descending in front ; base angled by the margin of the umbilicus; peristome simple, thin, aperture lunately-rounded, margins approached columellar margin neither thickened or dilated. Diameter, greatest 0°12; least ; 0°09 height 0-07 of an inch. Habitat, Brown’s River-—Hall. 56. Hexrx. (Videna) Du Cant. Cox. Shell widely umbilicated, convexly depressed, traasversely, finely obliquely, granularly striated;.and longitudinally regularly striated with slightly wayed striz ; thin, transparent, pale yellow brown; whorls 6, rounded ; suture deep, spire slightly raised; peristome simple, thin, straight, margins approached; columellar margin not dilated or reflexed. Diamster, greatest, 0°78 ; least 0-62 height 0°50 of an inc], Habitat, | Banks of the Leven. North West Tasmania.—O. Gould. April, 1871, HELIX. 57. Hexrx, (Discus) Orricert. Cox. Shell deeply, openly, but narrowly umbilicated ; depressed, discoid, yellow-brown, very closely and finely striately ribbed, irreg- ularly and indistinetly rayed with brown, whorls 5, convex, last not descending in front; spire almost flat; suture impressed ; base rounded and excavated round the umbilicus ; aperture lunately rounded; peristome simple, thin; margins much approached ; columellar margin broadly and triangularly dilated above. Diameter, greatest 0:17 ; least 0°14 ; height 0°10 of an inch. Habitat. North West Bay.—Jfidson. Near the Great Lake,— Richards. 58. Hexrx. (Paryphanta?) Virrrwarorstis. "Cox, Shell imperforate, flatly depressed, yellow-brown, thin, horny, trans- lucent ; irregularly streaked with lines of growth longitudinally ; shinivg, very finely striated with waved striz, above and below; whorls 44, rapidly increasing in size ; flat above, last much dilated, not descending in front, spire not raised; peristome straight, simple, thin, aperture proportionally very large, lunately-rounded, colu- mellar margin expanded and impressed, covering the umbilicus. Diameter, greatest 0°38 ; least 0-28; height 0:18 of an inch. Habitat. Tasmania. An interesting species, easily recognised by the fine longitudinal striz, and Vitrina-like form. It may prove a Helicarion, 59. Hexrx, (Videna) quzstiosa. Cox. Shell with a large open umbilicus ; thin, depressed, dull above, shining below, coarsely and regularly striately-ribbed, more prominent above than below; yellow brown above, gradually sha- ding off to yellow below ; whorls 43 to 5, flatly convex; rapidly in- creasing in size; the last dilated outwardly ; not descending in front; apex scarcely raised, aperture elongately, ovately-lunar, margins _ simple, approached, columellar margin slightly dilated. Diameter, greatest 0°55 ; least 0-40 ; height 0°22 of an inch. Habitat. Oatlands.—Stephens. May 1871. HELIX. 60. Hexrx. (Discus) srrrens. Cox. Mon, 1868, Pl. XII. Fig, 11. Shell rather largely and openly umbilicated, depressed, dusky brown, ornamented above and below with broad light-red rays; transyers: - ly striated with oblique, transyerse, rather prominent riblets, at regular intervals; spire elevated, whorls rounded, gradually increa- sing in size, last whorl considerably depressed; aperture sublanately- rounded ; peristome simple, blunt; margins closely approached ; columellar margin straight, not dilated. Diameter, greatest 0°10 ; least 0:08 ; height 0:05 of an inch, Habitat. Near the Hobart Town Water-works,— IV. Z. I take this opportunity of publishing a description of a shell which was figured by mistake in my Monograph of Australian Land — Shells published in 1868 at Plate XII. Fig. 11. for H. Hobarti; a moment’s reference to the description and plate will point out the discrepancy. This shell differs from Hobarti in being less widely - umbilicated; and it is uniformly rayed above and below with light red. In general appearance it is very like a species described by Mr. Brazier as neglecta, but that species is not ribbed, but only faintly and irregularly striated with lines of growth, and the light brown rays or segments exist on the upper surface only ; the last whorl in neglecta is not depressed, while in sitiens it is consider- ably so.— Cow. 61, Hexrx. (Discus) rusco-raprara. Coz. Pl. II. Fig. 2. Shell widely and openly umbilicated, discoid, thin, smooth, shining pale horn-yellow, ornamented with irregular broad light-brown rays, striated with lines of growth ; spire flat, whorls 4, gradually increasing in size, rounded ; suture deep and excavated, margin of the umbilicus steep ; peristome simple, thin, aperture rotundately- lunate ; margins converging, columellar margin yery slightly ex- panded. Diameter, greatest, 0.13 ; least 0:09 ; height 0:07 of an inch. Habitat. Brown’s River.—Hall. May 1871. HELIX. 62. Hexix. (Discus) Arxinsonr. Cox. PI, II. Fig, 12. Shell with a broad perspective open umbilicus, suddenly much exea- vated round its aperture, giving it an angled appearance; sub-dis- coid, thin, light dull brown ornamented with alternate pale red and light rather broad bands, more marked above than below, striated at broad intervals with rather coarse and irregular cost, the interstices which are finely striated ; whorls 54, very slowly increasing in size ; spire only very slightly raised ; whorls rather flat above, rounded below ; peristome simple, thin ; aperture almost round ; margins much approached ; columellar margin not dilated. Diameter, greatest 0°33 ; least 0°28 ; height 0.19 of an inch. Habitat. Brown’s River—Hall. 63. Hexix. (Hyalina) SypNevensis. Cox, Catalogue of Australian Land Shells, 1864, p. 37 ; Mon, 1868. p.9. Pl. IX, Fig. 16, and Pl. XVIII. We. 3, 3a. Shell umbilicated, depressed, rather solid, shining, fratsparedts faintly and closely striated with lines of growth, yellowish-horny above ; spire slightly elevated, roundly obtuse, suture very obsoletely margined whorls; 5} to 6, slightly convex, the last not descending in front, conyex, slightly depressed above ; base flatly convex, opaquely whitish, umbilicus very large, eqcallinee one-fifth of the diameter of the circumference ; aperture diagonally oblique, some- what roundly and obliquely lunate ; peristome smooth, straight, margins converging, columellar uot dilated or expanded. Diameter, greatest 0°53 ; least 0-45; height 0-25 of an inch. Habitat. Abundant in gardens and cellars about Sydney.— Cox. Launceston, Tasmania.— Zhatcher. In the above there is fiequeutly present a spiral reddish thread below the suture. Careful comparison with specimens of the European cellaria shew in that species greater flatness of spire and of the shell generally, and there is a decided difference in the shade of colour. Sydneyensis is very closely allied to glaberrima from the Solomon Islands, in the description of which by Pfeiffer and Reeve no mention is made of the obsoletely striated _ markings.— Cox. The claim of this species toa Tasmanian habitat rests on the author- ity of Mr. R. Thatcher.— W. Z. May 1871. BULIMUS. 1, Bunrmus (Caryodes) Durresni. Leach, Miscell. Zool. p. 153, Pl, CXX, Cox., Mon. 1868., p. 70, Pl. XIII. Helix Dafresni. Mer., Hist. Pl. CXIII. Fig.1—3. Shell imperforate, ovately-oblong, rather solid, shining, and almost smooth, although faintly marked with longitudinal strie and gra” nulations, chestnut brown, encircled by yellow and blackish bands spire obtuse, suture crenulated below; whorls 5, slightly conyex, last nearly equalling the spire ; aperture oval, very slightly oblique, bluish within; peristome simple, rounded on the edge, frequentlY moderately thickened, right and basai margins regularly and mode- rately arcuate, columellar margin partially twisted in the centre, and aboye slightly expanded and adherent. Habitat. Tasmania. Widely distributed and very abundant.—(or. Length 1-60 ; breadth 0:80; aperture 0°80; long 9°50, wide, of an inch, A handsome and yariable species. One median spiral band is general- ly present, usually flanked with two paler ones. Sometimes there are longitudinal markings in addition.— Qoz, Some of the finest specimens that Ihaveseen, were from the North- West Bay District. Mr, Gould found one at the Leven, 2 inches in length. Macquarrie Harbour specimens are brown, those from Port Davey deep green with lighter markings, Eastwardly they are stunted, sometimes not more than 3 of anivch in length. Prosser’, Plains specimens are a deep yelvety black. All hayethe median band mentioned by Cox. It has been found fossilised in the Tertiary formations of the North Coast. Fe er 4 rice sae en}. on: se 4 ici ois +2 i lee . iire’ js" oe ity - “ BULIMUS. 2. Bunimus (Mesembrinus) Tasmanicus. Pfr., Pro. Zool. Soe. 1851, ?p. 260. _ Cox, Mon. 1868, p. 72, Pl. XIII. Fig. 1. Shell imperforate, conically-ovate, rather solid,* translucent, with little lustre, flatly and rather coarsely longitudinally striated, whitish, originally covered with a reddish-brown epidermis, often remaining as long close streaks along the lines of growth, but fre- quently entirely absent, when the surface may have a dull chalky appearance ; spire reddish, and papillary at the apex; whorls 5, slightly convex, last nearly thrice the length of the spire, rounded at the base ; aperture very slightly oblique, of a rather lengthened oval, pale yellow within; peristome simple, straight, thin, colu. mellar margin very slightly rolled back. Length 1-10; breadth 0°60; aperture 0°65 long; 0°40 broad, of an ineh. Habitat. Tasmania, climbing on trees.—Gunn. Swansea, Port Davey,—Gould. Bay of Fires, Prosser’s Bay, on Boobyallas and _ Wattles—W. Z. Macquarie Harbour.—Milligan—Lloyd. A shell varying in relative length and breadth, but more so in mark- ings, from the absence or presence of the coloured epidermis,— . Cox, , The distribution of this species is peculiar. Itis found on the North and East near the coast, generally on sandy ground ; from _the East it takes a leap to Port Davey, where Mr. Gould collected two specimens. Farther west it has been found at Macquarie Har- bour ; so thatit has been collected on the Northern, Eastern, and _ Western sides of the Island. Iam not aware ofit haying been found in the South, or in the interior— W. LZ. *The specimens from Prosser’s Bay are Y and thin,~as are all have seen from the East Coast —W .L. oranese ost sania 2 davare, lub g2 stad tan ese bei nade t= iol ts . i pitde cladgila yaw ‘2 4 . "ha ‘ loath eiagree 7nd oaks Bao e211 .xvilvsaq at soins : Br say hore 20 yilewaey o VITRINA. f; Virrtna (Helicarion) Muinxiicant, Pfr., aren Zo0l., Soe, 1852, p, 56. Reeve, Cone. Icon., sp. 18. . Cox, Mon., 1868, p. 82. Pl. XIV. Fig 2, 2a, Shell Bparuslyecvets rather solid, polished, very glossy, translucent, olive black ; spire convex; whorls 3, 2nd conyex, last depressly rounded ; aperture more oblique than diagonal, lunately rounded- oval, within coloured as without ; peristome simple, right margin dilated forwards, anterior regularly, and columella slightly arched. Diameter, greatest 0°83 ; least 0°60 ; height 0°35; aperture 0-45 long ; 0:45 broad, of an inch, Habitat. Sarah Island.—Afilligan.—Lloyd. Port Davey.— FL. This remarkable, shining, and nearly black Vitrina resembles in a most striking manner very young specimens of Heliz Busbyi, of New Zealand, but like all others of the genus is imperforate.— Cox- 2, vee (Helicarion) Verreavuxt, Pfr., Pro. Zool. Soc, 1849, ps 132. Reeve, Cone, Icon., sp. 21. Cox, Mon., 1868, p, 83. Pl. XIV. Fig. 14, da, : Shell depressly auriform, thin, diaphanous, slightly shining, smooth, (pale greenish yellow to deep orange, ) frequently rugosely striated ‘at the suture, faintly elsewhere ; spire nearly flat, suture impres- sed, narrowly margined ; whorls 3, the last depressed above, pro- dave rounded at the periphery and below ; aperture diagonal, Junately oyate ; peristome simple, sharp, Sra margin curved for- wards, then gradually rounding to the columellar which is (gen- erally) membranous. Diam eter, greatest 0-55; least 0-45 ; height 0°17 ; aperture, length 0:40 ; breadth 0°35 tian inch, Habitat. Australia.— Verreauz. Mount’s Wellington and Nelson, Recherche, North-west, Barnes and Taylor’s Bays, Port Davey, Huon.— WV. L. Prosser’s Plains. — Collis. Fenton Forest,— Stephens. Bruni and Garden Islands.— Gulliver. Some specimens from Recherche Bay approach Ailligant in both size and colour, | . 4 | SUCCINEA. 1, Succrnga austRatis, Ferussac, Hist. Moll, Pl. XII, Fig. 11. Cox, Mon,, 1868. p. 88, Pl. XV. Fig. 7, 7a, Shell oyately-conical, thin, rugosely striated, pellucid, pale horny, sometimes marked with darker streaks ; spire conical, acute ; whorls 34, convex, last forming 2-3rd of the length, columella sub-callous» somewhat slightly receding ; aperture acuminately oval,incumbent; peristome simple, straight, Lets 0°47; breadth 0°32 ; aperture 0:32 long ; 0-20 broad, of an t Habitat, Launceston. —Gunn. Brown's River Road.—Single Hill close to the beach).—W.Z, Oatlands.—Stephens, Providence > Valley.— Geiss. Kangaroo Point (very small specimens, possibly a distinct species)\—Afasters, Ferussac, who named and described this species, gave as its habitat “ Australian Isles.” A. Suecinea was also found in Tasmania by Quoy and Gaimard, which they figured and referred to S. australis. Neither their descriptions or figures are identical with that species, as was pointed out by Pfeiffer, in 1848, and in 1859 he gaye an origi- nal and accurate description from Tasmanian specimens. New Cale- donia is not included in the rangeof this species as mentioned by M. Ganies, his figure in “Zum. Conch, §v., dela Nouvelle Cale- donia” being that of a distinct species. Woodward notices a succinea a3 common to Tasmania and Swan River, Ss 4 aM bi ‘7 J 1g. Jd WAR. oul sa = ey Ms . oe aq bioa! 4 ai tose j yi a! lung spe 14 due Silemulen | Te dad t stants — si thfad off ea ovRR Ao s 3 if siteasase! nl be uk « —ailea 2 Pear silt c . sige DR S725 <' casi nl! BaD m9 .ecoaiio ‘ 6 yw Hawoitness eR niin NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS DESCRIBED BY J. C. COX, MLD., OF SYDNEY. Herr, (Planispira) Anirorty. Legrand. MS. 1870. sp, 18, PI. 1. Fig: 90 | Tf. Peiterdi, Cor,” a : Shell with deep narrow perforation, turbinately-globose, thin, dark * chestnut, whorls 5, slightly convex, the last relatively much larger than the other whorls, and sub-angular above the middle; scarcely descending in front, base inflated, suture impressed, spire conoid, apex acute, irregularly rugosely-striated above, smoother below, aperture oblique, irregularly dvately-rounded, and inclining to be contracted; peristome simple, not thickened; margins converging columellar margin dilated above, almost concealing the narrow um. bilicus, : Diameter, greatest 0°32; least 0°25; height 0:20 of an inch. This species must closely resemble and be closely allied to HZ. plicu- ~ dosa of Pfr. I have named it in honour of my friend Mr. Morton Allport of Hobart Town, to whom Tasmania is much in ee _ for developing all the branches of Natural History of the colony. WV.L.- % Hexix((Camena) mepranus sp. 19, PI, Fig. 1, Shell perforated ; depressly turbinately-globose; reddish-brown, thin, transparent, rather finely striated with lines of growth; whorls 53, last whorl conspicuously keeled and inflated, apex acute; base exca- vated round the narrow umbilicus; aperture angularly-rotundate,not contracted, peristome simple ; columellar margin only slightly dila- ted, not concealing the umbilicus, : Diameter, greatest 0-41; Teast 0°35 ; Closely resembling the last species, but i very strongly keeled. ae 3 | OLIN AMAT META MALE AG: *% ‘ idy : , ; yd Pe palbeoong ott at am | Seem ewe Sac y | —— : arene nema ynegrentectes at s ee ae Ree: vel ie tk Gi rade af | Be; bias ed Ot ated eral Saas site Dieder pat giise foielat send iyi salon adn Setudise-tloeoswy fief itis. si en, Del aor v Hevd vbultgers3 s i» it nal bptass sfagsalon! tom ,alqrtin surcdar eee Ss | iit woyeaa, ail) elt erin teocnla evude beitih s Fee! fe aiees Y OLO tkyial ¢ G20 tensh’ > oes k icon. Tisenks odd E ura 5 aris thay. v! fenige Walk Beist zor to saved at a7 Site, om tf 24 sOmted ti sicsqteel dtoder oF a0 ” ee tadd ciyrotaltt [owe Lo ext areict ol? ifs, A el tg, rods git a 3} i i AT? aU ATGRM 4 Meihlet scot oly glatns til rest . Uanernygedy aa dt llores lo goajf ad at hohaieta Yond will hn BOT zsivos voqs 5Soielhui baa haloosd yl; roveipeaas fae p34) goin! 5Qoe IIDSIHTR peccoll jalteete ¥, wort as | . i Byitio niger wollpessioo 7 ofgotte se roreirag ba ? ; e = ~ TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. § Hetix.( (Discus) ) AGNewr. sp. 29. Pl. I. Fig. 8. 17" ~ Shell discoid,with a moderately elevated spire, umbilicus large, open, 7 and deep, under the lens very finely, closely, and regularly striated throughout, of a horny-brown colour ; whorls 4}, convex, slanting _ towards the suture ; gradually increasing in size, last not depress- ed in front; suture deeply impressed! aperture lunate ; peristome simple, straight; margins approaching; columellar'margin not dilated — or reflected. Diameter, greatest 0°18; least 0-16 ; height 0,08 of an inch. ‘ Hexix. ((Videna) )ruga. sp, 24. Pl. I. Fig.5 . Shell with a large perspective umbilicus, equalling 3 of the diameter ofthe shell ;depressed, rather thin, horay-yellow or sometimes ° dark olive, shining below ; whorls 43, quickly increasing, regularly striated above with coarse rib-like strie; smooth below, last whor] much dilated and slightly depressed near the mouth, which is ovately-lunate ; peristomethin and simple, with approximating mar- ~ gins ; columelfar margin not dilated. Diameter, greatest 0°37 ; least 0°31 ; height 0:12 of an inch. Closely allied to H. dombycina and Sinclair’, but is a smaller and rounder species, less flattened, and destitute of any banded markings. Herx. (Discus) marcutanx, sp. 25, Pl. I. Fig.7, } Shell discoid, broadly and perspectively umbilicated, thin, translucent» glassy, pale horny-yellow ; irregularly finely striated throughout, very faintly marked with irregular transverse horn streaks 7 Whorls 4} to 5, convex, very gradually increasing in size; spire flat, suture wide, and rather deeply impressed, last whorl scarcely descending in front; aperture oval; peristome simple, thin; margins approaching; columellar margin not dilated or reflected. Dianeter, greatest 0:19; least 0-165 height 0-08 of an inch. - Closely allied to, and somewhat resembling HH. Wellingtonensis, but differing in the umbilicus being wider, the spire flatter, of more whorls, and the sculpture being much less strongly marked. ~ i r . . oe | t y ¥ r Si wae - i , 4 : +. rt ~ _ b “ ‘ s ‘ * . - am ‘ J & r . bt Fah, | Le Tt Ak *s ‘ ~ ‘wre = -" * ; ’ * - rg , © od :. us al ; om 2% ff, 2 e 4 } re ’ 4 tet j a“ = rel tt S agra ane: Dilacst asic s *< t a ialpest See cle da x fs (xara , rs -ahodwr ¢tipleg: eeiqaG jog-deal oxid: pi yoiesonerd ami oesgiarioy 7otaarl smlwmy oeatenh, Tau! libsow js fuser tajlscnies a oidaaiane - ; i a = % t - ; : «dager Yop w0.0 basis i binds: , Cos + Si é i. tesem sit ot \o ‘ o milf ee olka ve Qamisomoy 0 wcilexy-yewd idl sole ag eels or Jafemrsol y ‘afainte P hb abinde frou deel eulyd dioow a: eine ollif- di os ai doide inent ‘oft seen boeocole “Tore Buiter! xovgae ddiw liste how mn sees hojalih. its Hoh Ae ae SOM Agi ks 18: otek ie seekluie Be. i; af Wientialk, foe aothan Soba ped Sealed cnesl j ad uh d “ a a ’ } oe « Si = .| ff 2 : ‘sdndonlemer! pitied ¥ niseil © bbe steal: Batabs i+ yviank vie ipo « padoortte drat. abscess vce) tale, ane ; eniz ai acm retort t, * _ ean Hodw sent ‘fier Pexptttent wf. Agen we) plgen! S astardedvsey : fe a Sar Bates! 7 ta. fic inlithy th : “Pe oe gf, Hea Ant Ke. 0 OGY tg wh ths “aden yis ae ro PRctanes dds ro TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. 6 ‘Hetix, (Patula) vexanna. sp. 43. Shell with a large open umbilicus, sub-discoid, moderately thin, uni— formly of a dull yellow-brown colour above, chestnut below, and shining ; coarsely striated above and below with arcuate cost, strie converging and running deep into the umbilicus ; whorls 5, — rapidly increasing in size, flattened, the last descending in front; — aperture lunately-oval, very oblique ; peristome simple, blunt; margins approached ; columellar margin arched, but not dilated or reflected. Diameter, greatest 0°64 ; least 0°55 ; height 0,34 of an inch. This species has a general resemblance to H. Sinclairi, lampra and bombycina, but may be at once distinguished, by the absence of longitudinal strie, and by being coarsely striated above and below. Hettx. (Microcystis TRANQUILLA; sp, 37. Pl. I, Fig 3, Shell deeply and narrowly umbilicated, depressly-globose, thin, transparent, pale greenish yellow-brown, coarsely striated with lines of growth ; spire raised, sub-conoid, whorls 54, gradually in- - creasing in size, distended, last gently descending in front; aper- ture diagonal, ovately-lunar; peristome simple, not thickened, reg- ular; margins approximating ; columellar margin dilated and re- flected, Diameter, greatest 0:35 ; least 0°28 ; height 0°24 of an inch, Hex. (Conulus) parvisstma, sp. 39. Pl. II. Fig I. Shell narrowly umbilicated, turbinately-globose, transparent, thin, ' pale yellow-brown, smooth, shining; spire obtusely-conical ; whorls 53, convex, gradually increasing in size, last not descend- ing in front ; aperture irregularly lunate; peristome simple, thin ; columellar margin not expanded. . Diameter, greatest 0-05 ; Teast 0°04 ; height 0-06 of an inch, So far, this is the only species known as belonging to the section Conulus from Tasmania. It is allied to HZ. Parramattensis, Cox of New South Wales. ‘ TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. 7 Henx, (Rhyssota) Hauut, sp, 34, Pl. Il. Fig, 9. : Shell narrowly umbilicated, conoid, thin, pale yellowish-brown, very finely striated ; whorls 44 to 5, regularly increasing in size, rounded ; suture deeply impressed ; spire conically elevated ; aper- ture artes peristome simple, thin i columellar margin expanded at the base, Diameter, greatest, 0°06 ; least, 0°05; height, 0-04 of an inch. Hexrx. (Rhbyssota) rosrrura. sp. 42. Pl. II, Fig 10, Shell very narrowly umbilicated, conoidly depressed, thin, of a dull chestnut brown colour, with strongly marked, but widely separated cost, more prominent above than below ; whorls 4, gradually in- creasing in size, last expanded, sub-carinated, not depressed in front ; aperture slightly angled, Iunately-rounded 5 peristome simple, thin ; margins approached, columellar margin dilated and reflected over the umbilicus, Diameter, greatest, 0°25 ; least 0°18 ; height 0.12 ofan inch. Hexix. (Rhyssota) mrxva. sp. 38. Pl, II. Fig. 11. Shell with a deep narrow open umbilicus, depressly orbicular, thin, transparent, shining; irregularly rather coarsely striated with lines of growth above and below ; yellowish-brown or light olive brown ; whorls 5, gradually increasing in size, flatly slanting towards the suture ; spire conoidly depressed ; aperture lunately- rotundate ; peristome simple, thin; margins yery slightly ap- proximating ; columellar margin dilated at its insertion. Diameter, greatest, 0'24 ; least 0-19 ; height 0°15 of an inch. _ TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. 8 Hexrx. (Patula) Dusrrans. sp. 29. Pl. IT. Fig. 7. Shell broadly and openly umbilicated, thin, depressed’; uniformly; of a dull dark chestnut colour, coarsely striately-ribbed above to the apex of the spire, which is only slightly elevated; below shining where the striw are much less coarse and closer together ; converg- ing to enter the umbilicus, where they are decussated by faint ob- solete longitudinal strie ; whorls 44, rapidly increasing in size, flat above, rounded below, sub-angular ; aperture lunately-rounded ; peristome simple, thin ; columellar margin moderateiy dilated and reflected. Diameter, greatest 0°48 ; least 0°35; height 0°25 of an inch. Hetrx. (Discus) DAveyensis. sp. 35. Pl. Ii, Fig.}4. Shell deeply, broadly, openly and perspectively umbilicated, discoid, on thin, opaque, light brown, striated above and below with mode- rately regular, widely separated costw, the intercostal spaces being finely transversely striated ; whorls 6, flat above; spire almost flat, the last whorl more convex at the base, and sharply angled at the periphery of the umbilicus ; coste and striw entering deeply into the umbilicus ; aperture lunar-rounded, lip simple ; columellar margin thickened, but not dilated or reflexed. Diameter, greatest, 0°40 ; least, 0°32; height, 0°02 of an inch. He1ix, (Rhyssota) rrasecrura. sp, 36, Pl. IL. Fig, 6. Shell with a deep, narrow, half covered umbilicus, conoid, thin, trans- parent, pale brown, not shining, irregularly coarsely striated with lines of growth; spire conical ; whorls 5, the last dispropor- tionately large and sub-carinated ; aperture large, slightly angled, oblique, lunately-oval ; peristome simple, straight ; margins ap- proached ; collumellar margin widely dilated and reflected, half covering the umbilicus. Diameter, greatest, 0°32; least 0:26 ; height 0.20 of an inch. = om aCe,» | ~ game © ie) TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. 9 Hexix. (Discus) c@pra. sp. 41. Pl. IT. Fig. 13. Shell with a rather large open funnel-shaped umbilicus, depressed, discoid, thin, coarsely striately ribbed at broad regular intervals above and below, converging and running down into the umbil- icus; whorls 4, spire flat; last whorl rapidly increasing in size, not descending in front; suture impressed; aperture very oblique, roundly-lunate; peristome simple, thin, margins approached ; col- umellar margin not dilated. Diameter, greatest 0:13; least 0-10; height 0-08 of an inck. Heurx. (Planispira) pexus. sp. 28. Pl. I, Fig. 10, Shell turbinately-globose, deeply, openly, and rather narrowly um- bilicated ; thin, dull pale horny-brown, sculptured with rather irregular, prominent, arcuate ribs, widely separate ; the interstices of which are finely striated transversely ; whorls 5, apex raised, last whorl reflexed fora short distance in front; base convex, less prominently ribbed and striated than above ; peristome simple: aperture oblique, ovately-rounded ; margins approached, columel- lar margin alittle dilated at its insertion; margins joined bya rather thick callus. Diameter’, greatest, 0°24 ; least, 0-19; height, 0:20 of an inch. Hettx.( Charopa.) HELICE, sp. 20, Shell with a covered umbilizus, depressly turbinate, uniformly of a light chestnut colour, roughly striated with lines of growth; whorls 4, at first round, but gradually becoming flat, last whorl not descend- ding in front, and strongly and bluntly keeled, base slanting rapidly off from the keeled periphery and slightly excavated round the hidden umbilicus ; aperture strongly angled, peristome simple ; columellar margin dilated and reflected so as to conceal the narrow umbilicus Diameter, greatest, 0°20; least 0-17 ; height 0.11 of an inch. ——— eee ee . hans may ts OC * ’ * : 4 j Rez a os lee ‘ar? i Sida ine ’ i se * d ‘ . - 9s MENUS BONair es a # aa - Were ett GIT She Gch) &? 2k Cs ” . 2 * . see 26 52 31,8 ’ TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. 10 THE NEXT TEN SPECIES ARE NAMED AND DESCRIBED BY MR J, W. BRAZIER OF 8YDNEY, Hexix. (Hemiplecta) Forpet. sp. 53, Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1870. Shell perforated, convexly-depressed, thin, finely obliquely irregu- larly ribbed, horny-green ; whorls 4, convex rapidly increasing, last the largest, keeled at the periphery, grooved at tho suture ; spire slightly raised, acute ; base convex, moderately smooth ; aperture oblique, lunately-rounded ; peristome simple, margins dis- tant, the columellar reflexed, almost covering the perforation, Diameter, greatest, 0°30 ; least, 0°22; height, 0:16 of an inch. Habitat. Mount Wellington. Heix, (Charopa) Onstow1. sp, 46, Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1870. Shell umbilicated, orbicularly depressed, very finely ribbed, rather wavy, interstices smooth, covered with a reddish epidermis, not shining ; spire moderately flat, excavated at the suture ; whorls 43, conyex last rounded, slightly descending in front ; base sculptured same as upper surface, running into the umbilicus which is perspec— tive ; aperture oyately-lunate ; peristome simple, acute; margins distant, the basal moderately expanded and reflexed. Diameter, greatest, 0°16 ; east 0:15 ; height 0.10 of an inch. Habitat. Mount Wellington, under leaves. Named after Captain Onslow R. N. Henix. (Aerop:) Kine, sp. 52, Brazier, Pro. Zl. Soc. 1870. Shell umbilicated, convexly-depressed, rather thin, yery closely and irregularly finely striated and decussated, dirty brown, spire conoid- ly convex, obtuse at the apex, impressed at the suture; whorls St, slightly convex, last large, depressed in front, somewhat angled at the periphery, base rounded and marked with decussating strize - umbilicus deep ; aperture slightly oblique, lunately-oyal ; peristome simple; margins approximating, the right deecending ; columella margin strongly expanded and reflected, Diameter, greatest 0°37 ; least 0°29 ; height 0,30 of an inch.’ Habitat, Ringarooma, under logs. Named after the late Captain King, R.N. ie i TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. ll Hertx, (Charopa) amMonrroipes. sp. 50, Brazier, Pro. Zool, Soe. 1870. Shell umbilicated, flatly discoid, not shining, finely and prominently ribbed, not very regularly, the insterstices with very fine striw, waite beneath a brown epidermis ; spire flat ; suture slightly im- pressed : whorls 81 very regularly increasing, last rounded above 50. H. AMMONITOIDES. This name has been already used by Reeve. oe. ., i ee mane: ee ae Ae Le Hers, (Pitys) pispar. sp. 45, Brazier., Pro. Zool. Soc. 1870. Shell umbilicated, depressly-conyex, arcuately coarsely and sharpl y ribbed, interstices with very fine radiating striz, shining, reddish yellow ; spire conoid, obtuse, suture depressed; whorls 5 to 5}, con- vex, last rounded, base convex with radiating sculpture descending into the deep umbilicus ; interior of the aperture with alittle white elongated prominent callous tooth, nearly on the base; aperture vertical, semi-lunar; peristom: simple, acute ; margins joined by a thin callus, in some specimens it is very prominent, basal mod- erately reflected. Diameter, greatest, 0-13 ; least 0-11 ; height 0.11 of an inch. Habitat. Mount Wellington, under leaves. When I described this in Pro, Zool. Soe, I placed it in the sub-genus Patula, but upon clos? examinatioa of more specimens from Mr, W. F. Petterd, I find that it belongs to the sub-genus Pitys of Beck. Hextx, (Charopa) Ricet sp, 49. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1870. Shell umbilicated, depressed, thin, very finely and regularly striated, interstices decussated,* white not shining ; spire depressed, suture rather deep; whorls 4, convex, last large, rounded, not descending; base with strize same a3 upper surfaca; umbilicus large, funnel- shaped’; aperture ovately-lunate ; peristome simple, acute ;colu- mellar margin moderately reflected. Diameter, greatest 018 ; Teast 0-14 ; height 0,11 of an tnch. Habitat. Foot of Mount Wellington. Nance Mr, G. T. Rice. of the South Sea Island curiosity shop, Sydney. ee TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS. 12 Hexrx. (Charopa) rorenza. sp. 51, Brazier, Pro.Zool. Soc. 187 0. Shell with a small deep umbilicus, orbicularly-depressed, rather thin, not shining, closely and finely striated, interstices decussated, rusty brown; spire slightly raised , suture deep; whorls 4}, convex, last rounded not descending in front, base closely and finely stri- ated; aperture ovately-lunate; peristome simple, acute; margins dis- tant, the basal slightly reflexed. Diameter, greatest 0"1 9; least ; 0°15 height 0°10 of an inch. * Habitat. Foot of Mount Wellington. Heuix, (Charopa) Curacoa. sp, 48, Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1870 Shell rather widely umbilicated, depressed, thin, very closely and finely plicately ribbed, interstices smooth, white, not shining, spire depressed, suture rather deep; whorls 4}, rapidly increasing, con- yex, last large, rounded not descending im front, base ribbed same as upper surface, umbilicus perspective; aperture oblique, roundly-_ lunate; peristome simple thin, acute, angulated near the right mar- gin, basal slightly reflected. Diameter, greatest, 0°25 ; least, 0-20; height, 013 of an inch. Habitat. Near Mount Wellington. Henix. (Hyalina) Netsonensis. sp. 44, Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1870. ‘ Shell umbilicated, depressed, discoid, yery thin, obliquely and fine- ly striated, glossy; spire very slightly raised, apex obtuse, whorls 3}, last increasing, convex, depressed above, at the mouth inflated outwardly, slightly descending in front, base conyex faintly marked with indistinct strize ; umbilicus large ; aperture diagonal, almost roundly Iunate, peristome simple; margins approximating ; right flexuous basal slightly reflexed at the columellar. Diameter, greatest 0°15 ; least O-11 ; height 0-06 of an inch. Habitat. Mount Nelson, =:"————_—_——_——_____ TASMANIAN LAND SHELLS, 13 Heurx. (Charopa) Neauecra. sp. 47. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1870. Shell umbilicated, depressly-convex, thin, obliquely faintly and irregularly striated, whorls regularly marked above with alternate light red and brown segments ; spire slightly elevated, whorls 44, convex, excavated at the suture, the last not descending in front, base rounded, brown; umbilicus deep ; aperture roundly -lunate ; lip thin, acute ; margins distant basal not reflexed. ; Diameter, greatest 0:13 ; least 0-11 ; height 0.08 of an inch. Habitat. Knocklofty and Old Mill, Hobart Towu.— JM. F. Petterd. _ Foot of Mount Nelson.— W. Legrand. Mr. Brazier refers to Cox. Mon. of Australian Land Shells for a figure of this species. This is an error, the shell there figured is H, sitiens, Cox, see sp. 60.—W. L. ' ADDITIONS. et 12, H. Srncwaret. I have received from the Upper Huon and also from Bruni Island, a variety of this species in which the entire shell is yellow, with the exception of the spire, which is tinged with red. 14, H. Tasmanrz, Brown’s River.— Hall. | 24, H. rnuaa, Foot of Mount Nelson. Sorell.—G. Zuchman. Omit Oatlands, which is an error. 33, H. Ramscatensis, (very small), Near Mount Nelson. 59. H. quastiosa appears to form a link between Sinclair, ruga and Jampra, B. Tasmanrcus. Port Arthur.—Hurst. Island near Port Dayey.— Doherty. South Brunii— Atkinson; so that it has been found nearly all round the coast, with the exception of the unsettled part north of Macquarie Harbour, it is most probably there also. VY. Verreauxt is found on Mount Wellington near the Springs, about 2000 feet above the sea level, SuccineA Ausrratis. Prosser’s Plains.—Collis, Cambridge.— WL. Mr. Gould has collected V, Verreauci and also a Helix at Cape Barren Island. If new, the description will be published in the first supplement, ) Some of Mr Brazier’s descriptions (supplied by that gentleman as here printed), differ from those published in Pro, Zool. Soc. Kingi is there referred to Videna, a much more likely Tasmanian section than Aerope; the alteration in dispar is explained in the remarks to that species. In the reprint the variations will be mar- ked by brackets, ERRATA. 5. H. Hoparti., Erase Pl. XIT. Fig. 113 the shell is as yet unfigured. ; 35. H. Daveyensis. In measurement for height 0.02 read 0.20 of an inch. June, 1871 The lower figure represents the natural size of | erewersy Helix medianus. Cox. A ( — Allporti. — £ , f — austrinus, = : “4 4 — ccesus.. — : R 5 — ruga. an eae : 6 —_ occultus. == F : g — Agnewi. — * t gg — Sincelairi, young. Pfr. a : 10 — _ plexus, Cox. z _ il —_ fulgetrum. oo - 3 milage es vigens. . -- . ; 13 — Ramsgatensis, — : , 14 — Juliformis. — ee ; s Plate | From Nature & on Stone = Aa 5 T Leagh&C? imp hy Helena Forde. e g i PLATE I, The lower figure represents the natural size of the shell. Fig Species. Il Helix parvissima. Coz. - - ( 39 2 — fusco-radiata. — ; ; 3 «61 3 — _ tranquilla. — ; : 37 4 — Daveyensis. — : : : 35 5 — Kingstonensis, — : ‘ : 40 6 — _ trajectura. _ ; ° ; 36 7 — dubitans. — : - : 29 8 — Stephensi. —_ : . : 26 9 — Halli. — : : : 34 10 — _ positura. — : ; : 42 11 — = mixta. — 3 Beas 12 -— Atkinonii -—-- | 9d 13 — ccpta. — : - A 41 > 12° 14 — Sinclairi var. Pfr. : : Plate Il From Nature & on Stone ky Harriet Scott. S.T Leigh&C° imp. * * eo . os “ e + on * , a | ” es . . ~* 44. Hextx. (Hyalina) Netsonensis. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Sos, 1870. p. 661. (1871), — Shell umbilicated, depressed, discoid, very thin, obliquely and finely _ striated, glossy, rich tawny yellow ; spire slightly elevated, apex obtuse, whorls 34, last increasing, convex, slightly depressed, | above at the mouth, inflated outwardly, slightly descending in front, base convex, faintly marked with indistinct strie of a reddish horn-colour ; umbilicus moderately large ; aperture nearly — diagonal, almost ovately lunate ; peristome simple, thin, margins approximating, right flexuous, basal slightly reflexed at the colu- mella, , Diameter, greatest 0-15 ; Teast O-11; height 0-06 of an inch, -- __ Habitat, Mount Nelson.— Petterd. Recherche Bay, Port Davey— = W.L. Browu’s River—Hall. - : ss > All the specimens that I have seen from. Mount Nelson are ofa rich ” ee _ tawny yellow; shortly after I described it I was shown aspecimen " : ~ of the same from Port Davey from Mr. Legrand to Dr. Cox, it is distinguished from the type by being striated with red.— Brazier, “ ~ 45, Herrx. (Pitys) pisrar. Brazier, Pro, Zool. Soe, 1870. p.661, Shell umbilicated, depressly-convex, arcuately; coarsely, and sharply ~ ; ribbed, interstices with very fine radiating strie, bright, reddish horny ; spite conoidly obtuse, suture depressed ; whorls 5 to Tey aelie convex, last rounded, not descending, base convex, with radiating ~ ___ 8trize descending into the deep umbilicus ; interior of the aperture with a little oblong white prominent callous tooth nearly on the base 5 aperture vertical, semi-lunar; peristome simple, acute, margins joined by a thin callus, (in some specimens it is very prominent), basal margin not refentad Diameter, greate more specimens from to the sub-genus Pitys a 4 + " a j > 4 HELIX. 46. . Hentx. ( (Charopa) Onstowr. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870. Shell umbilicated, orbieu'arly depressed, very finely and ated y plicately striated, interstices smooth, covered with a reddish brown epidermis, not shining; spire aiilctiayy flat, suture grooved ; whorls 4}, convex, last rounded, slightly descending in front ; base convex, sculptured the same as the upper surface, and running into the umbilicus which is large, almost perspective ; aperture roundly- lunate ; peristome simple, acu‘e; margins distant, columellar margin not reflected at the base. Diameter, greatest 0-16 ; least 015 ; height 0°10 of an inch. Habitat, Mount Wellington, under leaves.—Petterd, Named after Captain Onslow, R.N. 47. Hexix. (Pitys) NEGLECTA, Bree Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870, p. 660. Shell umbilicated, depressly-convex, “thin, obliquely, faintly, and | irregularly striated ; whorls regularly marked above with alternate light-red and gam segments ; whorls 44, convex, excavated at the suture, the last not descending in front, base convex, brown ;_ umbilicus deep, aperture roundly—lunate ; lip thin, acute ; margins” nearly approximating, columellar margin not reflected. Diameter, greatest 0°13 ; least 0-11 5 height 0-08 of an inch, Habitat. Knocklofty val Old Mill, Hobart Town.— TW. 7, Peétterd. Foot of Mount Nelson. — JV.Z. Mr. Brazier refers to Cox. Mon. of Australian Land Shells, for a figure of this species. This is an error, the shell there figured is H, sitiens Com see sp. 60.— WL. The shell figured in Cox's Mon. of Australian Land Shells is not H. sitiens, Com, it is a shell figured from Helix Hobarti, as this will prove ; :—I have seen the type specimens of Helix Hobarté, Cox, in Sydney Museum, and mounted on the same glass are also a specimen of my H. neglecta, so that HZ. Hobarti is figured, and the red and brown segments are taken from H, ne eglecta, Mr. Legrand sent me a specimen of H. sittens, Cox, it is described ~ but not figured, (as the umbilicus of H. sitiens is rather largely and openly umbilicated, Cox), I can’t see it now; Dr. Cox says _in his note, this shell differs from H. Hobdarti in being less w idely _umbilicated, put Helix sitiens and Hobarti on pl. 12, fig. 11. in Cox Mon, of Australian Land Shells, and it will be seen at once that fig. 11, is Hobarti, and not what he says it is—Brazier. >. - HELIX, 48. Hetrx. (Charopa) Curagom. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870. Shell rather widely umbilicated, depressed, thin, very closely and finely plicately ribbed, interstices smooth, white, not shining, spire depressed, suture rather deep ; whorls 4}, rapidly increasing, con- vex, last large, rounded, not descending in front, base ribbed, same as upper surface, umbilicus perspective ; aperture oblique, _‘roundly-lunate ; peristome simple, thin, acute, columellar margin slizhtly reflected. Diameter, greatest 0-25 ; least 0:20 ; height 0°13 of an inch. Habitat, Near Mount Wellington.—Petterd, 49. Hetrx. (Charopa) Ricer. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870. Shell umbilicated, depressed, thin, very finely and regularly striated, interstices decussated, white, not shining ; spire depressed, suture rather moderately deep ; whorls 4, convex, last large, rounded, not descending ; base convex, with striz same as upper surface ; umbilicus large, funnel-shaped ; aperture ovately-lunate ;_peris- tome simple, acute, margins distant, basal slightly reflected over the umbilicus. Diameter, greatest 0-18 ; least 0-14 ; height 0-11 of an inch, Habitat, Foot of Mount Wellington.—Petterd. Named after Mr. G. T. Rice, of the South Sea Tsland curiosity shop, Sydney, This species comes very close to Helix Curacoe, Brazier, it differs from that species by its peculiar funnel-sha ed umbilicus, and the regular silky appearance of the strie.— Brazier, Q 50. Hextx. (Charopa) Basst. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1871. Helix ammonitoides, Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc. p. 661. 1870. Bhell umbilicated, flatly discoid, not shining, finely and prominently irregularly ribbed, the interstices with very fine strie, white beneath a thin brownish epidermis ; spire flat, suture slightly impressed ; whorls 3}, very regularly increasing, last rounded above and below, base convex, with strie the same as on upper surface ; umbilicus large, with the bottom flat, not very deep ; aper- ture oblique, roundly lunate ; peristome simple, the thin epidermis covering it, margins approximating. Diameter, greatest 0°11 ; least 0-10 ; height 0-05.of an inch, Habitat. Mount Nelson, Tasmania, under stones in moist places,— -Petterd, Dedicated to Mr. Bass, the intrepid voyager, who in an open whale boat, first explored the strait that bears his name, a ome ee: << hl lhl HELIX 51. Henix. (Charopx) rotrna, Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870. Shell with a small deep umbilicus, orbicularly-depressed, rather thin, shining, closely and finely striated, interstices decussated, rusty brown ; spire slightly raised, suture deep ; whorls 4}, con- vex, last rounded, not descending in front, base convex, closely and finely striated, excavated round the umbil'cus ; aperture roundly-lunate ; peristome simple, acute ; margins distant, the basal slightly reflexed, columellar margin not reflected, Diameter, greatest 0°19 ; least 0.15 ; height 0°10 of an inch. Habitat, Foot of Mount Wellington.—Pedélerd. . 52. Hetrx. (Videna) Kinet. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870. Shell umbilicated, convexly-depressed, rather thin, very closely and irregularly finely striated and decussated, not shining, brown, horny ; spire conoidly convex, obtuse at the apex, impressed at the suture ; whorls 5}, slightly convex, last large, depressed in front, somewhat angled at the periphery, base rounded and marked with decussating striz ; umbilicus deep, sub-compressed ; aperture slightly oblique, lunately-oval ; peristome simple, mar- gins approximating, columellar margin expanded and reflected. Diameter, greatest 0°37 ; least 0-29 5 height 0:30 of an inch, Habitat. Ringarooma, under logs.—Peéterd. Named after the late Captain King, R.N. 53, Hetrx. (Hemiplecta) Forver. Brazier, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1870. Shell perforated, convexly-depressed, thin, closely, finely, obliquely irregularly striated, horny-green ; whorls 4, convex, rapidly in- creasing, last the largest, keeled at the periphery, grooved at the suture ; spire slightly raised, acute ; base convex, moderately smooth ; aperture oblique, lunately-rounded ; peristome simple, margins distant, the columellar margin dilated and reflected, almost covering the small perforation. : Diameter, greatest 0°30 ; least 0-22 ; height 0-16 of an inch. Habitat, Springs, Mount Wellington.—Petterd. This species approaches in miniature Helicarion Sophie, Gaskoin, from Lord Howe’s Island.— Brazier. . is — ae A ‘ - il 7 " ’ { “ q i % j * Fs F i Fi + . 4 Ne . HELIX. 64. Hetix. (Pitys) Ancurrecronica. Brazier, n. s. Shell rather widely umbilicated, depressly-orbicular, thin, glassy, shining, regularly and closely arcuately ribbed, the interstices with very fine striw, spire rather elevated ; suture impressed ; whorls 5, moderately convex, last large, convex, descending a little in front ; base convex, sculptured same as upper surface ; umbilicus wide, rather narrow at the bottom ; aperture nearly vertical, roundly-lunate ; peristome simple, thin, acute ; margins approxi- mating, Diameter, maj. 14; min. 1}; alt. } line. Habitat, Near Hobart Town.— Petterd. ; This pretty little species is allied to Helix pexa, Cox, of New South Wales,—Brazier. 65, Hettx. (Videna) Pascoer. Brazies, n. s. Shell umbilicated, discoid, obliquely, closely, and very finely ribbed and transversely striated, interstices with much finer striae, not shining, dark reddish-horny ; spire quite flat, suture furrowed ; whorls 43, nearly flat, last large, roundly conrex ; base light brown, convex, sculptured same as upper surface ; umbilicus deep narrow with the striz running into it ; aperture diagonal, ovately-lunate ; peristome simple, thin, acute, regular ; margins rather approximating, columellar margin not expanded or reflected, Diameter, maj. 4 ; min, 3 ; alt. 1% lines, Habitat. Near Mount Wellington.—Petterd. This species is like a Planorbis in being flat, with the suture fur— rowed or deeply indented.— Brazier. 66. Hertx. (Pitys) asstmixts. Brazier, n. s. Shell widely umbilicated, depressed, sub-discoid, thin, diaphanous, glassy, shining, regularly and obliquely finely ribbed throughout ; interstices as seen under the lens with fine striw, dirty brown ; spire very little raised ; suture impressed ; whorls 5 to 55, moder- ately convex, last convex descending very little in front ; base. convex ; umbilicus wide and moderately deep, rounded at the bottom ; aperture oblique, roundly-lunate ; peristome straight, acute ; margins rather distant, right a little expanded ; columellar margin not reflected, | = Diameter, maj. 143 min. 12 ; alt. & line. Habitat, Near Hobart ‘Town.—Petterd. This species differs from H. Petterdi by being finely ribbed, and the interstices with fine strie. H. Petterdi is a species that is finely striated throughout.— Brazier, August, 1871. * ~ > HELIX. 67. Hetix. (Pitys) Petrervr. Brazier, u. s. Shell widely umbilicated, depressly—circular, thin, du!l brown, very minutely striated throughout with lines of growth, having a silky appearance; spire moderately elevated ; suture very much im- pressed ; whorls 5, rather convex, last not descending, roundly- convex ; base convex ; umbilicus nearly perspective, about one third of the diameter ; aperture oblique, roundly-lunate ; peris- tome straight, simple, acute ; margins distant. Diameter, maj. 2 lines ; min. 13; alt. 1 line. Habitat, Huon Road, near Hobart Town.—Petterd. I have received this species very often named as H. Legrandi with 4 other shells from Tasmania. H. Legrandi is allied to H. ‘uloidea, Forbes, and comes in the sub-genus Charopa. There is a pure white yariety of H. Petterdi that may be distinguished as Helix Peroni.— Brazier, 68. Hetrx. (Pitys) susrucosa. Brazier, n. 8. Shell rather widely umbilicated, somewhat depressly-orbicular, thin, shining, reddish-horny, subrugosely and obliquely striated, interstices with striae much finer ; spire elevated very little ; suture channelled or excavated ; whorls 5}, moderately convex, last flattened above the periphery in form of a furrow in front, the furrow is distinctly seen ; umbilicus wide at top, equalling 3 of the diameter ; base with strie same as upper surface ; aperture nearly diagonal, sub-triangularly-ovate ; peristome simple, mar- gins distant, right straight, sloping and expanded, basal slightly thickened and reflected. { Diameter, maj. 13; min. 14 ; alt. 1 line. Habitat. Near Hobart Town.—Petterd. _ Of this beautiful species I received two samples from Mr. Petterd, collected by him near Hobart Town ; it may be distinguished from any other known species by the bold projecting out of the ribs, by the interstices being of finer sculpture, and the depressed and furrowed appearance of the last whorl just above the peri- phery,— Brazier. August, 1871. =e - a ee r 69, Hetrx. (Videaa) Mitiieant. ‘Brasier, n. 8 Shell umbilicated, discoid, thin, closely and areuately ribbed, in- terstices with fine somewhat granular lines, not shining, pale horny-green ; spire depressed ; ; suture very little impressed ; whorls 4}, flatly convex, last large, convex ; base striated saine as ~ upper surface ; umbilicus deep and wide, basareloat shaped, with the stria running into it ; aperture oblique, lunately-ovate ; peris- tome simple, acute ; margins rather distant, right expanded ; columellar margin Rental a little over the edge of the umbilicus. Dian ler, maj. 5 lines ; min. 43; alt. 24 lines. Habitat. Mount Wellington.—Petterd. I have named this in honour of Dr. Milligan, whose indefatigable exertions in the cause of science have made us acquainted with many new and rare Tasmanian shells ; it is allied to H. Hamil- toni, Cox, but differs from that species, by the last whorl being larger, and in its sculpture throughout the shell.—Brazier, 70, Hexrx. (Videna) Froopr. Brazier, n. 8. Shell deeply and widely umbilicated, convexly depressed, trans- lucent, not shining, finely and irregularly striated with silky-like strix, and as seen under the lens minute spiral strim, light horny- green, nearly white ; spire rather small, very little elevated ; whorls 5, antharietee convex, last very large and inflated, roundly-convex, not descending in front ; base conyex, with stri same as upper surface ; aperture diagonal, lunately-rounded ; t peristome simple, thin, awit 5 margins approximating, right very __ little depressed ; columellar margin recurved and reflected, Diameter, maj, 43; min, 4 ; alt. 3 lines. Habitat, Mount Wellington.— Petterd. Named after my friend Mr. William Flood, R.N., formerly secre- tary to Sir W. ‘Wiseman, C. B., of H.MS.S, Gina when on the Australian Blatod Braet : " August, 1871. - -'s wef a~* * : t i : ee PLANORBIS.—Guettard. =) ? Mekixieys Legrand. ‘Shell discoidal, small, slightly polished, marked with extremely fine ~ Tines of growth, yellowish brown, whotls 4 to 4}, roundly keeled: -conyex above, more so below, slowly enlarging ; ; spire depressed, ‘fature deep ; umbilicus deep ; aperture almost ovate ; nearly equal _ above and ae Dawe greatest 0°20 ; least 0-17 5 herght 0:05 of an inch. Habitat. Water a near the Ouse.— Masters, Reservoir; Hobart Towu.—¥, ANport. “There is a Victosian species of about the same size, but in that species tle shell is flatter, of a lighter colour, the whorls are from 3 to 34, which are acutely keeled, and increase more rapidly than in the present species ; the umbilicus is also shallower. —_— 2. P, mintasa, Lejrand. | Shell very small, discoidal, thin, slightly shining, striated with fine lines of growth, whorls 34 io 4, rounded, aperture almost round. Diameter greatest 0°037 ; least 0°036 ; height 0°02 of an inch. Habitat. Water holes near the Ouse —Jasters. July, 1871, be [From the Prockepines oF THE ZooLoarcaL Society or Lonpon, November 21, 1871.) i ee EEEEEEE IEEE Descriptions of seven new Species of the Genus Helix, and of two Fluviatile Shells from Tasmania. By Joun Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 1, Hevrx (Pirys) ARCHITECTONICA. Shell rather widely umbilicated, depressedly orbicular, thin, glassy, shining, regularly and closely arcuately ribbed, the interstices very finely striated; spire rather elevated, suture impressed; whorls 9, convex, last large, convex, descending a little in front; base convex, sculptured the same as the upper surface; umbilicus wide, rather narrow at the bottom; aperture nearly vertical, roundly lunate ; peristome simple, thin, acute, margins approximating. - Diam. maj. 14, min. 14, alt. ? line. Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania (Petterd). : wae little species is allied to Helix pera, Cox, from New South 2. Hevrx (Prrys) peTrerpt. Shell widely umbilicated, depressedly circular, thin, dull brown, very minutely striated throughout with lines of growth, giving it a silky appearance; spire moderately elevated, apex obtuse, suture very much spread: ; whorls 5, rather convex, last not descending, - convex, base convex ; umbilicus nearly perspective, about one third of the diameter; aperture oblique, rodmaty nate ; peristome straight, simple, thin, acute, margins distant. Diam. maj. 2 lines, min. 14, alt. 1 line. Hab. Huon Road, near Hobart Town, Tasmania; found under chips (Petterd). . : [1] 697 MR.J. BRAZIER ON SEVEN NEW SPECIES OF HELIX. [ Noy. 21, I have very often received this species under the name of H. legrandi, Cox ; the species described by Cox is allied to H. juloidea, Forbes, which with Helix onslowi and H., roteila, Brazier, belong to the subgenus Charopa, whereas H. petterdi is quite distinct from any other known species from Tasmania. 3. Hexrx (Pirys) ASSIMILIs. Shell widely umbilicated, subdiscoidal, thin, diaphanons, glassy, shining, regularly and obliquely finely ribbed throughout, interstices as seen under the lens finely striated, dirty brown; spire very little raised, apex obtuse, suture impressed ; whorls 5 to 53, moderately conyex, last convex, descending a little in front, base convex ; umbi- licus wide and moderately deep, rounded at the bottom; aperture oblique, roundly lunate ; peristome simple, straight, acute; margins rather distant, right very little expanded, columellar margin not re flected. Diam. maj. 14, min. J}, alt. $ line. Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania (Peééerd). This species differs from H. petterdi in being finely ribbed, and in having the interstices finely striated; the preceding species is finely striated throughout with lines of growth, the interstices being searcely perceptible. 4. Hewrx (Pirys) suBRUGOSA. Shell rather widely umbilicated, somewhat depressedly orbicular, thin, shining, reddish-horny, subrugosely and obliquely striated, the interstices much more finely striated; spire very little elevated, apex obtuse, suture channelled ; whorls 53, moderately convex, last flat- tened above the periphery in form of a furrow, the groove being di- stinctly seen in front; umbilicus wide at the top, three fourths of the diameter, base convex, striated the same as the upper surface ; aperture nearly diagonal, subtriangularly ovate ; peristome simple; margins distant, right straight, sloping and expanded, basal slightly thickened and reflected. Diam. maj. 12, min. 14, alt. 1 line. Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania (Petterd). This beautiful little species I received from Mr. W. Petterd; it may be distinguished very easily by the bold projection of the ribs, — and by the interstices being of finer sculpture; the last whorl above the periphery is also depressed and has a furrowed appearance. 5. Hexrx (VIDENA) FLOODI. Shell deeply and widely umbilicated, convexly depressed, thin, translucent, not shining, finely and irregularly striated with silky strize, and, as seen under the lens, minutely spirally striated, light horny green, nearly white; spire rather small, very little elevated ; whorls 5, moderately convex, last very large and inflated, roundly convex, not descending in front; base convex, striated the same as the ae surface; aperture diagonal, lunately rounded ; peristome 2 1871.] MR. J. BRAZIER ON SEVEN NEW SPECIES OF HELIX. 698 simple, thin, acute; margins approximating, right very little de- pressed, basal margin recurved and reflected. Diam. maj. 44, min. 4, alt. 3 lines. Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania. This species I have named after my friend and fellow voyager Mr. William Flood, R.N., late of Her Majesty’s Steam-ship ‘ Cu- racoa.’ 6. Hetrx (VipENA) MILLIGANT. Shell umbilicated, discoidal, thin, closely and accurately ribbed; in- terstices striated with fine granular-like lines, not shining, pale horny green; spire depressed, suture very little impressed ; whorls 44, flatly convex, last large, inflated, convex, base striated the same as the upper surface; umbilicus deep and wide, sugarloaf-shaped, with the strie running into it; aperture oblique, lunately ovate; peristome simple, thin, acute, straight ; margins rather distant, right expanded, colu- mellar margin recurved a little over the edge of the umbilicus. Diam. maj. 5, min. 44, alt. 23 lines. Hab. Mount Wellington, Tasmania (Petéerd). Named in honour of Dr. Milligan, whose indefatigable exertions in the cause of science have made us acquainted with many new and rare Tasmanian shells. 7. Hextx (VipENA) PASCOEI. Shell umbilicated, discoidal, obliquely closely and very finely ribbed, spirally striated, the interstices as seen under the lens with fine silky stria, not shining, dark reddish horny; spire quite flat, suture fur- rowed ; whorls 44, nearly flat, last large, roundly convex ; base light brown, convex, sculptured the same as the upper surface ; umbilicus deep and narrow, with the strize running into it; aperture diagonal, ovately lunate; peristome simple, thin, acute, regular; margins rather approximating, right scarcely expanded, basal margin not re- flected. Diam. maj. 4, min. 3, alt. 14 lines. Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania (Pefterd). This species is quite flat, like a Planorbis, with the suture fur- rowed or deeply indented. 8. PALUDESTRINA LEGRANDIANA. Shell elongately conical, thin, semipellucid, greenish horn-colour under a dark epidermis ; whorls 6}, somewhat flattened, the last three keeled below the suture, and furnished with small, solid, stunted, hair-like spines (as seen under the lens) of a bright trans- parent horn-colour, flattened on the top; aperture ovate, margins continuous, thickened, outer lip reflected. Length 23 lines, breadth 11 line. Hab. Salmon-ponds, New Norfolk, Tasmania (Legrand). This species is allied to Paludestrina salleana, Fischer, from Auckland, New Zealand. [3] 699 MR. J. BRAZIER ON SEVEN NEW SPECIES OF HELIX. [Noy.2l, 9. PALUDESTRINA WISEMANIANA. e, Shell elongately conical, thin, semidiaphanous, epidermis light green; apex acute; whorls 6 to 63, convex, smooth, grooved at the — = suture; aperture ovate; margins continuous, moderately thickened, columellar margin reflected, outer lip edged with green and reflected, Length 2 lines, breadth 1 line. ; | Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania; common in all the creeks (Legrand and Petterd). I take this opportunity of correcting a few errors that I have made in a previous paper in these ‘ Proceedings.’ | Helix (Charopa) ammonitoides to be altered to Helix (Charopa) — basst.—Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 661. | Helix (?}Charopa) dispar to be altered to Helix (Pitys) dispar. —Proe. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 661. This species is the only one I know of in ‘Tasmania with the small tooth in the interior of the aperture. We have 1. disulcata, sail to come from the same locality, but none so small as the present species, which s somewhat like one that I have from Norfolk Island. A second communication from Mr. John Brazier, contained some remarks on previously described species of Land-Shells, and stated that Helix quintale of Cox, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 82, should have been written guintali, having been named at Mr. Brazier’s request in honour of Mr. Arthur Quintal, jun., of Norfolk Island; also that Helix ardua, Cox, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 82, had been collected by Mr. Brazier at Vanua Lava, Banks’s Group, as well as at Erromanga. The name /Zeliz vanne lave, Cox, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 82 (lege vanue lave) was stated to be a misnomer, the species not occurring in the island of that name. [From the PRoceEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society or Lonpon, November 7, 1871.] ———__—$—_—_ ——_ Descriptions of eight new Australian Land-Shells. By Joun Brazier, C.MZ.S. ], Herrx (HApRA) DARWINI. Shell umbilicated, depressedly globose, very thin, finely granulated and radiately striated ; spire moderately elevated, obtuse ; whorls 5, slowly increasing, convex, last roundly convex, slightly descending in front, dirty yellow; base convex, sculptured the same as the upper surface; umbilicus rather small, deep; aperture diagonal, ovately lunate ; peristome very little reflected, white ; margins approximating and joined by a thin callus, columellar margin reflected and half co- vering the umbilicus. Diam. maj. 7, min. 54, alt. 4 lines. Hab. North coast of Australia (coll. Brazier). I received two specimens of this species from a friend who col- lected them in the far north of Australia; but the precise locality was not sent with them. It is allied to Helix forsteriana, Pfr., from North-east Australia. 2. Hexix (HapRA) STEPHENSONIANA, Shell umbilicated, turbinately globose, somewhat pellucid, of a fine straw-colour, faintly and obliquely striated, rather puckered at the suture; spire subconoid ; whorls 54, moderately convex, last convex and inflated, deflected in front; base convex; aperture oblique, lu- nately circular; peristome light pink, straight; margins approxi- mating, upper margin rather thickened and expanded, columellar margin arcuate and reflexed, covering half the umbilicus, which is deep aud moderately large. iam. maj. 9, min. 74, alt. 6 lines. Hab. Port Denison, Queensland, North-east coast of Australia (coll. Brazier). Rare. is species is of a fine straw-yellow colour on the last whorl, | the other whorls being nearly white; the lip is of a light pink colour. I only know of one specimen, which is in my own cabinet. 3. Henrx (HapRA) BENNETTI. Shell umbilicated, depressedly globose, very thin, finely rugosely striated and minutely granulated, dark-yellowish horny ; are rather ] 640 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW AUSTRALIAN LAND-SHELLS, [ Novy. 7, conoid, obtuse; whorls 6, moderns convex, rapidly increasing, last — convex and inflated in front, slightly descending ; nmbilicud) tae re deep, and slanting ; aperture oblique, lunately ovate, interior of aper-_ ture of a bright flesh tinge; peristome simple, white, straight; margins approximating and joined by a thin callus, right i dilated, columellar margin broadly expanded and reflected, covering one third of the umbilicus. Diam. maj. 8, min. 632, alt. 5 lines. Hab. Ipswich, Queensland, inland 50 miles from Brisbane: rare — (coll. Brazier). I possess two specimens of this species, which approaches near to H, prunum, Fér., from Port Darwin and Port Essington, also to H. greenhilli, Cox, from the Dawson River. I have named it with great pleasure in honour of Dr. George Bennett, F.L.S., whose inde- fatigable exertions in the cause of science have made us acquainted with many new and rare specimens of natural history from Australia and the Polynesian Islands. 4. Hexix (TRACHIA) ENDEAYOURENSIS. Shell umbilicated, depressed, rather thin, very closely, regularly, ond finely striated, shining, pale horny; spire rather prominent; suture slightly impressed ; whorls 53, moderately convex, last roundly con- yex, inflated and deflexed in front ; base convex and striated the same as the upper surface ; umbilicus rather wide and deep; aperture oblique, lunately ovate; peristome thickened and reflected, ti with flesh-colour; margins approximating, right margin ex thin, straight, columellar margin reflected a little over the umbilicus. Diam. maj. 7, min. 5, alt. 33 lines. Hab. Endeavour River, north coast of Australia (coll. Brazier). ‘There is only one specimen of this species that I know of, and in my collection ; it is of a much larger size than H. torrestana, Homb. et Jacq., and the sculpture is also very fine, whereas in the species of the French authors the sculpture is coarse. 5. Hexiix (CAM&ZNA) AUREEDENSIS. Shell umbilicated, depressedly globose, rather solid, very finely ob- liquely striated, and, under the lens finely granulated, dark chestnut; suture ornamented with a fine white thread, and also a broad di white undefined zone round the umbilicus; spire broadly i obtuse; whorls 6 to 64, convex, the five upper whorls of a reddish chestnut, the last increasing in size, rounded and deflected in front; base convex; aperture diagonally ovately lunate, brownish white within ; peristome straight, ivory-white, slightly thickened and re- flected ; margins approximating, right margin expanded, columellar margin arcuate and reflexed, concealing nearly half of the umbilicus, which is deep. Diam. maj. 13, min. 14, alt. 1 inch. Hab. Aureed Island, Torres Strait, North coast of Australia (coll. Brazier and Hargraves). This species I have seen in some of the Australian collections ~ 1871.] MR. J, BRAZIER ON NEW AUSTRALIAN LAND-SHELLS. 641 labelled as a variety of H. incei, Pfr., but H. incei has no white thread-like line at the suture as in the present species. 6. Herrx (HyGromiA) BEDNALLI. Shell perforated, rather conoidly globose, very thin, fragile, ob- liquely rugose at the upper part, granulated under the lens, sub- diaphanous, light horny green, with a fine reddish ring encircling the suture, and a rather broad one of the same colour encircling the per- foration ; spire conoid, somewhat obtuse ; whorls 5 to 5}, moderately conyex, the last very much inflated, rounded; base convex, muc smoother than the upper surface ; eperture obliquely lunar, rather large ; peristome thin, of a pinkish colour; margins distant, right ex- panded, columellar margin reflected and covering one quarter of the perforation. Diam. maj. 8, min. 6}, alt. 5 lines. Hab. Near Adelaide, South Australia (Waterhouse and Bednall ; in South Australian Museum and coll. Brazier). — This species I received from my two friends Messrs. Waterhonse and Bednall, under the name of Helix adelaide, Pfr. The Helix adelaide is a small depressed species, keeled, and with the umbilicus perspective. Helix bednalli I have compared with some hundreds of Hi. grayi, Pfr., and H. jervisensis, Quoy and Gaimard, and find sufficient characters to warrant it to rank as a distinct species. The note sent by Mr. Waterhouse with his specimens states that it is a species yery rarely obtained in a good state of preservation. 7. Heirx (CHAROPA) SUBDEPRESSA. Shell umbilicated, depressed, nearly discoid, thin, closely covered with fine silky striee, the interstices under the lens with still finer strie, rather oblique, shining white; spire flat, suture channelled ; whorls 53, rather convex, last angled and descending in front; um- bilicus wide, rather perspective, and rounded at the bottom, equal- ling more than half of the diameter; basal whorl convex, with striz the same as on the upper surface, and running into the umbilicus ; aperture nearly vertical ; peristome simple, acute, triangularly ovate ; margins distant, right straight, slightly expanded, columellar margin not reflected. Diam. maj. 14, min. 1, alt. } line; diam. of umbilicus # line. : Hab. ‘en River, Gipps Land, Victoria (Mr. W. Kershaw ; coll. razier). This interesting little species is pure white, and is found in the snowy Australian region that divides New South Wales from Victoria. 8. Butimus (Liparvs) KERSHAWI. Shell imperforate, ovate, thin, diaphanous, shining, dark yellowish brown, marked with numerous longitudinal and irregular dark yellow and brown lines, some broad and some very narrow, rather running one into the other ; and under the lens are to be seen longitudinal and transverse small granulations ; spire moderately conical, rather obtuse at the apex ; suture crenulated ; whorls 5, convex, the last inflated, [3] 642 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW AUSTRALIAN LAND-SHELLS. [ Noy. 7, equalling more than one half of the length of the whole shell ; aper- ture broadly ovate, interior bluish white; peristome simple, acute, straight, thin, the anterior and outer margins arched; columella straight, nearly vertical above, slightly expanded and reflected, with a thin deposit of callus on the columellar side, and joined at the upper part of the peristome. Length 2, breadth 14, alt. 1 ; aperture 14 long, breadth @ inch. Hab. Snowy River, Gipps Land, Victoria (Mr. W. Kershaw). This fine species I have named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. W. Kershaw of Victoria, to whom I am indebted for a specimen. It approaches in appearance to B. larreyi, Brazier, and B. atomatus, Gray. It differs from those species in not having the dark spots and zigzag lines that are so characteristic in them. {4} (From the PRocEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society oF LONDON, ‘ June 23, 1870.) Notes on two Australian Land-shells. By Joun Brazier. Herix (GALAXIAS) MEADEI. Helix edwardsi, Cox, Mon. Austr. Land-shells, p. 109, pl. 19. f.3./68 Hab. The banks of the Liverpool River, Arnheim’s Land, North Coast of Australia (Coll. Brazier). _ The specific name is altered, because Mr. Bland described in 1858 an American species under the name of H. edwardsi. Hextx (Patuna) sTELLATA. ; Helix (Discus) similis, Cox, Mon. Austr. Land-shells, p. 23, pl. 12. 12 Hab. Mount Wellington, Tasmania (Masters and Petterd). The change in the specific name is necessary, as C. B. Adams Peete Varinica Helix similis many years ago. | From the PROCEEDINGS oF THE ZooLoaicaL Society or Lonpon, June 23, 1870.) a —~ Descriptions of Ten New Species of Land-shells, collected by Mr. W. F. Petterd, of Hobart Town, Tasmania. By Joun Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 1, Herrx (CHAROPA) CURAGO4, 0. Ss. Shell rather widely umbilicated, depressed, thin, yery closely and finely plicately ribbed, interstices smooth, white, not shining; spire 1 660 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND-SHELIS. [June 23, depressed, suture rather deep ; whorls 43, rapidly increasing, convex, last large, rounded, not descending in front, base convex, ribbed the same as the upper surface ; umbilicus perspective ; aperture oblique, roundly lunate; peristome simple, thin, acute, columellar margin slightly reflected. iam. maj. 0°25, min. 0°20, alt. 0°13 une. Hab. Near Mount Wellington, Tasmania (Coll. Brazier). _ This fine species I have named in honour of Her Majesty’s steam- ship ‘ Curagoa.’ 2. Heiix (CHAROPA) RICEI, 0. 8. Shell umbilicated, depressed, thin, very finely and regular] striated, interstices decussated, white, not shining; spire dep suture moderately deep ; whorls 4, convex, last large, rounded, base convex, striated the same as the upper surface; umbilicus large, funnel-shaped ; aperture ovately lunate; peristome simple, acute, margins distant, basal slightly reflected over the umbilicus. Diam. maj. 0°18, min. 0°14, alt. 0°11 une. Hab. Foot of Mount Wellington, Tasmania (Coll. Brazier). This species comes very close to Helix curacgoe; it differs from that species by its peculiar funnel-shaped umbilicus and the regular silky appearance of the striee. 3. Hertrx (CHAROPA) ROTELLA, 0D. 8. Shell with a deep umbilicus, orbicularly depressed, rather thin, shining, closely and finely striated, interstices decussated, rusty brown; spire slightly raised, suture deep; whorls 43, convex, last rounded, not descending in front, base convex, closely and finely sculptured, excavated round the umbilicus ; aperture roundly lunate; peristome simple, margins distant, columellar margin not reflected. Diam. maj. 0°19, min. 0°15, alt. 0°10 une. Hab. Foot of Mount Wellington, Tasmania (Coll. Brazier). 4. Hextrx (CHAROPA) ONSLOWI, R. 8. Shell umbilicated, orbicularly depressed, very finely and closely plicately striated, covered with a eoeaaaine epidermis, under the epidermis white, not shining ; spire moderately flat, suture grooved ; whorls 43, convex, last slightly descending, base convex, sculptured the same as the upper surface and running into the umbilicus, which is large, almost perspective; aperture roundly lunate; peristome simple, columellar margin not reflected at the base. Diam. maj. 0°16, min. 0°15, alt. 0°10 une. Hab. Mount Wellington, Tasmania, under leaves (Coll. Brazier). 5. Herrx (Cuaropa) NEGLECTA, N. s. Shell umbilicated, depressedly convex, thin, obliquely faintly and irregularly striated ; whorls regularly marked above with alter- nate light-red and brown segments; whorls 44, convex, excavated at Soho the last not descending, base convex, brown; umbi- 1870.] MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. 661 licus deep ; aperture roundly lunate; peristome thin, acute, margins nearly approximating, columellar margin not reflected. Diam. maj. 0°13, min. 0-11, alt. 0°08 une. : Hab. Knocklofty; also the Old Mill, Hobart Town, Tasmania, under logs (Coll. Brazier). This species comes near to H. tasmanie, Cox, from Mount Wel- lington—a rare shell to obtain; whereas H. neglecta is a very common species in the localities I have given. 6. Hetrx (CHAROPA) AMMONITOIDES, 0. 8. Shell umbilicated, flatly discoid, not shining, finely and promi- nently irregularly ribbed, the interstices with very fine strie, white beneath a thin Hraniial epidermis ; spire flat, suture slightly im- pressed; whorls 33, very regularly increasing, last rounded above and below, base convex, with striee the same as on upper surface ; umbilicus large, with the bottom flat, not very deep ; aperture ob- lique, roundly lunate ; peristome simple, the thin epidermis covering it, Margins approximating. Diam. maj. 0°11, min. 0°10, alt. 0°5 une. Hab. Mount Nelson, Tasmania, under stones in moist places (Coll. Brazier). _ This little species has the appearance of an Ammonite in form ; but it must not be confounded with Helix ammonitoides of Reeve, which is only a synonym of Helix omicron, Pfr. 7. Hexrx (?Cuaropa) DISPAR, 0. 8. Shell umbilicated, depressedly convex, arcuately, coarsely, and sharply ribbed, interstices with very fine radiating striw, bright, horny; spire conoidly obtuse, suture depressed; whorls 5 to 54, convex, last rounded, not descending, base convex, with radiating strize descending into the deep umbilicus ; interior of the aperture with a little oblong white prominent callous tooth nearly on the base; aperture vertical, semilunar ; peristome simple, acute, margins joined by a thin callus (in some specimens prominent), basal in not reflected. Diam. maj. 0°13, min. 0°11, alt. 0°11 une. Hab. Mount Wellington, Tasmania, under leaves (Coll. Brazier). This species is the only one I know of in Tasmania with the small tooth in the interior of the aperture. We have H. biscutata, said to come from the same locality, but none so small as the present little species, which is somewhat like a small species that I have from Norfolk Island. 8. Henrx (HYALINA) NELSONENSIS, 0. s. Shell umbilicated, depressed, very thin, shining, pellucid, obliquely and finely striated; spire slightly elevated, obtuse; whorls 34, last increasing, convex, slightly depressed above at the mouth, base convex, faintly marked with indistinct strie of a reddish horn-colour ; umbilicus moderately large; aperture nearly diagonal, ae 3 662 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. [June 23, _ ovately lunate; peristome thin, simple, margins approximating co. lumellar very slightly dilated above. : Diam. maj. 0°15, min. 0°11, alt. 0:06 unc. ! Hab. Mount Nelson, Tasmania (Coll. Brazier), 9, Hexix (ViDENA) KINGI, 0. 8, Shell umbilicated, convexly depressed, rather thin, very closely and irregularly finely striated and decussated, not shining, brown; spire conoidly convex, obtuse at the apex, impressed at the suture; whorls 54, convex, last large, depressed in front, somewhat angled at the periphery, base rounded and marked with in strize; umbilicus deep, subcompressed; aperture slightly o lunately oval; peristome simple, margins approximating, columell, margin expanded and reflected. Diam. maj. 0°37, min. 0°29, alt. 0°30 unc. Hab. Ringarooma, Tasmania, under logs (Coll. Brazier). 10. Hexurx (Hemrriecra) FORDEI, 0. s. Shell perforated, convexly depressed, thin, closely, finely, ob- liquely, irregularly striated, horny green ; spire slightly raised, acute; whorls 4, convex, increasing, last large, ved at the suture, keeled at the periphery, base convex, moderately smooth ; aperture obli lunately rounded; peristome simple, margins distant, colum margin dilated and reflected, almost covering the small perforation. Diam. maj. 0°30, min. 0°22, alt. 0°16 une. Hab. Springs, Mount Wellington, Tasmania (Coll. Brazier). This species approaches in miniature Helicarion sophie, Gaskoin, from Lord Howe’s Island. [4] [ From the Procrepinas or THE Zoo.oaicar Socrery or Lonpon, March 11, 1869.) * Observations on the Distribution of Bulimus miltocheilus in the Solomon’s* Archipelago. By Joun Brazier, of Sydney, New South Wales. (Communicated by the Secretary.) BuLImMus MILTOCHEILUS. Bulimus miltocheilus, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 49. fig. 322; Deshayes in Fér. vol. ii. p. 105, pl. 154. figs. 3&4; Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. vol. iii. p. 372, and vol. iv. p. 440; Chenu, Manuel de Conch. part. i. fig. 3216. | Aspastus miltocheilus, Albers, Heliceen, first edition, p. 149. Otostomus miltocheilus, H. & oo Adams, Recent Mollusca, vol. ii. p- 151. : During my visit to the Solomon’s archipelago in H.M.S. *Curacgoa,’ under the command of my esteemed friend Commodore Sir William Wiseman, C.B., in the months of August and Septem- ber 1865, I found that Bulimus miltocheilus is not only met with at Port Makera, San Christoval Island, but also on two other islands in the archipelago. On the Island of Sesarga or Contraietés (situated 9° 48! S. lat., 162° 8' 10" E. long.) I believe I was the first that ever landed in search of conchological specimens; and I was well rewarded by finding B. miltocheilus on a species of palm tree about twenty feet from the ground. ‘The next island that we visited is one known by the name of Golfe Island; the native name is Ugi; here B. miltocheilus is found in thousands on the palm trees. ‘Ihe third place that we visited was Wanga Bay, San Chris- toval Island ; here we found this Bulimus rather scarce, not getting more than thirty specimens. At this spot they are found on leaves of buskes and other small plants, quite vigorous and crawling about, where the land is very low and damp. The next place that we visited was Recherche Bay, San Christoval Island, where the land is very high on the coast. ‘l'o obtain B. miltocheilus you must go three or four miles inland; here it is found on a broad-leaved tree, but * Recent writers on the Mollusca of this archipelago (such as Pfeiffer and others) make use of the term ‘! Salomon” Islands; it should be Solomon's Archi- pelago or Islands. [1] + 163 MR. J. BRAZIER ON BULIMUS is rather rare. At Port Achard it is fov used by the natives to make necklaces of, or their waist in their war-dances. It is always Helix merziana and H. cleryi. The most northe Sesarga or Contraietés, the southern limit is San Christe cimens vary much both in colour and in size. ak oe -— + {From the ProcEEDINGs oF THE ZooLoaicaL Society or Lonpon, April 18, 1871.) ——- Notes on recently described Shells. By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 1, DoLABRIFERA BRAZIERI. Dolabrifera brazieri, Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 250. Hab. Northhead, Botany Bay, on the south-east coast of Aus- [1] 322 MR.J. BRAZIER ON RECENTLY DESCRIBED SHELLS. [Apr. 18. _ tralia. Mr. Sowerby unfortunately places Botany Bay on the south- west coast. Since I obtained the two specimens that Mr. Sowerby mentions, I have obtained six more at the Bottle-and-Glass Rocks, Port Jackson. The animal at present I have not examined. 2. Heirx (TROCHOMORPHA) FESSONIA. Helix (Trochomorpha) fessonia, Angas, Proc. Zool Soc. 1869, p. 626, pl. 48. fig. 7. Trochomorpha transarata, Mousson, Journal de Conch. 1870, part i. p. 121, pl. 7. fig. 1. Hab. Kantavu, Fiji Islands, on trees (Brazier) ; interior of Viti Levu, or Great Fiji (Grae). 3. Hexicina (TROCHATELLA) TECTIFORMIS. viens tectiformis, Mousson, Journal de Conch. April 1, p. 199, pl. 8. fig. 7. Helicina mangoénsis, Sowerby, Proc. Zool. Soc. April 28, 1870, p. 290. Hab. Mango Island, Fijis (Brazier). I presume that this species, described by M. Mousson, was also obtained at Mango by Griiffe. 4, He Licina PRIeCATITIS. nonpea ate Helicina norfolkensis, Pfeiffer, . Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 391; Pfr. Mon. Pneu. Vivent. suppl. 1, p. 189, and suppl. 2, p. 220; Sowerby, Thes. Conch. vol. ii. p. 292, oe 373 & 374. Helicina plicatilis, Mousson, Journal de Conch. 1864, p. 178. Hab. Upolu, Navigator’s Islands ; found inland on trees (Brazier). No Helicina has been found on Norfolk Island up to the present time, and the locality given to this species by the late Mr. H. Cuming is incorrect. I visited that island seventeen years ago, and a second time only six years ago. There are only two operculated ee ae on it, Palaina covi, H. Adams, and Omphalotropis ceres, Pfr. 5. CotuMBELLA (MITRELLA) ANGASI. Columbella interrupta, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 56, pl. 2. figs. 9 & 10. Hab. Shark Island, Port Jackson (coll. Brazier) ; York’s Penin- sula, South Australia (Mr. G. F’. Angas) ; Hobart Town, Tasmania (W. F. Petterd). Mr. Gaskoin described a Columbella interrupta in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851; as the species described by Mr. Angas requires a fresh name, I have called it after him. [2] [From the ProceeDINGs or THE ZooLoGicaL Society or Lonpon, April 18, 1871.] a PT — Descriptions of two new Species of Land-Shells from the Bellengen River, New South Wales. By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 1, HeLIx BELLENGENENSIS, Sp. nov. Shell umbilicated, depressedly orbicular, nearly discoid, rather thin, tadiately striated; between the raised strize very finely punctured, dark chestnut, and covered with a fine silky epidermis ; whorls 44, moderately convex, rather flattened at the suture, keeled at the periphery ; base convex, rather finely striated; aperture subqua- drately ovate ; peristome white, in some specimens of a faint pink tinge, moderately reflected ; margins approximating, the upper Sejeetuis in front; columellar portion partly covering the deep umbilicus. Diameter—greatest 43 lin., least 4, alt. 23 lin. Hab. Manarm Creek, Bellengen River. (coll. Brazier) ; very rare. This fine rare species I found on standing dead trees ( Lucalypti), under the bark five feet from the ground. I also obtained a few under logs on the ground; it likes very wet places. 2. BULIMUS LARREYI, Sp. NOv. Shell imperforate, ventricose, ovate, very thin, transparent, trans- versely and finely marked with dark interrupted lines ; apex obtuse ; whorls 4 to 43, convex, last equalling more than one-half of the entire length ; suture slightly grooved ; sla the suture an interrupted yel- lowish band tessellated with dark spots ; aperture oval, interior glossy ; peristome simple, acute; columella slightly recurved and reflected. Length 1 inch 2 Jin., breadth 6 lin. ; aperture 6} lin., width 4 lin. Hab, Manarm Creek, Bellengen River, under burnt logs; very rare (coll. Brazier). This interesting and new species of Bulimus differs from any of our known species in being of so light and inflated a form, and in the characteristic tessellated black spots at the suture. The first specimen that I obtained of it was on my recent tour to the Bellen- gen, called by some Bellenger and Billinger River, two hundred miles to the north of Sydney: it was collected by my intelligent aboriginal guide King Larrey. During my stay of two months we only found four specimens; since my return to Sydney I have received two more from him. The animal is of an umber colour, full of wrinkles, with three black stripes, one from each tentacle, and one down the centre of the back, running longitudinally. S55. Notes on the Localities of Dolium melanostoma and other Shells found in Australia and the adjacent Islands and _ in the Australian Seas. By Jouy Brazier, C.M.Z.S. 1. Conus RHopopENpRON. Conus rhododendron, Couthouy, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York. Conus adamsoni, Gray, MS. British Museum, Conus cingulatus, Sowerby, Tankerville Catalogue, Appendix, p. 34; Conch. Ilust. f. 108. Conus adamsoni, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 4, species 22. Conus rhododendron, Sowerby, Thes. h. vol. iii. frontispiece, fig. 504, p. 38, species 329. | Conus adamsoni, Chenu, Manuel de Conch. part 1, titlepage two s, and page 249, figs. 1527 & 1528. Hab. Bampton Reef and shoals, South Pacific Ocean, in lat., 19° 51’ S., long. 158° 20' E. (coll. Brazier). i _ This fine and very rare species, described first by Couthouy, is not found on the Australian coast as stated by Mr. Reeve, Sowerby, and others. Of the fine variety figured by Chenu, I have only seen one specimen ; and that was in the collection of my friend Mr, Har- graves. Of the type I have had four examples. As it is a deep- water shell, it is only found after heavy gales on the Reef, along with Coni crocatus, floccatus, vitulinus, Voluta thatcheri, Strombi pacificus, samar, and thersites, and Pyrazus gourmyt. 2. DoLiuM MELANOSTOMA. _Dolium melanostoma, Jay, Mus. Cat. 1839, p. 124, pls. 8 & 9; Reeve Conch. Icon. 1848, pl. 2. fig. 2; Catlow and Reeve, Conch. Nomenclator, p. 276. Hab, Elizabeth Reef, South Pacific Ocean, in lat. 31° 43' S., long. 159° E. (coll. Brazier). | e gives the Friendly Islands as the locality of this species, but it must be an error. My examples were obtained in deep water by a black, when diving for Holothurie or Béche-de-mer. rare Reef is four hundred and fifty miles east of Port-Jackson s. 3, PARTULA CALEDONICA. Partula caledonica, Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 389; Pfr. Mon. Hel. Viv. vol. vi. p. 157. Hab. Havannah Harbour, Sandwich Island, New Hebrides, pei Lava, or Great Island, in Banks’s Islands (coll. Bra- sier). Dr. Pfeiffer gives the locality of this species as New Caledonia on _ the authority of the late Mr. H. Cuming. Up to the present time, ] 586 MR. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN SHELLS, (June20, 4 r however, there has not been one of the genus Partula found, citer = in New Caledonia or the Loyalty Islands. 4, PUPINA MOULINSIANA. Pupina moulinsiana, Fischer et Bernardi, Journ. de Conch. 1856*, — p- 299, pl. 10. figs. 6&7; Pfr. in Mon. Pneum. Vivent. 1858, tome ii, p- 93, and 1865, tome iii. p. 92; Sowerby, Thes. Conch. en 265, Pupinide, fig. 36. Pupina leucostoma, Montrouzier, MS. Pupina intermedia, Angas, MS. Australian Museum. Li) Hab. Woodlark Island, north of the Louisiades, near the coast of e: Papua or New Guinea (coll. Brazier). This species was described from specimens said to have been re- ceived from New Caledonia. It was taken there by the French Missionaries in their voyages from Woodlark Island. Dr. Pfeiffer, in his last number of ‘ Monographia Pneumonopomorum Viventium,’ gives the correct locality; but Mr. Sowerby, in the ‘Thesaurus Conchyliorum,’ a still later work, goes back to the original New Caledonia. In going through the species in the Australian Museum, Sydney, I find two specimens named by Mr. Angas some time ees 7 when he was in Australia. 5. PupINA MERIDIONALIS. Pupina meridionalis, Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 526; Pfr. Monog. Pneum. Vivent. tome iii. p, 92. Pupinella macgillivrayi, Cox, Catalogue of Australian Land Shells, 1864, p. 32. Pupina meridionalis, Cox, in Monograp h of Australian Land Shells, 1868, p. 100, pl. 16. figs. 7, 7a, 76 (Ze, o operant); Sowerby, Thes. Conch. vol. iii. Pupinida, pl. 265. fig. 33 Hab. Port Denison, Queensland (coll. Brazier). This species is not found in South Australia as quoted by Dr. Pfeiffer and Mr. Sowerby, their valuable concKolbareal works not being always correct as regards the localities of the species. 6. PupINA PLANILABRIS. Pupina planilabris, Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 526; Pfr. Monog. Pneum. Viven. tome iil. p. 93. Pupinella whartoni, Cox, Catalogue of Australian Land Shells, 1864, p. 32. Pupina planilabris, Cox, in Monograph Australian Land Shells, 1868, p. 99, pl. 16. figs. 11, lla, 116; Sowerby, Thes. Conch. vol. iii. Pupinide, pl. 265. fig. 34, Hab. Port Curtis and Port Denison, Queensland, north-east coast of Australia (Coll. Brazier). This is another species erroneously stated by the same authorities as in the case of the preceding one to be from South Australia. * Dr. Pfeiffer makes an error in his ‘Mon. Pneum. Vivent.’ 1858 when he re- fers to the description of this species in the ‘Journal de Conch,’ Jan. 1857. I find the description in that Journal of July 1856. [2] 1871.) MI. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. 587 ~ 7. CyCLOTUS RECLUZIANUS. Cyclostoma recluzianum (Cyclotus), Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853, y Cyclotus recluzianus, Pfr. in Malak. Bl. 1854, p. 80; H. & A. Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll. ii. p. 275; Pfr. in Mon. Pneum. Vivent. Pee tome ii. p. 21, 1865, tome iii. p. 27; Reeve, Conch. Icon. 7 ix. fi . f 3s f Hab. Dillon’s Bay, Erromanga, New Hebrides (coll. Brazier). The original or type specimens were collected at the same place by my late friend Mr. John Macgillivray; and during my visit to manga, six years ago, I found it plentiful under decayed leaves in very damp places near the sea, and never upon any other island in the New Hebrides. The late Mr. Cuming was in error when he sent it to Dr. Pfeiffer with the locality ‘‘Solomon Islands.” I have been through almost every island in the Solomons, and have not met with any of the genus Cyclotus. 8. CycLorus MACGILLIVRAYI. Cyclostoma macgillivrayi (Cyclotus), Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855, p. 103; Pfr. Mon. Pneum. Vivent. 1858, tome ii. p. 21, 1865, tome ili. p. 27; Reeve, Conch. Icon. Cyclotus, pl. 9. i . 57. Hab. Aneiteum Island, New Hebrides: found inland in ravines under wood (coll. Brazier). When Dr. Pfeiffer described this species, he gave the correct locality, and when he brought out his second part of ‘ Monographia Pneumonopomorum’ he also gave it correctly, and at the same time a locality of his own, New Georgia, one of. the Solomon Islands. It is impossible to find this species at any island in the Solomons. In the third part of the ‘ Monographia’ he only gives “‘ Nov. Hebrid. ;” but-it is only found on one island of the group, and not on all, as the term New Hebrides would imply. - [From the ProckEDINGS oF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society oF Lonpon, June 20, 1871.] {3} a 4 ; ‘(From the ProckepINGs or THE ZooLoGicat Society or Lonpon, ; January 2, 1872.) ——————— — Descriptions of seven new Species of Land and Marine Shells from the Solomon Islands, Western Polynesia, and Australia. By Joun Brazier, C.M.Z.S. (Plate IV.) [Specimens of the species marked with an asterisk are deposited in the British useum. | *], Heiix (Georrocuvs) BRopIEI, sp. nov. (Plate LV. fig. 6.) Shell imperforate, flatly conical, thin, shining, obliquely faintly aud irregularly plicately striated, white, with a chalk-white band at the suture and periphery, and with a spiral band of dark brown at the base, sometimes diffused ; with the white band at the periphery ; keeled, rather blunt at the apex ; whorls 5, nearly flat, the last con- vex at the base; aperture oblique, rhomboidally ovate; peristome dark brown, moderately thickened, margins approximating, the right slightly deflexed, the columellar margin reflected and fareished with a straight callus. Diam. maj. 8, min. 63, alt. 7 lin. : Hab. Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands. [1] 21 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND AND MARINE SHELLS. [Jan,2, This fine species I have named after its discoverer Capt. Brodie, _ an enthusiastic collector, who has contributed much to our knoy- ledge of the Solomon Islands. ’ a Varieties of this species occur in which the dark-brown bandis _ occasionally found above the chalk-white one, and a brown band — under the periphery. aa *2. Hexix (GEOTROCHUS) CHOISEULENSIS, sp. noy. (PlateIV, fig. 7.) is Shell perforate, conical, moderately solid, obliquely very bis striated, reddish brown, ornamented with a yellow sutural band, and two others below; spire conical, apex acute ; whorls 6, moderately — convex, the last not descending, slightly angled at the periphery, _ convex at the base; aperture diagonal; peristome rose-coloured, rather widely expanded and reflected; collumellar margin dilated and reflexed, almost covering the perforation. : Diam. maj. 8, min. 6, alt. 8 lin. Hab. Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands (Captain Brodie). This pretty species is intermediate in form between Helix splen- descete, Cox, and Helix mendana, Angas, also from the Solomon slands. ae Heirx (Grorrocuus) MENDOZA, sp. nov. (Plate IV. fig. 8. Shell narrowly perforate, conical, rather thin, very fae obli- quely striated, light straw-colour throughout; spire conoid, apex rather obtuse ; whorls 6 to 63, slightly convex, narrowly channel- led at the suture, sharply carinated and angled at the periphery, base rather flat; aperture oblique, triangularly ovate; peristome thin, white, right margin a little expanded, columellar margin re- flexed, and expanded over the perforation. Diam. maj. 62, min. 53, alt. 8 lin. Hab. Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands (Captain Brodie). This species differs from any of the known Geoérochi from the Solomon Islands in being mharale carinated at the periphery. 4, Herrx (CAM&NA) MULGRAYVENSIS, Sp. Nov. Shell umbilicated, turbinately globose, thin, smooth, very faintl obliquely striated with fine granulations (only seen under the lens), reddish yellow, with numerous spiral chestnut lines and bands; spire conoid, obtuse; whorls 6, convex, last deflected im front, base sculptured the same as the upper surface ; umbilicus deep; aper- ture diagonal, lunate, interior purplish ; peristome reflected, tinged with brown, margins approximating and joined by a thin callus, eulpmaellat margin dilated and reflected, nearly covering the um-— ilicus. Diam. maj. 2 inches 4 lin., min. 1 inch 2 lin., alt. 1 inch 1 lin. Hab. Mulgrave Island, Torres Strait, North Australia (coll. Bra- ztier and Hargraves). air species is distinguished by the numerous fine reddish lines I 872.) MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND AND MARINE SHELLS. 22 - encireling the whole of the shell, more numerous on the base, and by the pink and brown peristome. _ *§, Trrron (Errpromvus) coxt, sp. noy. (Plate IV. fig. 9.) - Shell turrite, thin, with six rather indistinct rounded varices ; spire slightly twisted, apex obtuse; whorls 6, sculptured with irre- gular, very close-set, longitudinal ribs, slightly noduled at the suture, rounded, and articulated with fine impressed strim, very light brown, darker on the varices, the whorls furnished with three transverse lines in the form of dots somewhat like a chain, the last or body- _ whorl with a dark-brown blotch, and finely marked with dots of the same colour; columella arcuate, smooth; lip white, thickened ; canal very short, recurved; outer lip white, finely denticulated Alt. l inch, breadth 23 lines. Hab. Bellengen River, New South Wales (Brazier). This pretty species I have named after Dr. James Cox of Sydney. It is the second species of the subeens Epidromus that has been found on the coast of New South Wales ; it is a very light shell, while the Epi brazieri, Angas, is a thick and heavy shell. [1 obtained a few broken specimens of it also at the Bellengen river. 6. TRrToNIDEA PETTERDI, sp. nov. Shell fusiform, thick, longitudinally flatly ribbed and trans- versely ridged, the interstices filled with rows of muricated scales (ony seen under the lens), whitish, ornamented with a pure white nd in the centre of the whorls, and a faint brown one below; spite moderately elevated, apex blunt; whorls 6, almost flat, suture plate aperture ovate; canal short, slightly recurved; collu- nella arched ; outer lip crenulated, thickened externally, strongly denticulated within. Alt. 54, breadth 2 lines. j Hab. North-east coast of Tasmania (W. F. Petterd). Ihave only seen one specimen of this species, which is in the cabinet of Mr. Petterd. | 7. Humpnreyra coxr. (Plate LV. figs. 10, 10a.) Shell with the valves large, broadly ovately rounded, horny white, irregularly roughly striated; tube straight, smooth, opaque- white, short and round; disk globularly inflated, wrinkled, rather fparingly covered with short, straight, small tubes and a few per- orations, Length of valves 0°46, breadth 0°32; height of inflated disk 1:00, breadth 0:80 ; length of tube from edge of disk 1:05 inch. Hab. Near Port Stephens, east coast of New South Wales. The pave shape of this interesting shell reminds one of a short club. It differs from the only other species of the same genus, Humphreyia strangei, in the very large ovately rounded shell, in the straight tube, and in the inflated disk; the tube partakes of the character of the genus Humphreyia, and the inflated disk of that of [3] 23° MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND AND MARINE SHE 15, [in _ Aspergillum. The type specimen is in the cabinet of Dr James 0. g ) Cox of Sydney. e a DESCRIPTION OF PLATE IV. Fig. Bi Helix (Geotrochus) brodei, p. 20. —— (——-) choiseulensis, p. 21. 8. — (—) mendozd, p. 3}. 9. Triton (Epidromus) coxi, p. 22. 10. Humphreyia coxi, p. 22. In a second communication from Mr. Brazier, the flloning a tional habitats of certain species of Volutide were given:— Scapha mamilla, Gray, hitherto regarded as only from Tasmania, . has been found near Lake Macqaaean New South Wales. si Scaphella marmorata, Swainson, ranges from Outer Mani y Beach, a near the north head of Port Jackson, northwards as far as the | Clarence river. Scapha deshayesit, Reeve, is not from the Solomon Telanaies given by Dr. Gray in his British-Museum Catalogue, but from the east coast of New Caledonia, at Uagap, and north of Balade. — ; Scapha punctata, Swainson, is found at intervals all | g the east coast of New South Wales, from Broken Bay northwa far as the Bellengen and Clarence rivers. gil. Hadix Wrolfon fe — aa » Borsonr, Yoox » caleer Sug cee re Aci —Mneon Bord Howes Valand WPralimusiratt Ger Sodom [4] 1PTAT sy iV¥ SHELLS WESTERN 2s rr L POM PACI AUSTRALIA FIC ISLAND ve oc — MAN. Hanhart 3 vay ser ery ~ Deseriptions of new Land-Shells from Australia and the South-Sea Islands. By James C. Cox, M.D., of Sydney, New South Wales. (Plate IV.) teil Waa (HexicostyLa) crorroni, sp. noy. (Plate IV. Shell imperforate, rather solid, conoid-globose, obliquely trans- versely striated, yellow, ornamented with dark chestnut or blackish zones and lines of various widths, one, in sper coulass always beneath the suture, and another at the base round the umbilical region, the intervening space between these two lines being more or less oc- cupied with narrow lines; spire raised, conoidly rounded, suture impressed, margined with a white thread; whorls 7, convex, last whorl descending in front ; aperture lunar-oyal, pale violet within ; peristome straight, whitish, expanded and moderately reflexed throughout, ins joined by a rather thick glossy callus; colu- mella solid, slightly curved, dilated and impressed, strongly ad- herent to the body-whorl, occluding the umbilicus. Diam., greatest 1°65, least 1°34; height 1°60 inch. Hab. Hydrometer River, west of Port MacKay, Queensland, Aus- tralia; found inside the hollow trunks of quangdong trees. is species appears to be very local in habitat ; its characters participate in those of Helix blomfieldi, Cox, and Helix cozi, 2. Henix (Hapra) PARSONI, sp. noy. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) Shell with a large deep open umbilicus, transversely finely striated, globosely conical, dark purple-black, much lighter towards the apex, Where it is indistinctly ornamented with fine spiral lines; spire raised, obtusely conical, suture distinctly margined with a narrow white line; whorls 74, convex, gradually increasing in size, last produced and deflected in front, base flattened ; aperture diagonal, ovately lunar, livid within; peristome of a purplish white colour, very slightly thickened, expanded and aioe throughout ; margins approximating, joined by a thin glossy callus, columellar margin triangularly dilated, peerieceane the large umbilicus. | - Diam., greatest 1°42, least 1:09 ; height 1°53 inch. Hab. Gayndah, Queensland, Australia. is species, in general aspect, is very like some of the smaller 19 DR. J. C. COX ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. [Jan.2, specimens of H. blomfieldi, Cox, but it may at once be distin. o guished from that species by its flat base and its large open umbi- licus, overhung by the expanded columellar margin. ery 3. Hexix (TRACHIA) DRYANDERENSIS, Sp. Novy. Shell flatly depressed, smooth, thin, with a very large, broad, open, shallow umbilicus, in which the sutures of the spire are distinctly seen, light brown throughout; whorls 43, extremely rounded, gradually increasing in size, the last much deflected in front, base rounded; spire almost flat, suture large and deep; aperture circular, dilated, slightly constricted behind ; margins almost meeting, columellar margin simple, straight. ee Diam., greatest 0°42, least 0°34 ; height 0°15 of an inch. Hab. Mount Dryander, Port Denison, Queensland, Australia. This species is allied to Helix cyclostomata, Le Guillou, but it partakes even more of the form of a Cyclostoma than that species. 4. BuLimus (PLACOSTYLUS) CUNICULINSUL2, sp. noy. (Plate IV. fig. 3.) Shell largely rimate, pyramidally ovate, thin, translucent, covered with a tough chestnut-coloured epidermis, obliquely, roughly, irre- cularly striated longitudinally ; spire conical, lighter at the apex and Heat of epidermis; whorls 6, convex, the last inflated, rounded at the base, equalling three fifths the length of the shell; aperture irregularly ovate; peristome straight, slightly thickened and somewhat everted, tinted with pink internally; columella pyra- midally dilated, of a pink colour, moderately arched; margins of the peristome joined by a thin pink callus. Length 1°65, breadth 0°75 of an inch. Hab. Rabbit Island, near Lord Howe’s Island, Pacific Ocean. This species has recently been found abundantly on Rabbit Island; it is closely allied to its neighbour Bulimus bivaricosus, Gask., of Lord Howe’s Island; it is a smaller and a lighter shell, and is inva- riably decidedly rimate. 5. Buximus (CHaris) KREFTII, sp. noy. (Plate IV. fig. 4.) | Shell scarcely rimate, elongately ovate, not thin, longitudinally finely striated, shining, covered with a light reddish-brown epi- dermis; apex yellow-red, suture deep-margined below with a white line; whorls 6, convex, the last occupying two thirds the length of the shell; aperture large, elongately oval, white within; peristome straight, thickened and eyerted at the edge; columella white, broadly conical, dividing into two pillars, one po on to t body-whorl and blending with the thin callus which joins the margins of the peristome, the second (which is flattened and pro- jecting) running spirally within the body-whorl. : Length 2°10, breadth 0°92 of an inch. Tab. Solomon Islands. I have several specimens of this shell in my collection, which I am ane to refer to any of the previously described species. 2 18734} DR. J. C, COX ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. 20 ‘| Sea (GxorRocuus) LEUCOPHmA, sp. nov. (Plate IV. Shell with a covered umbilicus, turbinately globose, transversel _ Yery finely striated, and, at the base more particularly, finely longi- -tudinally striated; usually very light brown, ornamented with gre zones and bands; whorls 54 to 6, gradually increasing, rounded, ey ante reflected in front, subangled at the periphery, lattened at the base; suture impressed ; aperture lunar-oval; peri- stome white, flatly expanded and reflected; margins approximating, columellar margin dilated and reflexed, concealing the umbilicus. — Diam., greatest 0-80, least 0°62; height 0-80 of an inch. Hab. Gaudaleanar, San Christoyal, and other islands of the So- a Par isscascs specimens of this shell for several years; and it was considered, by good authorities to whom I referred it, to be Helix migratoria ; 1 took for granted that it was such, and have frequently distributed it under that name. Having since looked into the characters of Helix migratoria, as given by Pfeiffer in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855, p. 108, and at the figure of the same se -xxxii. fig. 3), I find that they do not correspond with the t of the shell now described, which I therefore consider to be a new species ; it varies much in its markings, being some- times uniformly of a grey colour without bands, and again uni- formly of a light brown colour, with no grey zones or bands. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE IV. Fig. 1. Helix (Helicostyla) croftoni, p. 18. 2. —— (Hadra) parsoni, p. 18. 3. Bulimus (Placostylus) cuniculinsule, p. 19. 4. —— (Charis) kreftii, p. 19. 5. Helix (Geotrochus) leucophea, p. 20. [From the ProckEDINGS oF THE ZOOLOGICAL SocIETY OF LONDON, January 2, 1872.] oe [3] anes \ is W SHELLS FROM LTT aT WESTE: ROM AUSTRALIA & TH ESTERN PACIFIC Be oie: eae " = i ~ and the Solomon Islands. By James C. Cox, M.D., ~ C.M.ZS. . (Plate XVI.) + aT Heirx rarnsrrpr, Cox. (Plate XVI. fig. 1.) Fx. Shell deeply openly umbilicated, globosely turbinate, rather thin, faintly striated, dark’ chestnut-brown, almost black, ornamented by two broad dark Pillow bands about the centre of the whorls, and one — round the umbilicus, which is much excavated and broadly funnel- ise spire broadly conoid, obtuse ; whorls 63 to 7, convex, last ected in front; aperture oblique roundly lunate ; lip dark and he margin, broadly expanded and somewhat reflected ; roximating, joine by a thin callus; columellar margin Potpinded, overhanging the broad, open, funnel-shaped umbi- “ab eount Dryander, Port Denison, Queensland. test 1°75, least 1°20; height 1°35 inch. This fine species, named after its discoverer. was sent to me as Heliz mitchelle, Cox, which in general appearance it much re- sembles ; it is, however, easily distinguished by its less conical shape, and by its being openly umbilicated, whereas H. mitchelle has a ~ covered umbilicus. 9. Heuix THATCHERI, Cox. (Plate XVI. fig. 2.) ae pen and openly umbilicated, depressedly globose, rather Biimtely striated, dull horny yellow, ornamented with a eee chestnut band below the suture, with five or six fine ‘dark Hines round the centre of the whorls, and also a dark undefined zone round the umbilicus, which is of the same colour; this dark Rae ends across the last whorl in a broad undefined band ae the aperture, and joins the band beneath the ) ly conoid ; whorls 62, flattened, the last becoming ‘td, rapidly enlarged and a little depressed i in front; base flat; aperture vane -oval, large, oblique, livid white within lip dightly thickened and everted, of a lighter colour than the i interior ; ing, joined by a thin dark callus ; columellar margin roachin 2 Bate wait half concealing the umbilicus. Hab. patent Bersaker, ARKHAM Queensland (Raindird). Diameter—greatest 1-60, least 1:20; height 1-15 inch. een ine Bperie s, of an intermediate form between Heliv ap- incet, but easily distinguished from either by the ‘marked eetitn of the last whorl. Henrx NOVE-GEORGIENSIS, Cox. (Plate XVI. fig. 3.) _ imperforate, globosely depressed, surface corrugated and hiny, white, ornamented with 5 or 6 narrow brown bands; apex spire bluntly rounded ; whorls 4, ray * increasing in pi each [l * vide Soy scriptiogs of eight new Species of Shells from ASistea . * * ) | * } : ——- Me wo a) iz 171 DR. J. C. COX ON NEW AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. [Mar.24, - flatly sloping to the centre, causing a subcarinated appearance; last anys piddealy reflected in front, and contracted nite the aperture; - aperture very oblique, ear-shaped, margin ivory-white, flatly ex- panded, the brown bands on the last whorl abruptly terminating at the base of the expanded lip ; margins approaching, joined by a thin callus; columellar margin slightly dilated, and inclining to be tuber- culated within. Hab. New Georgia, Solomon Isles. i Diameter—greatest 0°95, least 0°70; height 0°55 inch. — 2°" 4, Henix macerecort, Cox. (Plate XVI. fig. 4.) Shell very widely umbilicated, flatly discoidal, quite flat on the upper surface, widely excavated below, pale yellow brown ; whorls 10 or 11, very slowly increasing, having a coteta appearance as in H. polygyrata, coarsely striated ; last whorl keeled above, rounded below, slightly dilated and much deflected in front ; suture margined ; aperture very oblique, ovately rounded; lip with an irregular mar- gin, very slightly thickened, not reflected. } Hab. New Ireland (Brodie). Diameter—greatest 0°93, least 0°82; height 0°23 inch. This species so much resembles the smaller varieties of H. poly- gyrata that it need not be mistaken for any other species ; its coiled- up, money-like appearance would at once attract attention. I have named it in honour of my late friend Capt. MacGregor, who for several years was a most enthusiastic collector among the Solomon group of islands. 7 5. Hewrx cHancet, Cox. (Plate XVI. fig. 5.) Shell imperforate, conoid, faintly striated from above downwards with straight strice, and longitudinally striated with more distinct wavy strize, white, ornamented on the centre of the whorls with a broad brown band, and round the base with a broad brown zone; spire pyramidal, black at the apex ; whorls six, the last rapidly increasing in size and inflated, suddenly deflected in front, and contracted be- hind the lip; aperture large, irregularly ovately rounded, margins approaching, lip slightly thickened and reflected ; columellar margi moderately dilated and excavated, and darkened by a black callus. Hab. Ysabel Island, Solomon Islands. ; Diameter—greatest 1°30, least 1-07; height 1°25 inch. This handsome species is an intermediate form between Helix coniformis of Férussac and H. louisiadensis of Forbes, but is of a more decidedly trochiform appearance. ‘ 6. Henix convicra. (Plate XVI. fig. 6.) Shell imperforate, solid, orbicularly conoid, transversely faintly striated, and decussated with fine longitudinal strize, pale * llowish white, ornamented with two narrow brown bands, one near the centre of the whorls, the other immediately below the suture, which is rather impressed ; spire broadly conical, apex obtuse ; whorls 63, 7) . . - te i, oy 1870.) «DR. J. C. COX ON NEW AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. 172 gradually increasing in size, last depressed in front; aperture ro- — ~ tundately lunate; peristome white, expanded, rok slightly ap- proaching; columellar margin ivory-white, triangularly expanded and fused into the body of the es Pic a‘ Diameter—greatest 0°90, least 0°73 ; height 0°74 inch. Hab. Nichol Bay, Western Australia. _ 7. BULIMUS SAN-CHRISTOVALENSIS. (Plate XVI. fig. 7.) ‘Shell rimately perforate, conically ovate, club-shaped; spire elon- gated and proportionally slender, moderately thin, rather finely transversely malleated, pale brown, apex pink, abundantly and irre- gularly ornamented with triangular or irregular longitudinal zigzag markings; whorls 5, the last inflated and forming three-fourths the length of the shell; aperture elliptically oval ; peristome pink, shortl ey and very slightly thickened; columellar margin dilated divided into two pillars—one, the larger and more highly coloured, prominent, and running spirally within the body of the shell, the second running forward toward the insertion of the oppo- site end of the peristome and becoming blended with a callus of union; in some specimens a tooth exists between the spiral internal pillar of the columella and the insertion of the opposite end of the peristome. Diameter 1°20, length 1-60; aperture 1°45 long, 0°60 inch broad. Hab, San Christoval, Solomon Islands. a f 8. Rectuzia HARGRAVESI*. (Plate XVI. fig. 8.) Shell imperforate, pyriform, thin, scalariform, greenish horn- colour, shining, transversely obsoletely striated, and very indistinctly banded; whorls 63-7, markedly rounded, and separated by a deep suture; aperture ovately rounded; peristome thin, simple; colu- mellar margin thickened and expanded. Hab. Miall River, Port Stephens, N.S.W. Diameter—greatest 0:90, least 0°67 ; length 1°53; aperture 0°65 long, 0°50 snes de DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XVI. Fig. 1. Helix rainbirdi, p. 170. 2. Be ea p- 170. 3, 3a. ix nove-georgiensis, p. 170. 4,40. Helix i, p- it 5. Helix chancet, p. {71 6. Helix convicta, p.171. 7. Bulimus san-christovalensis, p. 172. 8. Recluzia hargravesi, p. 172. * [Mr. H. Adams, who has been kind enough to look over this paper for Dr. Cox, remarks that this shell is pelagic, and was probably found at or near the mouth of the river, whither it had been driven by the winds from the sea.—Ep.] [3] t [ From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE P ZS 1870. Pl XVI SB Soweby ih Gag M& N Hanhart imp NEW SHELLS FROM AUSTRALIA & SOLOMON ISLANDS. ea [From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society OF Lonnon, ' January 27, 1870.] — -——— es Descriptions of Seventeen New Species of Tiand Shells from the South-Sea Islands, in the Cabinet of Mr. Joun Brazier of Sydney. By Dr. James C. Cox, C.M.Z.S. 1. Hexrx ALLECTA. Shell with a deep open funnel-shaped umbilicus, depressedly orbi- cular, thin, uniformly closely and strongly striated, the strive of a dull, dark-reddish chestnut-colour; spire flat; whorls 43 to 5, con- vex, the last not descending in front; suture deep and excavated ; aperture rounded ; peristome simple, obtuse, columellar margin di- Diam., isreatest 0:10, least 0°08 ; height 0°04 of an inch. Hab. Upolu, Navigator’s Islands ; found on the mountains, under decayed wood (Brazier). iB 82 DR. J. C. COX ON NEW LAND SHELLS. [Jan. 27, 2. HeLix WANGANENSIS. Shell perforated, depressed, thin, hyaline, smooth, and shining, of an amber-brown colour; spire almost flat; whorls 5, flattened, very slowly increasing ,in size, last not depressed, rounded at the base; suture strongly marked ; aperture lunate; peristome simple, thin; columella dilated, concealing the slight perforation. Diam., greatest 0°31, least 0°21; height 0°22 of an inch. Hab. Wanga, San Christoval, Solomon Islands; on the mountains, under leaves (Brazier). 3. HELIX QUINTALA. Shell imperforate, lenticular, greenish yellow, thin, pal flattened cine whorls 8, slowly aereeene the last sharply keeled, not descending in front, base rounded and excavated in the middle, irregularly rugosely striated above, smooth below the keel; suture shallow, but rather broad; aperture narrowly angularly lunate; peristome simple; columella scarcely dilated. Diam., greatest 0:14, least 0-12; height 0-08 of an inch. Hab. Nortolk Island; found in the pine-forests, under leaves in damp places ( Brazier). This species is closely allied to H. /izardensis, Pfr., and, at Mr. Brazier’s request, is named in honour of Mr. Arthur Quintala, jun., of Norfolk Island. 4. Hewix HELVA. Shell flattened, deeply and widely umbilicated, pale red, uniformly striated with coarse, regular, rather widely separated rib-like strie ; whorls 4} to 5, rounded, the last descending gradually in front; aperture lunately rounded, margins joined by a dark callus; peri- stome obtuse, not reflected. Diam., greatest 0°10, least 0°08; height 0-04 of an inch. Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides; found under a log of wood (Brazier). 5. Heuix arpva. ’ Shell minutely umbilicated, turbinately globose, yellowish brown, thin, smooth, slightly shining; spire obtusely conical; whorls 6, markedly convex, the last not descending in front; base rounded ; suture deep; aperture roundly lunate; peristome simple, somewhat expanded at the columella. reste aad at Ladd Diam., greatest 0-12, least 0-10; height 0-11 of an inch. . Hab. Erumanga, New Hebrides; found under # log of wood near the sea. | ) ity Sore tal we gate 6. HeLrx VANN2-LAVE. Shell imperforate, conoidly depressed, dark yellowish horn-colour, smooth, shining ; spire broadly conoid ; whorls 54, only slightly con- vex, last not descending, base convex; suture shallow; aperture {2} 18704] , DR. J.C. COX ON NEW LAND SHELLS. 83 __lunate; peristome thin, simple, columellar margin a little dilated __Diam., greatest 0°14, least 0°12; height 0°11 of an inch. ____ Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides ; found under decaying leaves near the sea-shore (Brazier). si sh 7. Heiix sororia. Shell imperforate, depressedly globose, thin, smooth, shining, throughout light olive-yellow; spire slightly elevated; whorls 5, noderately convex, slowly increasing in size, last not descending in front, base rounded, narrowly margined at the suture; aperture ull peristome simple, columellar margin only slightly Diam., greatest 0°15, least 0°13; height 0°09 of an inch. Hab. Ovalau, Fiji Islands ; found under leaves on the mountains (Brazier). 8, HeLrx sansirus. | ..¥ Shell conical, narrowly umbilicated, regularly spirally striated, strie slightly raised and granular, thin, light brown; spire raised and pointed; whorls 6, gradually increasing, the last sharply and prominently keeled, flattened at the base, which is also granularly spirally striated ;_peristome simple, thin. Diam., greatest 0°11, least 0°10; height 0°09 of an inch. Hab. Vanna Lava, Banks’s Group; found inland, under decayed leaves in very wet places; also found at Viti Levu, Fiji, inland, in similar localities (Brazier). | : 9. Heix EXAGITANS. Shell’ plano-convex, flat above, convex below, deeply and openly umbilicated, pale brown-yellow, upper surface irregularly finely stri- ated across the whorls; whorls 5, rapidly increasing, last not de- pressed in front, sharply keeled ; peristome simple, thin. Pretraeatest 0-09, least 0°06; height 0-04 of an inch. Hab. Norfolk Island; found in damp places in the pine-forests, under leaves (Brazier). , 10. Heurx TrururLue. Shell depressedly conical, imperforate, of a dull pale brown, above finely granular, smooth and shining below ; spire conical, obtuse ; whorls 5, rounded, slowly increasing in size, last not depressed, not keeled, base rounded ; suture broad and channelled ; peristome thin, roundly lunate. oes Diam., greatest 0°12, least 0°10; height 0-09 of an ineh. Hab. Tutuilla, Navigator’s Islands; found in wet places, under leaves, near the sea (Brazier). : 1. Herix anTELATA. Be a Shell depressedly conical, perforated, dull reddish brown, ee 84 DR. J. C. COX ON NEW LAND SHELLS. (Jan. 27, spire obtuse, suture narrow, not excavated; whorls 5, last whorl inflated at the base, and excavated round the perforation; peri- stome simple, thin, columellar margin dilated at its insertion. Diam., greatest 0:12, least 0°10, height 0°10 of an inch. Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides; found under leaves near the sea (Brazier). 12. HELIX PATESCENS. Shell imperforate, globosely depressed, thin, transparent, pale straw-coloured, shining, finely rugosely striated; spire conically raised; whorls 3} to 4, the last rapidly increasing, much inflated at the base, and banded with a faint broad brown band; aperture oblique ; peristome simple, thin, rounded. ; Diam., greatest 0°16, least 0°12; height 0°12 of an inch. Hab. Norfolk Island, under leaves in damp places (Brazier). 13. Hevix DEPSTA. Deeply, rather widely, and openly umbilicated, discoid, thin, light yellowish brown; spire almost flat, suture well defined; whorls 43, roughly arcuately striated above, much smoother below, slowly in- creasing in size, the last very slightly angled and a little depressed at its termination ; aperture oblique, lunately rounded; peristome simple, not thickened, columellar margin not expanded. Diam., greatest 0°23, least 0°19; height 0°13 of an inch. Hab. Norfolk Island; under leaves in damp places (Brazier). 14. HELIX RETARDATA. Shell deeply, openly, but narrowly umbilicated, thin, transparent, hyaline, aaa hemeenlnare apex of spire raised ; whorls 5, gradually increasing, last not depressed, smooth and unscal peareas istome lunately rounded, columellar margin a little dilated and reflected. Diam., greatest 0°16, least 0°12; height 0-12 of an inch. Hab. Aneiteum, New Hebrides; found under dead leaves near to the sea-shore ( Brazier). 15. DipLOMMATINA WISEMANI. ~ Shell sinistral, callously rimate, elongately oval, pupiform, light yellowish brown ; apex acute ; whorls 5, very finely abliquely closely, and regularly costulate, third and fourth becoming rapidly tumidly enlarged, last contracted and subascendent; aperture subcircular, much expanded, thick, shining, and porcellaneous; margins joined by a thick expanded callus. Breadth 0°05, height 0-11 of an inch. Hab. Wanga, San Christoval, Solomon Isles (Brazier); found on the mountains, in damp places, under leaves. Named, by Mr. Brazier’s request, after Commodore Wiseman, 16. DipLOMMATINA BRAZIERI. all cylindrically acuminate, of a dull white colour; spire 4 1870.) DR. J. C. COX ON NEW LAND SHELLS. 85 q acute; whorls 63, regularly increasin x, crossed by rather prominent, straight, widely separated ribs, the last contracted and ascendent ; aperture ovately circular, thick, callous, and shining ; margins formed by a thick callus continuous with the aperture. Breadth 0°04, height 0°08 of an inch. Hab. Wanga, San Christoval, Solomon Islands; found on the mountains, in damp places (Brazier). 17, CycLosroMA BRAZIERI. Shell pyramidal; spire acute and elevated, apex rose-red ; whorls 5, round, under the lens very faintly spirally striated, dark cinnamon- colour; suture deep ; umbilicus deep and narrow; aperture circular ; peristome plain, scarcely thickened. Operculum solid, very concave outwardly, with prominent circular ridges. Breadth 0°13, height 0°16. Hab. Upolu, Navigator’s Islands ; found on the mountains, under decaying logs (Brazier). y aetradu toe ve dde dic: ——— __ [From the ProcerpinGs or rue Zoonoaicat Soctety or Lonpon, November 7, 1871.] a Description of a new Volute and Twelve new Species of Land-Shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands. By J. Cox, M.D., C.M.Z.S. (Plate LIT.) Votura (Amorta) AUSTRALIA, sp. noy. (Plate LII. figs. 1, 1a.) Shell fusiform, rather thin; spire short, acuminated, apex erect, finely Bays whorls smooth, 53, the last angled round the upper part; columella strongly four-plaited, prominent and thin; sutures Vitrified ; aperture rather long and narrow, lip simple, interior of 4 641 DR. J. COX ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. {Nov. 7, aperture of a deep orange-red, columella light; colour reddish orange, conspicuously ornamented throughout the whole length of the whorls, especially the last, with dark chestnut (almost approach- ing to black) lightning-like markings, two or three of which are broad, bifurcated above, and shaded off at the edges, others are in thin linear zigzag streaks. Length 2°45, breadth 1-05 of an inch. Hab. Bass’s Straits. I have described this fine species, at the request of Mr. Richmond Thatcher, from a fine specimen handed to me by him. This will make the third species of Volate which this gentleman has brought to light. PARTULA PEASEI, sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) Shell deeply and openly umbilicated, ovately conical, very broaily inflated towards the base; spire short, broadly conical; whorls 5, convex, last rapidly increasing in size and inflated; suture im- pressed ; aperture squarely ovate, obliquely produced, lip and colu- mella white, thickened, and broadly reflected, interior of aperture orange-red ; covered with a striated dark chestnut epidermis. Length 0°94, breadth 0°70 of an inch. Tab. Solomon Islands ( Raindird). I have named this in honour of Mr. Harper Pease of Honolulu. BuLiMuS SELLERSI, sp. noy. (Plate LII. fig. 3.) Shell rimately umbilicated, fusiform, thin, smooth, longitudinally finely striated, and transversely very minutely obsoletely striated towards the apex, apex granularly punctate; opaque, diaphanous, shining, an impure white colour; spire acutely turreted, apex obtuse ; whorls 5, the last equalling two-thirds the length of the shell, suture submargined ; aperture oblong, white within; peristome margined with a dense white, opaque, flat, porcellaneous margin very slightly everted; columella dilating into two pillars, one inserted and gra- dually lost on the last whorl, the other spirally entering the aperture as a prominent thin plate. Length 1-90, breadth 0-66 of an inch. HTab. Gaudalcanar Island, Solomon Islands. Evidently belonging to the same group as B. miltocheilus, Reeve. Among the many specimens obtained [ find no important variation. HELIX ANDERSON, sp. nov. (Plate LIU. fig. 4.) _ Shell imperforate, rather thin, depressedly globose, finely striated, yellow-brown, with three or more rather narrow dark chestnut bands round the centre and lower part of the body-whorl, and one beneath the suture; whorls 63, almost flat, gradually increasing in size; aperture diagonal, elongately lunately rounded, lip dark, as is also the covered umbilicus ; margins conyerging, thin, slightly expanded, columellar margin triangularly dilated, adnate, occluding the umbi- licus and sunk fine the marginal line of the aperture, causing the latter to be sharply angled. Pea greatest 1+34, least 1°10; height 0°80 of an inch, ) 1871.] _DR. J. COX ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. 645 Hab. North end of Expedition Range, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Anderson). : _ This species in its general aspect closely resembles Helix yulet, Pfr.; but from many fine specimens collected by Mr. Anderson 1 find it unvarying in its characters, of which the occluded umbilicus is most conspicuous. HELIX SCANDENS, sp. noy. (Plate LII. fig. 5.) Shell narrowly umbilicated, turbinately globose, of a dull reddish- ellow colour, thin, transparent, above finely striated throughout, smoother below and shining; whorls 54, gradually increasing in size, convex, last not keeled ; aperture broadly lunate ; peristome simple, thin, columellar margin white and opaque, triangularly dilated over the umbilicus. Diam., greatest 0°13, least 0°11; height 0°09 of an inch. Hab. Port Macquarie, east coast of Australia, 6 feet from the ground on the trunk of a tree. Hex KEMPSEYENSIS, sp. noy. (Plate LII. fig. 6.) Shell very minute, perforate, globosely conical, thin, pale horny ellow, (microscopically) striated; spire obtuse, conical; whorls 3, slightly convex; aperture lunately oval; persone simple, thin, margins approached, columellar margin slightly dilated and everted over the narrow umbilicus. Diam., greatest 0:04, least 0°03; height 0°03 of an inch. Hab, East Kempsey, MacLeay River, east coast of Australia; found under leaves on wet ground. HELIX MACQUARIENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 7.) Shell broadly, openly, and deeply umbilicated, flatly depressed, thin, transparent, very shining, glossy, yellow, striated above with rather irregular coarse lines of growth, below smoother and finely spirally striated, faintly rayed with broad chestnut-coloured mark- ings; whorls 43, rapidly increasing at the last, rather flat and mar- ined at the suture; apex scarcely raised; aperture almost round, slightly lunate ; peristome blunt and ingen margins closely ap- proached, columellar margin not expanded. Diam., greatest 0-14, least 0°11; height 0°06 of an inch. Hab. Port Macquarie, east coast of Australia; under leaves on damp ground. HELIX GUADALCANARENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 8.) ‘Shell imperforate, trochiform, rather solid, finely obliquely ar- cuately striated, pale yellow-brown, ornamented with broad or narrow dark chestnut lines, sometimes almost absent; spire turbinate; whorls 53, slightly convex, the last rather inflated, not descending in front; aperture large, very oblique, irregularly lunately rounded, inclining to be angled at the periphery of the body-whorl; peristome white, porcellaneous, broadly expanded, margined with black exter- [4] 646 DR. J. COX ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. [Nov. 7; nally at the angle of reflexion; margins approached, columella di- lated, adnate. 7 , Diam., greatest 1:00, least 0°80; height 1-08 of an inch. Hab. Guadalcanar Island, Solomon Islands. The characters of this species correspond very closely with those given by Pfeiffer to Helix flevilabris ; but I consider there are sufti- cient points of distinction to regard it as a new species; it is a less conical shell, and the last whorl is much more inflated. . Hewrx se.uers!, sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 9.) Shell imperforate, trochiform, brownish yellow, rally orna- mented with two very dark chestnut, almost black, bara more or less wide, one above and one below the subcarinated periphery of the last whorl, having sometimes between them an opaque white band; transversely rather regularly striated backwards, decussated from behind forwards by rather irregular, slightly waved, proportionally broadly separated striee, more distinct on the last two whorls than at the apex of the spire: whorls 5, rounded, gradually increasing in size, suture impressed, last whorl sharply depressed at its termination and flattened from the periphery to its insertion; spire obtuse; aperture ovately lunate; peristome white-margined, slightly everted ; columella very slightly dilated and adnate. Diam., greatest 0°78, least 0°56; height 0°60 of an inch. Hab. Guadaleanar Island, Solomon Islands. Hewix compuiuviatus, sp. noy. (Plate LII. fig. 10.) Shell with a very narrow, deep umbilicus, discoid, flat above, rounded below; spire only slightly raised, covered with a glossy corneous epidermis of a dark claret-colour above, pale below; whorls 6, slowly increasing in size, last not depressed in front, suddenly de- scending at the periphery, before descending being grooved with a narrow deep gutter continuous above the margin of the suture almost to the apex; aperture angularly lunate; peristome simple, thin, angled and notched above the middle by the termination of the groove; margins rather distant, columellar margin very slightly dilated and everted. Diam., greatest 1°10, least 0°88; height 0°70 of an inch. Hab. Solomon Islands. HeL1x HUNTER], sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 11.) Shell with a moderately large, deep, open perforation, globosely tur- binate, thin, pale flesh-coloured, obliquely finely striated from above downwards, and longitudinally striated, especially on the second and third whorls, with coarser granose strice ; whorls 44, rounded ; spire depressedly conoid, apex obtuse, last whorl inflated, (partially) cari- nated below the middle, the line of carination being opaque or creta- ceous ; aperture slightly angled and elongately lunate; peristome thin, broadly reflexed, margins slightly approached, columellar mr tri- angularly dilated, overhanging and produced beyond the umbilicus. ane greatest 1°08, least 0°92; height 0°86 of an inch, [4 1871.] DR. J. COX ON NEW LAND-SHELLS. 647 Hab. Guadaleanar Island, Solomon Islands. Closely allied to H. lactiflua and H. isabellensis ; but this species has a large, deep, open, umbilicus. HeELIx BELMOREI, sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 12.) Shell with a large open umbilicus, broadly trochiform, rather solid, opaque, obliquely finely irregularly striated, dark chestnut; whorls 64, flat; suture very indistinct ; spire bluntly conoid ; the last whorl very sharply keeled, not depressed in front; base flat, more coarsely striated than above with a few irregular longitudinal strize ; excavated round the umbilicus ; aperture trapezoid; peristome sharply angled and pointed at the keel, white and thickened towards the columellar margin, which is scarcely expanded. Diam., greatest 1°00, least 0°90; height 0°50 of an inch. Hab. Solomon Islands, Heic1Na JANA, sp. nov. (Plate LII. fig. 13.) Shell conoid, rather solid, of a dull orange-brown colour, very finely irregularly transversely striated; apex pointed and finely spi- rally striated ; whorls’ 43 to 5, flat, last bluntly keeled; aperture triangular, rounded at the angles; base rounded, half covered with athin, expanded, white callus; peristome thickened, white, conti- nuous with the columella, which gradually expands out into the callus, partially covering the base. Diam., greatest 0°17, least 0-14; height 0-16 of an inch. Hab. Port Macquarie, east coast of Australia ; found under leaves on the ground. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LILI. Figs. 1,1a. Voluta (Amoria) austra- | Fig. 7. Helix macquariensis, p. 645. lie, p. 648. 8. —— guadaleanarensis, p. 645. 2. Partula peasei, p. 644. 9. —— sellersi, p. 646. 3. Bulimus sellersi, p. 644. 10. —— compluviatus, p. 646. 4. Helix andersoni, p. 644. 11. —— hunteri, p. 646. 5. —— scandens, p. 645. 12. belmorei, p. 647. 6. —— kempseyensis, p. 645. 13. Helicina jana, p. GAT. P.Z.S.4871,PL. LI. GBSowerby del & ith M&N Hanhart imp NEW AUSTRALIAN & SOLOMON. ISLANDS SHELLS * Descriptions of new Species of Land and Marine Shells from Australia and the South-Western Pacific. By James C. Cox, M.D., C.M.Z.S. (Plate XXXIV.) HeLix ALFREDI, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIV. figs. 1, 1a.) H. testa imperforata, depresso-globosa, glabra, nitida, polita, nigro- brunnea, duabus fasciis opaco-albis ornata, una ad peripheriam, altera infra suturam ; spira late conica; anfractibus quinque, lente accrescentibus, planiusculis, ultimo antice deflexo; apertura semiovali; peristomate albo, simplici, breviter reflexo ; columella dilatata, appressa. Diam. maj. 0°93, min. 0°82, alt. 0°85 unc. Hab. Solomon Islands (Coll. Hargraves). This will add another to the large number of beautiful species which have recently been obtained from this group of Islands. It is unlike any other species which I have seen; easily recognized by its black-brown polished appearance, banded by two strongly con- trasting broad white opaque bands Ihave named this species in honour of Capt. H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, from whom I received during his late visit to this colony some valuable species of shells from his private collection. HELIX MILLICENT, sp. noy. (Plate XXXIV. figs. 2, 2a.) H. testa imperforata, depresso-globosa, tenui, nitida, obsolete cari- nata, undique rugoso-granulata; spira elevata, pallide castanea, fascia alba ad peripheriam et flammulis opaco-albis undique ornata; anfractibus quinque, parum convexis, ultimo antice deflexo ; aper- tura subangulata, lunato-circulari; peristomate expanso, albo, breviter reflexo, marginibus conniventibus ; columella dilatata. Diam. maj. 0°98, min. 0°80, alt. 0°75 unc. Hab. Louisiade Islands (Coll. Coz). Arather thin, delicate, handsome species, having the general form of H. fringilla, but being at once distinguished from it by its coarse wrinkled granular surface and by the absence of the tooth-like pro- jection of the peristome near the columella. * BuLIMUS HARGRAVESI, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 3.) B. testa perforata, fusiformi-oblonga, tenuicula, levi, longitudina- liter subtiliter striata, transversim striis rugato-crassis, obtectis, sub epidermide lutescente alba, maculis triangularibus olivaceo- fuscis generaliter picta; spira oblongato-conica, nuda, apice acutiuscula, rosea, granulata ; anfractibus 6, convexis, ultimo = longitudinis equante ; apertura verticali, elongato-auriformi, intus albida, nitida, marginibus crassatis, reflexis, albidis, callo non junctis; margine collumellari dilatato, superne callo adpresso, (1] 324 DR. J. C. COX ON AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. _ [Apr. 18, perforationem obtegente, intus basi usque ad apicem lira albida spiraliter ductante. ; Diam. 1°05, long. 2°60 une. Hab. Treasury Island, Solomon Islands (Coll. Cow). As a rule this species varies very little; of the several examples which I possess, however, some are shorter or wider than the typi- cal epecunene, while others are much lighter in colour and not so decidedly rosy at the apex. 3 VoLura KINGI, sp. nov. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 4.) V. testa oblongo-ovata, crassa, ponderosa ; spira brevi, acuminata, apice vix papillari ; anfractibus levibus, superne declivibus, deinde tumido-angulatis; columella quadriplicata; apertura longiuscula; labro simplici, fusco-flavida aut fulvo, polito; columella et aper- ture fauce intense aurantio tincta. Diam. 1°40, long. 3 unc. Hab. King’s Island, Bass’s Straits. Several fine specimens of this new species have lately been ob- tained; it has ie form of the shorter specimens of Voluta angasi, but it is a more ponderous shell, and at once distinguished by its polished exterior and dark orange-coloured interior. VoLvurTa CONIFORMIS, sp. nov. (Plate XXX1V. fig. 5.) V. testa oblongo-pyriformi vel coniformi, solida ; spira brevissima, obtusa; anfractibus longitudinaliter regulariter fortiter striatis, et transverse striatis cum lineis fortiter undulatis ; columella quadri- plicata, plicis transversis et parvis ; apertura subangustata, prope spiram longiuscula, ascendente ; intus violaceo-brunnea ; simplici ; fulvescenti-brunnea, obscure trifasciata, fasciis valde trigono-reticulatis, et maculis irregulariter ornata. Diam. 1°40, long. 280 unc. Hab. Nichol Bay, N.W. Australia. So far only a single specimen of this fine species has been obtained. Its solid cone-like form, obtuse and rounded spire, and in particular its peculiar sculpturing by regular pea pa strice, decussated at right angles by coarser waved striz, will at once distinguish it from any other described species. In my opinion this species will create a well-marked subgenus of Voluta. Vorura puncraTa, Reeve. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 6.) Hitherto this rare shell has been very indifferently represented in the various works illustrating conchology. As I have lately added to my collection many fine specimens of this species, I send you one to figure. The regular rows of square dark Grange spots with which this species is represented in Reeve’s ‘Conc. Icon.’ (Dec. 1849) from a broken and worn specimen in the British Museum are not to be depended upon, being more frequently absent than otherwise; they are, as a rule, scattered irregularly over the surface of the shell. This species has rather a wide range on the east coast of Australia, my ‘Se having been collected from various localities between 2] ~ ‘1871.] ~—s DR. J. ©. COX ON AUSTRALIAN SHELLS, 325 Port-Jackson Heads and the mouth of the Clarence River; and it probably ranges further north. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXIV. Figs. 1, la. Helix alfredi, p. 323. Fig. 4. Voluta kingi, p. 324. 2, 2a. —— millicente, p. 323. . 5. — Conifer p- 324. 3. Bulimus hargravesi, p. 323. | 6. —— punctata, p. 324. [From the Prockeptnes or THE ZooLoaicaL Soctery oF Lonpon, April 18, 1871.] [3] 3 VVVTV me AAALY 7 / tye Z.8.18 a S 7 & Mz N Hanhartime al € y o — = NEW AUSTRALIAN & S.W. PACIFIC SHELLS. [From the PRocEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society oF LonpDon, January 17, 1871.] Descriptions of seven new Species of Australian Land Shells. By Jamzs C. Cox, M.D., C.M.Z.S. (Plate III.) 1, Henrx GRaTIosA, sp. noy. (Plate III. figs. 1, 1 a.) Shell imperforate, rather thin, globosely turbinated, finely striated with lines of growth, and, under the lens, irregularly transversely striated ; yellow-brown, ornamented with two rather broad dark. chestnut ean one beneath the suture, the other above the centre of the body-whorl, and a third round the umbilical region; spire conoid, apex smooth; whorls 7, rather convex, the last somewhat inflated, rounded at the base; suture distinctly margined below with arather broad white line; aperture ovately lunate, diagonal, purplish within; peristome expanded and reflexed, slightly thickened and dark ; margins jomed by a thin dark callus; columella broadly ex- panded and completely occluding the umbilicus. Diameter, greatest 1°28, least 1:12; height 1°30 of an inch. Hab. Whitsunday Island, off Port Denison, Queensland. [1] 54 DR. J.C, COX ON NEW AUSTRALIAN LAND SHELLS. [Jan. 17, A fine showy species combining the characters of Helix macleayi and Helix blomfieldi, and found, in company with the former, rather abundantly. urdin 2. Hrtix coxent, sp. nov. (Plate III. figs. 2, 2a.) Shell deeply, rather largely, and openly umbilicated, depressedly globose, very thin, translucent, light yellow-brown, irregularly striated with slightly raised waved strive, irregularly studded with numerous sharp, rather long, fine recurved bristles; whorls 53, last rapidly increasing in size, a little descending in front, and considerably in- flated; aperture broadly oval, anterior margin scarcely everted, © * posterior broadly everted ; columella much dilated, slightly covering ame umbilicus, and produced beyond it; margins joined by a thin callus. Diameter, greatest 0°97, least 0°70; height 0°63 of an inch. Hab. Whitsunday Island, off Port Denison, Queensland. I have named this species after Mr. Coxen of Brisbane, an ardent and enthusiastic collector of our Australian shells. 3. VITRINA SUPERBA, Sp. NOV. ‘ Shell depressed, orbicularly auriform, light olive-green, rather opaque, shining; whorls 3, convex, rapidly increasing, last much expanded ; spire scarcely raised, rounded, striated with lines of growth ; aperture oblique, Junar-ovate, largely open; peristome simple, thin; columella sharply arched; margins widely ted. Diameter, greatest 1°20, least 0°74; height 0°59 of an inch. Hab. Mount Dryander, Port Denison, ueensland. This fine species is, so far, the largest known. According to Reeve’s figure it must closely resemble Vitrina magnifica, but is larger and more depressed. 4, Helix BELLENGERENSIS, Sp. nov. Shell deeply, rather narrowly umbilicated, turbinately depressed, lenticular, thin, dark claret-brown, not shining; whorls 53, coarsely obliquely striated, very gradually increasing in size, last whorl rather sharply keeled at the periphery and depressed in front; base convex ; aperture rotundately lunar; last whorl suddenly contracted behind an everted peristome, which is white and slightly thickened; mar- gins approaching ; anterior margin inserted below the carina; colu- mellar are only slightly dilated. Hab. Bellenger River, east coast of New South Wales. Diameter, greatest 0°55, least 0°48 ; height 0°35 of an inch. A simply leuticular species allied to H. leucocheilus, Cox, from which it differs in being more conical and more sharply keeled. 5. HeLtx SARDA-LABIATA, Sp. Noy. (Plate III. figs. 3, 3 a.) Shell deeply, openly, rather largely umbilicated, orbicularly conoid, thin, smooth, very finely striated throughout, pale fawn-grey ; whorls 6, gradually increasing in size, the last sharply deflected in front; aperture oval, margins closely approximating, slightly thick- 2 1871.] DR. J. ©. COX ON NEW AUSTRALIAN LAND SHELLS, 99 ened and reflexed, and of a polished pink carnelian appearance within ; columellar margin triangularly dilated, overhanging the umbilicus. Diameter, greatest 1-10, least 0°83; height 0°80 of an inch. Hab. Mount Dryander, Port Denison, Giseneland’ 6. Hetrx o’CONNELLENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate III. figs. 4, 4 a.) Shell with a wide, open, funnel-shaped umbilicus, semiglobose, smooth, base flat and much excavated round the umbilicus, blackish chestnut, rather solid; spire obtuse; whorls 6; suture margined with a rather broad white line; aperture oval, lilac within, darker at the lip, which is expanded throughout; margins approaching, columellar margin broadly expanded and overhanging the funnel- shaped umbilicus. Hab. The O’Connell River, Port Denison, Queensland. Diameter, greatest 1-15, least 0°87; height 0°85 of an inch. Closely allied to and resembling H. rainbirdi, Cox, in the exca- vated base around the umbilicus; but it is a smaller species, and easily distinguished from HZ. rainbirdi by its white-margined suture. 7. Hetix WHARTON], sp. nov. (Plate III. figs. 5, 5 a.) Shell deeply, openly umbilicated, depressedly globose, thin, finely striated, profusely banded with yellow and light-chestnut bands vary- ing in width and slightly undulating; spire slightly raised ; whorls 63, rather flat, last whorl descending in front; aperture lunar-oval, margins approaching, joined by a thin callus; lip slightly thickened and everted ; columellar margin triangularly dilated, half concealing the umbilicus; aperture pearly within. Diameter, greatest 1°53, least 1:15; height 1°10 of an inch. Hab. Port Denison, Queensland. This is a very constant species, and in great abundance, showing but little variation. It is allied to H. appendiculata, Reeve, but is a thinner and lighter shell and more depressed. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE III. Figs. 1, la. Helix gratiosa, Dy, 53. 2, 2a, —— coxeni, p. d4. 3, 3a. sarda-labiata, p. 54. 4, 4a. —— o’connellensis, p. 55: 5, 5a, —— whartoni, p. (3] a Keual ee destin por ety €.n ww Santee heatytic-atidw ee i. ‘ . a i i : AN i 1 NEW AUSTRAL On three new Species of Australian Marine Shells. By James C. Cox, M.D., Sydney, New South Wales. (Plate XXVI.) CypR#A THATCHERI, n. sp. (Plate XXVI. figs. 1, la.) Shell pyriformly ovate, rather thin, markedly ventricose, base almost flat; sides steep, deeply notched; anterior end contracted and prominent ; posterior end produced, narrow; aperture almost straight, except in front, rather open; teeth thick, obtuse, faint pee white, about twenty-four on the outer edge, and confined to the margin of the aperture; on the columellar side the teeth are short, oval, blunt, and larger, becoming almost obsolete in front; cream-coloured with a cinnamon tinge, smooth and polished, varie- gated with rather large orange-brown spots of irregular size and irre- gularly distributed; the cinnamon tinge is slightly deeper at the ends; base white and perfectly smooth, sides light; extremities rather recurved ; interior pinkish white. Length 3 inches, breadth 142, height 143. Hab. Dampier’s Archipelago, West coast of Australia. The two specimens of this beautiful species now before me, one of which I send to be figured, were obtained by Mr. C. R. Thatcher, from a fisherman who took them at the locality above recorded, about ten years ago; and, so far as I know, no other specimens have yet been found. The two specimens are exactly alike in every way, and in a fine state of preservation. The surface of the shell is uniformly covered with a smooth shining enamel, showing no trace of a dorsal opening. VoLura HARFORDI. (Plate XXVI. figs. 2a, 23.) Shell elongated, ovate, thick ; spire acuminate, short, apex papil- lary; whorls smooth, slanting, strongly excavated or channelled at the suture; columella four-plaited, pinkish white; aperture elon- gated, lip simple; pinkish white, anne longitudinally striated by fine waved brown lines, ornamented by four bands of squarely elon- gated orange-brown spots on the body-whorl, and by a band of round spots of the same colour about the centre of the shell, between the upper and lower rows of squarely elongated markings. ength 1,8, inch, breadth 44, height 15 Hab. Wreck Reef, near Lady Elliott’s Island. This species in general aspect much resembles Voluta maculata of Swainson, but is at once distinguished from that or any other species by its channelled or excavated suture, elongated striation, and regular squarely elongated orange-brown markings. VouuTa scuaTerI. (Plate XXVI. fig. 3.) Shell pyriformly oblong, ponderous; spire rather short, obtuse, papillary ; whorls smooth, porcellanous, the last tending to be angled or protuberant round the upper part; columella strongly five- [lt] - 359 DR. J. C. COX ON NEW AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. [May 13. plaited, the top and second plait semibifurcated, pure white, shining and porcellanous, as is also the interior of the mouth and the under part of the shell; aperture elongated, lip simple, not thickened; of a dull whitish-brown colour above. Length 3 inches, breadth 13, height 154. Hab. Banks’s Straits. This beautiful species, of which I have two specimens in my cabinet, is at once distinguished from any other species by its dense, white, shining, porcellanous interior and under surface. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXVI. . 1, la. ynes thatcheri, p. 358. Fig. 3. Voluta sclateri, p. 358. ies 2a, 2b. Voluta harfordi, p. 358. 4. Haliotis hargravesi*, p. 49, — * For the description of this shell see Dr. Cox’s previous paper, antea page 49, [ From the ProceEDINGs oF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society oF Lonpon, May 13, 1869.) [2] — GB.s owenby Tith. P.Z.S.1869.XXV1. M&NHanhart ump NEW AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. (From the ProckEevinGs oF THE ZooLoGrcar Socrety oF Lonpon, November 19, 1872.] A List of the Species of Cassidide found on the Coast of New South Wales, together with Remarks on their Habitats and Distribution. By J. Brazier, C.M.Z5., M.R.S.N.S.W. 1. SEMICASSIS SABURON. Cassis saburon, Adanson, Voy. en Sénégal, pl. vii. fig. 8; Lam. anim sans Vert. tome vii. p. 227; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. v. fig. la, 8. : Cassis pila, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. ix. fig. 21. Cassidea saburon, Bruguitre. Buccinum saburon, Dillwyn. . Hab. Near the mouths of the Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellengen and Redbank rivers, north of Port Jackson. Found also at New Caledonia by Monsieur Perroquin ; on the coast of Spain, at Gijon, by Mr. McAndrew; Cadiz, by Monsieur Paz; and at Minorca by Monsieur Cardona. The shell described by Reeve under the name of C. pila appears to me to be only a variety of C. saburon. 2. Semicassis (PHALIUM) AREOLA. Buccinum areola, Linnzeus. Cassis areola, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. tome vil. p. 222. Cassidea areola, Bruguitre. Cassis areola, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. ix. fig. 24. Hab. Broken Bay, Port Stephens, Port Macquarie; and near the [1] 838 MR. J, BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN CAssIpDIDz. _[Noy. 19, mouths of the Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellengen, Redbank, and Cla- rence rivers. This species is also found at New Caledonia and the Philippine Islands. 3. Semicassis (PHALIUM) CORONULATA. Cassis coronulata, Sowerby, Tankerville Catalogue, App. p. 20; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. xii. fig. 31. : Had. Broken Bay; and near the mouths of the Macleay, Bellen- gen, and Redbank rivers. This species is very often mistaken for C. glauca, Linn., which is a very common shell, but not found on the Australian coast. 4. Semicassis (CASMARIA) PAUCIRUGIS. Cassis paucirugis, Menke, Moll. Novz Hollandiz, p. 23, sp. 107; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. viii. fig. 19 a, 6. Hab. Merimbula, south of Port Jackson; Encounter and Guichen Bays, South Australia; Swan River, Western Australia; it also ranges to Tasmania. 5. Semrcassis (CASMARIA) ACHATINA. Cassis achatina, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. tome vii. p. 226; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. x. fig. 28 a, 6. Hab. Merimbula, Wollongong, and Botany Bay, south of Port Jackson ; thrown on shore after gales. ‘ Bottle and Glass” rocks, Port Jackson ; found under stones. Also north of Port Jackson at Broken Bay ; Port Stephens; Port uarie ; near the mouths of the Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellengen, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. 6. Semicassis (CASMARIA) PYRUM. Cassis pyrum, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. tome vii. p. 226; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. xi. fig. 29 a, 4, ¢. Cassis zeylanica, Lam. Hab. Botany Bay, Merimbula, Hunter’s Bay and Middle Harbour, Port Jackson; Broken Bay, Port Stephens, Port Macquarie; near the mouths of the Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellengen, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. It is also found in Tasmania, and on the west coast of New Zealand. 7. Semicassts (CASMARIA) TORQUATA. Cassis torquata, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. i. fig. 1 a, 6. Hab. Near the mouth of the Macleay river, New South Wales, I obtained one fine example of this species when investigating that part of the coast two years ago. 8. Semicassis (CASMARIA) SOPHIZ. Cassis sophie, Brazier, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 617. Hab. Near Grassy Head (coll. Brazier). This beautiful shell is, so far as I know, unique in my cacinet. [2] er anley 1$¢73 ¥VZS IS7T2R* FOS SOB Synonymy of and Remarks upon Australian and Western Polynesian Land-Shells. By J. Brazrer, C.M.Z.S.. M.R.S.N.S.W- 1. Herix (Grorrocnus) HERMIONE. 1869. Helix (Geotrochus) hermione, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. p- 625, pl. 48. fig. 5. 1870. Helix biocheana, Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl. p. 249. Hab. Bougainville Island, Solomon group. A very pretty species, distinguishable from the black variety of H. meta, Pfr., by its invariably smaller size, by the presence of the straw-coloured hand below the keel instead of next the suture, and by the last whorl being more distinctly keeled and less convex. 2. Herrx (Georrocuvs) ADONIS, Wie (Geotrochus) adonis, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 624, | *ipl. 48. fig. 4. 1370. Helix metula, Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl. p. 248. Hab. Bougainville Island, Solomon group. ~ A delicately orange-coloured species, intermediate in form between H. meta, Ptr., and H. gaertneriana, Pfr. 3. Hetrx (Ruyrma) vitLAnpReEt. 1865. Helix villandrei, Gassies, Journ. de Conchyl. p. 210. eee (Rhytida) boydi, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 626, pl. 48. fig. 8. Hab. Recherche Bay, San Christoval, Solomon Group (colé, Brazier); Of this species I obtained two inferior specimens at the above locality when at the Solomons in 1865; since then they have been brought to Sydney by the island traders in countless numbers. When first described by Gassies this species was put down as being _ from New Caledonia; it was, however, carried there by the French missionaries, and thence taken to France. 4. Hevix (VipENA) BELLENGENENSIS. 1871. Helix bellengerensis, Cox, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 54. 1871. Helix bellengenensis, Brazier, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 321. Hab. Manarm Creek, Bellengen River, New South Wales (coll. Brazier). : This is a simple lenticular species, allied to H. leucocheilus, Cox, from which it differs in being more conical and more sharply keeled. It belongs to the subgenus Videna of H. and A. Adams. 5. Hexrx (Mrrope) Noy2 HOLLANDIZ. 1834. Carocolla nove hollandie, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 67, 1852. Helix dupuyana, Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 159. ny 1 306 MR. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN LAND-SHELLS. [Nov. 5, 1868. Helix (Geolrochus) dupuyana, Cox in Monograph of Australian Land-Shells, p. 66, pl. 2. fig. 5. 1852. Helix dupuyana, Reeve in Conch. Icon. sp. 354. Hab. Ash Island, Hunter River, Wingham, Manning River, Scone, New England, Port Macquarie, Macleay, Nambuccra, and Bellengen rivers, New South Wales (coll. Brazier). Specimens from the Bellengen are very large, a few that I col- lected measuring 17 lines in the greater diameter, and 13 lines in the lesser. A variety is also met with of a dark dirty yellow colour, with a dark chestnut band on the periphery. The specimens from the other localities are of smaller size and of a dark chestnut colour. At Port Macquarie it is found on high hills near the sea, under logs. ; * 6. Herix (CaLiicocuuias) Coxt. 1864. Helix forbesii, Cox, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 40 (non Pfr.). 1864. H. cerea, Cox, Cat. Austr. Land-sh. p. 36 (non Gould). 1866. ZZ. covi, Crosse, Journ. de Conch. p. 195. 1868. H. cerata, Cox, Monograph of Australian Land-Shells, p- 58, pl. 8. fig. 4. Hab. Port Molle and Port Denison, Queensland (coll. Brazier). The ground-colour of this species is white; the epidermis is fear habit thin; and the shell has a waxy and rather glossy Ae pearance, especially underneath. Found in great numbers on the trunks of the native fig-trees. 7. Wexirx (ConuLus) UMBRACULORUM. 1864. Helix umbraculorum, Cox, Cat. Austr. Land-sh. species 136. 1864. Helix wilcori, Cox, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 594. 1868. H. wileowi, Cox, Monograph of Australian Land-Shells, . 9, pl. 4. fig. 12. 7 Hab. Clartace and Richmond rivers (Maegillivray); Macleay River, also Lassey’s Island, Bellengen River, New South Wales ( Brazier). The first name given to this species Dr. Cox singularly ; and in his Illustrated Monograph there is no mention of its being a synonym. In the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 723, we have the H. umbraculorum mentioned by him as being allied to H. ¢urricu-— lata, Cox. 8. Heiix (CHAROPA) MIDSONI. . 1871. Helix (Discus) atkinsoni, Cox in Legrand’s Collections for Monograph of Tasmanian Land-Shells, species 62, pl. 2. fig. 12. Hab. Brown’s River, Tasmania (coll. Coz). The change in the specific name is necessary, as Theobald de- scribed an East-Indian species in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, 1859, under the name of H. atkinsoni. I have named it after Mr. Midson, an enthusiastic collector in Tasmania. (2| - 1872.) MR. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN LAND-SHELLS. $07 9. Henrx (CHAROPA) MILLIGANI. 1871. Helix (Videna) milligani, Brazier, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 698. ‘1871. H. (V.) milligani, Brazier, in Legrand’s Collections for Monograph of ‘Tasmanian Land-Shells, species 69, published in August, edition 2. 1871. Helix (Charopa) scrupulus, Cox in Legrand’s Collections for M h of Tasmanian Land-Shells, species 76, published in September, edition 2. Hab. Foot of Mount Wellington, Tasmania (coll. Brazier). 10. Herix (Ruyssora) SUBRUGATA. 1851. Helix subrugata, Pfr. Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 259. 1852. H. subrugata, Reeve, Conch. Icon. sp. 773. 1860. Nanina subrugata (Thalassia), Albers, Heliceen, ii. p. 59. 1864. Helix graftonensis, Cox, Cat. Austr. Land-sh. sp. 137. 1864. H. clarencensis, Cox, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 594. Hab. South Grafton, Clarence River, New South Wales (Brazier). This species was never found in New Zealand, as has been stated by Mr. Reeve in his ‘Conch. Icon.,’ upon the authority of the Cu- mingian collection. I obtained some hundreds of it in a few minutes, AOS ia the ground and on small bushes after heavy rains, when at Grafton. It was also obtained by Mr. J. Macgillivray at the same place. }1, ToRNATELLINA JACKSONENSIS. 1864. Bulimus jacksonensis, Cox, Cat. Austr. Land-sh. p. 25. 1868. Achatinella (Frickella) jacksonensis, Cox, Monograph of Australian Land-Shells, p. 77, pl. 12. fig. 15. __ Hab. Darling Point, Shark’s Bay ; Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales (Brazier). The other species described by Cox as Achatinella wakefieldia, from the Clarence and Richmond rivers, is also a Tornatellina. 12. Burtmus (CHONDRULA) ADELAID#. we Bulimus (Chondrula) adelaide, A. Adams and Angas, Proc. c. p. 522. 1864, nee ramsayi, Cox, Cat. Austr. Land-sh. p. 28. 1868. Bulimus (Napeus) adelaide, Cox in Monograph of Aus- tralian Land-Shells, p. 69, pl. 13. fig. 5. Hab. Flinders range, Rapid Bay, and Wallaroo, South Australia (Masters); Wombo, near Singleton, New South Wales (Brazier). This species is very rare in New South Wales. I have one fine specimen, found at Wombo; but it is rather more elongated than the type from South Australia. 13, Bunimus (Liparus) BRAZIERI. 1871. Bulimus (Liparus) brazieri, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 19, pl. 1. fig. 28. } Hab, Stirling range, King George’s Sound, under dead “ grass- tree” (Xanthorrhea). . [3] 808 MR.J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN LAND-SHELLS. [Nov. 5. This pretty longitudinally rugosely plicately ribbed species be- longs to the same group as B. angasiana, Pfr., B. baconi, Benson, and B. mastersi, Cox, all from the S.W. region of the Australian continent. When I sent Mr. Angas the first specimens, I marked them Sinclair’s range, in error, instead of Stirling range. [From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZooLoGicaL Society or Lonpon, Noy. 5, 1871.] [4] (From the ProceepinGs or THE ZooLoaicaL Society or Lonpon, May 7, 1872. Descriptions of six new Species of Land-Shells from Australia and Lord Howe’s Island. By J. Brazmr, C.M.Z.8., M.R.S.N.S.W. 1, Hetrx (Microcystis) CATLETTI. Shell imperforate, depressedly turbinate, rather thin, wrinkled on the upper part, rather shining, horny-green, with a pale yellow 618 MR, J. BRAZIER ON NEWLAND SHELLS. _—_—([May 7, band on the periphery and a dark brown narrow band above and below it; spire depressedly conical; whorls 54, rather flat, the last rather large and convex, slightly angled in the middle, base moder- ately convex ; covered with a horny-green epidermis; aperture an- gularly lunar; lip simple, acute, columellar margin shortly reflected. Diam. maj. 4, min. 34, alt. 2} lines. Hab. Lord Howe’s Island, off the coast of New South Wales (coll. Australian Museum). This species I have named after Mr. W. H. Catlett, Secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 2. Hexix (ConvuLvs) LIARDETI. Shell perforated, depressedly globose, very thin, pellucid, shining, faintly and irregularly, closely, obliquely striated, horny-green ; spire obtusely convex, suture moderately impressed ; whorls 34, roundly convex, slowly increasing, the last large, convexly rounded, base con- vex and striated in the same manner as the upper surface ; umbilicus minute; aperture oblique, roundly lunate; peristome simple, mar- gins distant, columellar margin recurved and partly concealing the minute umbilicus. Diam. maj. ?, min. 3, alt. elite! Hab. Picton, New South Wales; under wood in company with HH. morti, Cox (coll. Lieutenant Liardet, R.N.). This minute species was collected by my friend Lieutenant Liardet, who only found one example during his stay of a month at the locality given above, 3. Hexrx (GALAXIAS) LIVERPOOLENSIS. Shell perforate, globularly conical, thin, rather strongly ranged and plicately striated, (under the lens) finely granulated, cove with a horny-yellow epidermis, with a small narrow chestnut spiral band below the suture; spire conoid, obtuse; whorls 43, convex, the last large and inflated, descending in front, base convex, smoother than the upper surface; perforation small, more than half covered, en- circled with a faint broad chestnut band; aperture oblique, roundly lunate; peristome moderately straight, thin on the upper part, thickened and reflected at the columellar margin, which is white. Diam. maj. 8, min. 6, alt. 64 lines. Hab. Liverpool range, interior of New South Wales (coll. Austra- lian Museum). This shell was obtained by Mr. George Masters during his visit to the above locality. It approaches nearly to Helix leptogramma, Pfr., but differs in having a narrow chestnut band just under the suture, with a faint one of the same colour round the perforation. 4. Hevrx (ZonirEes) GAWLERI. Shell umbilicated, convexly depressed, thin, very closely rugosely wrinkled with oblique strize to the periphery, interstices smooth ; shining, horny-brown, with dark reddish oblique streaks here and there; spire small, suture impressed ; whorls 43, moderately convex, [2] 1872) MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW LAND SHELLS. 619 the last large, inflated in front, depressed above, base convex, yel- ___lowish, glossy, sculptured with strice giving it a wrinkled appearance ; _ umbilicus large sh deep, rounded at the edge, with the strize more inct and running into the interior; aperture oblique, ovately -lunate, interior pinkish ; peristome simple, thin, margins nearly ap- proximating, the outer arched, columellar thin and reflexed. lam. maj. 8, min. 6, alt. 4 lines. Hab. Mount-Lofty ranges, near Adelaide, South Australia (coll. Bikster), This species appears to be quite common in a subfossil state in and around Adelaide. 5. TORNATELLINA INCONSPICUA. Shell somewhat perforate, rather turreted, very thin, transparent, ining, moderately smooth, with very faint oblique striz (as seen under the lens), bright yellowish horn-colour ; spire very little elon- Rb obtuse at the apex; whorls 5, convex, impressed at the suture, @ last equalling about half of the length; aperture ovate, with a thin central vertical tooth ; columella twisted and entering spirally ; peristome simple, acute. Length 1 line, diam. 3; length of aperture } line. Hab. Lord Howe’s Island (coll. Australian Museum). 6. ?SimpuLopsis MASTERSI. Shell somewhat globose, thin, very faintly and irregularly trans- versely striated, marked with irregular reddish- and yellowish-brown _ flames running rather obliquely ; spire very small, conical; suture impressed ; whorls 34, convex, the last very largely and openly dilated; aperture rather large, wide, ovately lunate; columella arched, and not thickened ; peristome simple, acute. Length 3}, breadth 23; length of aperture 2} lines, breadth 1? line. Hab. Lord Howe’s Island (coll. Australian Museum). Only one example of this species was found, in company with Tornatellina inconspicua, by Mr. Masters when collecting at the above island. [3] _ [From the PRocEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society or Lonpon, May 7, 1872.] ——— Descriptions of three new Species of Marine Shells from Australia. By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., M.R.S.N.S.W. (Plate XLIV.) 1. Cassis Nivea. (Plate XLIV. fig. 1.) Shell thin, inflated, obliquely striated, chalky white; spire rather elevated, apex acute, suture impressed ; whorls 6, moderately con- yex, eparelly ridged next the suture, the last whorl angled above and furnished with a row of 13 pointed nodules or tubercles, then excayated, and immediately below the excavation ornamented with eleven rather elongated rib-like nodules ; columella straight, arched and expanded over the perforation ; lip thin, not toothed, reflexed, the outer edge as well as the columella tinged with orange; aper- ture ovately Junate, chalky white within. Length 1 inch 9 lines, breadth 1 inch 5 lines, height 1 inch 2 lines; length of aperture 1 inch 6 lines, breadth 83 lines. Hab. Macquarie Harbour, west coast of Tasmania (coll. Brazier). This species was collected by my friend Mr. W. F. Petterd, jun., of Hobart Town, who obtained it some few years ago at a oo l 617 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW MARINE SHELLS. _— [May 7. locality ; and, so far as I am aware, no other specimens have yet been found. It differs from any of the Cassidide that I have met with in its thin texture and its pure white colour; the deep rounded furrow or excavation at the angle makes it at once a most conspicuous species. 2. Cassis sopHiA. (Plate XLIV. fig. 2.) Shell globosely inflated, rather solid; spire moderately raised, apex rather obtuse; whorls 53, tabulated above, spirally grooved next the suture, the last whorl obliquely striated and transversely distantly finely ridged, more than four fifths the length of the shell, deeply grooved at the base; columella arched, concave, faintly wrinkled, expanded and covering the perforation; whitish, the last two whorls ornamented with rows of large fulvous-red square blotches; lip reflexed and toothed, the teeth on the basal portion nearly ex- tending across the lip, obsolete at the upper part. Length 2 inches 9 lines, breadth 2 inches 4 lines, height 2 inches. Hab. Under Grassy Head, mouth of the Macleay River, north of Port Jackson, New South Wales (coll. Brazier). I obtained this example during a stay of one week at the mouth of the Macleay River. I also obtained broken and beach-worn ex- amples at the mouth of the Nambuccra River, twelve miles further north; but from that to the Clarence River, some hundred and fifty miles, I found no more traces of the species. 3. Cyprma coxt. (Plate XLIV. figs. 3, 3a.) Shell oblong-oval, rather thin, base almost flat; sides rounded, anterior end contracted and moderately prominent, posterior end produced ; aperture narrow, nearly straight; teeth thick, obtuse, yellowish white, on the outer edge 13 in number and confined to the margin of the aperture, on the columellar side from 15 to 16, the four lower ones rather prominent, the others almost obsolete; light orange-yellow or cream-colour, smooth and polished, ornamented with two faint yellowish-white bands, with a faint indication of lon- gitudinal hair-like lines; interior cream-colour. Length 10, breadth 53, height 5} lines. Hab. Dupuch’s Island, north-west coast of Australia (coll. J. C. Cox). This species was collected by Mr. Thatcher, about four years ago, at the above locality. [2] P.Z.S.1872. PL.XLIV. G.Sowerby lith. M.&NHanhart imp NEW SPECIES OF CASSIS & CYPRA. | From the ProcEEDINGS oF THE ZOOLOGICAL Society or LoNpDoN, January 16, 1872.] A List of the Cypreide found on the Coast* of New South Wales. By Joun Brazizr, C.M.Z.S., M.R.S.N.S.W. During a tour of five months through the northern parts of New South Wales in 1870, I travelled over 300 miles of coast-line, and * The extent of coast-line of New South Wales commences at Point Danger, in latitude 28° 8’ S., and terminates at Cape Howe, in latitude 37° 30’ S. [1] 82 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW-SOUTH-WALES CYPREID. [Jan. 16, found species that have never been recorded from this part of the world. It is of importance that those who from personal obserya- tion are in a position to do so should give to the scientific world the benefit of their researches, especially when they are able to correct errors, or to increase our knowledge of the geographical distribution of species. Genus Cypra, Linneeus. 1. Cyprma CARNEOLA, Linn. Hab. Bottle-and-Glass rocks, Port Jackson; Cape Banks, Botany Bay. This may be considered its furthest southern limit. It is yen common to the north, at the mouth of the Macleay, Nam- buccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. 2. CYPRZA ISABELLA, Linn. Cyprea controversa, Gray. Hab. Headland three miles north of the Nambuccra River, also Bellinger-River bar. This is not the true C. isabella, Linn., but the variety named con roversa by Gray. Rare here, but common in the Central Pacific Islands. 3. Cypr2a FrImBRIATA, Gmel. Hab. Cape Solander, Botany Bay, Lake-Macquarie beach, and the mouth of the Clarence River. 4. Cyprza macuta, A. Adams. Hab. Botany Bay; Bottle-and-Glass rocks, Port Jackson ; Broken Bay ; Neweastle ; Port Stephens ; Port Macquarie; Macleay, Nambucecra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers; also Moreton Island in Moreton Bay. 5. Cyprma FELINA, Gray. Hab. Twofold Bay, Botany Bay, Port Stephens, Port Macquarie, and at the mouths of all the rivers north of Port Macquarie. 6. CyprmA URSELLUS, Gmel. Hab. Cape Banks, north head of Botany Bay. 7. Cypr#a HIRUNDO, Linn. Hab. Redbank and Bellinger rivers. 8. Cypra ASELLUS, Linn. Hab. Cape Banks, Botany Bay; Port Jackson; Port Reefer Port Macquarie ; Nambuccra, Macleay, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. Our specimens are larger and more deeply coloured than those from New Caledonia and Ceylon. I have not seen the species south of Botany Bay. 9 1872.] MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW-SOUTH-WALES CYPREZID&. 83 9. CyprmaA TABESCENS, Soland. Hab. Broken Bay, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens, and Port Macquarie ; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. 10. Cypraa scurra, Chem. Cyprea indica, Gmelin. Hab. Broken Bay, north of Port Jackson. Subgenus Aricra, Gray. 11. Cypraa arasica, Linn. Hab. Cape Banks, north head of Botany Bay; Macleay, Nam- buecra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. : The specimens found at Botany were all young shells, and ob- tained, during a very low tide, under large stones. 12. Cypraza MoNETA, Linn. Hab. Redbank River, twenty miles south of the Clarence River. This species, so common in the tropics, is also common at the above locality ; it is thrown on shore after gales, with the animal dead in the shells. 13. Cypr#A ANNULUS, Linn. Hab. Cape Banks, Botany Bay; Bottle-and-Glass rocks, Port Jackson; Redbank River. This species, in common with C. moneta, is found thrown up on the beach after gales, near the Clarence River. 14. Cypr&A CAPUT-SERPENTIS, Linn. Hab. Cape Banks, Botany Bay; Shark Island, Port Jackson ; Lake Macquarie; Broken Bay; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. A specimen that I obtained at Botany Bay was jet-black. It is not found south of that place. Subgenus Luponra, Gray. 15. Cypraa viTeLuvs, Linn. Hab. Cape Banks, Botany Bay; Schnapper Rock, Coogee Bay ; Point Piper; Port Jackson; Broken Bay; Port Stephens and Port Macquarie; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. I have not found this species south of Botany Bay. 16. Cyprma tynx, Linn. Cyprea vanelli, Linneeus. Cyprea squalina, Gmelin. Hab. Bellinger-River bar. [3] 84 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW-SOUTH-WALES CYPR&ID&. [Jan. 16, 17. Cypr#A HELVOLA, Linn. Hab. Bellinger-River beaches. 18. Cyprwa porarts, Linn. Hab. Bellinger and Redbank rivers. 19. Cyprma CLANDESTINA, Linn. Cyprea moniliaris, Lamarck. . Hab. Cape Banks, Botany Bay; Watson’s Bay, Port Jackson; Port Macquarie; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. ; I obtained living examples of this species at Botany during a very low spring tide under stones, but have not seen it any further south. 20. Cypr&A xANTHODON, Gray. Hab. Watson’s Bay, Port Jackson (Mr. G. F. Angas) ; Broken Bay; Port Stephens; Port Macquarie; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bel- linger, nen Clarence, Richmond, and Tweed rivers. . This species I have very rarely found in good condition. 21. Cypr#a susviripis, Reeve. Hab. Port Stephens, Port Macquarie; Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. | Mr. Sowerby, in his ‘ Thesaurus Conchyliorum,’ erroneously states that this species inhabits the Cape-Verd Islands. New-Caledonian specimens are more pyriform at lighter in colour than those fonnd on the Australian coast. 22. Cypr#A FLAVEOLA, Linn. Hab. Botany-Bay Heads; Broken Bay; Lake Macquarie; Port Stephens; Port Macquarie; also Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. This species is not yery common at any of the above localities. 23. Cyprza spurcA, Linn. Hab. Cape Solander, south head of Botany Bay (Mr. Hargraves) ; Newcastle beach, near Redhead, north of Port Jackson. This species may be distinguished from C. flaveola and C. gan- grenosa by the back being always clouded and ocellated with yellow. 24. Cyprea LuTEA, Gronov. Cyprea humphreysit, Gray. Cyprea commixta, Wood. Hab. Lake Macquarie ; Newcastle beach; Redbank and Clarence rivers. The variety humphreysti has the back of the shell olive-brown, with two narrow milky-blue zones, and comes from Nichol Bay, North-west Australia. [4] 1872.] MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW-SOUTH-WALES CYPREIDZ. 89 25. CyprA PIPERATA, Soland. Hab. Twofold Bay and Shoalhaven. This species is also found at Port Lincoln, St. Vincent’s Gulf, Port-Adelaide Creek, South Australia, and at Cape Riche, King George’s Sound. 26. Cypr2A BICOLOR, Gask. Hab. Lake Macquarie and Bellinger River. This species may be recognized by its pyriform shape and by the teeth being much finer than in C. piperata or C. comptoni. Some four years since some hundreds of C. bicolor were washed on shore upon the outer beaches of Lake Macquarie, after an easterly gale of wind. 27. Cyprma compront, Gray. Hab. Twofold Bay. It is also found at Port Lincoln, South Australia; Cape Riche, King George’s Sound, and on the north coast of Tasmania. 28. Cyprza EROSA, Linn. Hab. Bottle-and-Glass rocks, Port Jackson; Broken Bay; Port Stephens; Port Macquarie; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Red- bank, and Clarence rivers. This species is found thrown up on all the outer beaches after the winter gales, and obtained alive under stones in the harbours. 29. Cyprma caurica, Linn. Hab. Cape Banks, Botany Bay; Broken Bay. This species, like the preceding, extends from Broken Bay north- wards along New South Wales to Queensland. 30. CypraA CRUENTA, Gmel. Cyprea variolaria, Lamarck. | Hab. Bellinger and Redbank rivers; also a few dead specimens haye been found at Lake Macquarie. 31. Cypr#A MILIARIS, Gmel. Hab. Macleay River, under Grassy Head. 32. CyprA ERRONES, Linn. Cyprea olivacea, Lamarck. Hab. Cape Banks; Botany Bay; Middle Harbour, Port Jack- son; Broken Bay; Port Stephens; Port Macquarie, and all the other northern beaches of New South Wales. Subgenus CyprmovuLa, Gray. 33. CypREXOVULA UMBILICATA, Sow. Hab. Off Wollongong (?), deep water. a 5 86 MR. J. BRAZIER ON NEW-SOUTH-WALES CyPREID. [Jan. 16, “Several living specimens of this rare shell were dredged in deep water, at a distance of two miles off the coast, a little to the south- wards of Wollongong, by Commodore Loring, C.B., when com- manding H.M.S. ‘Iris.’ They are somewhat smaller and paler in colour than the ordinary Tasmanian examples.’—Mr. G. F. Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867. Genus Triv1a, Gray. 34. TRIVIA AUSTRALIS, Lam. Hab. Shark and Clark Islands, Watson’s Bay; Bottle-and-Glass rocks, Port Jackson; Lake Macquarie; Port Stephens; Port Mac- quarie; Macleay, Nambuccra, Bellinger, Redbank, and Clarence rivers. ‘Tasmanian specimens are very large. - About four years ago there were some thousands of this species — washed on shore at the outer beaches, Lake Macquarie, after an easterly gale. 35. TRIVIA CANDIDULA, Gask. Hab. Bottle-and-Glass rocks, Port Jackson. I obtained two living examples of this rare Trivia under a large stone during an unusually low spring tide. 36. Trivia GLoposa, Gray. Hab. Cook’s Landing Place, Botany Bay; and Little Bay, be tween Port-Jackson Heads and Botany. 37. Trivia 1nsecTA, Mighels. rea hordacea, Kien. Hab. Little Bay, also Cabbage-Tree Bay, outside the north head .of Port Jackson. Subgenus Pusrunaria, Swainson. 38. Trivia trmacrna, Lam. Oyprea interstincta, Wood. Hab. Nambuccra and Bellinger rivers. This species appears to be confused by some authors with the C. staphylea of Linneus ; but they are undoubtedly two distinct species, the teeth on the base of C. limacina being always large, and not extending across the base as in C. staphylea. 39. Triv1A stapHyL&a, Linn. Hab. Broken Bay and Newcastle. This species is common on the New-South-Wales coast. [6] * " . DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEVEN NEW SPECIES OF TERRESTRIAL ? AND MARINE SHELLS FROM NORTH-EAST AUSTRALIA. At By Jony Brazier, C.M.Z.S., &e., &. , ‘Seg - _ ~- [Read before the Royal Society, 23 September, 1874.) or, THESE new species were collected by me when I went with the. _ Australian Eclipse Expedition of December, 1871 ; and my con- tinued absence from Sydney, in exotic Countries, collecting, has prevented me from describing them any sooner. The specific names attached are those of the leading Astronomers to the 5. a *1. Herrx (Conutus) ELieryt. _ Shell minutely umbilicated, conical, very thin, pale brown, finely regularly and spirally striated ; spire conical, acute, suture impressed with a fine groove, whorls 53, slightly convex, the last __ whorl sharply keeled at the periphery; base convex, glossy round the umbilicus, about one half marked with spiral lines, peristome simple, slightly angular, aperture oblique, margins distant, columellar margin curved slightly over the umbilicus. Diam. maj. 13, min. 1, alt. 1} lin. . i Hab. Fitzroy Island, north-east coast of Australia; found under leaves in damp ground. (Coll. Brazier,) I have named this species after Mr. Ellery, Government Astronomer of Melbourne, Victoria. . * en. . *2. Herix (Conunus) Russen1. | _ Shell minutely umbilicated, turbinately globose, thin, shining, faintly and obliquely closely striated ; horny brown, spire elevated, — apex obtuse, suture channelled, whorls 5, roundly convex, last’ descending in front, base convex, transyersely striated, peristome _ ‘simple, thin, roundly lunate, aperture oblique, columellar margin dilated partly over the umbilicus with white callus. — - Diam. maj. 1}., min. 14, alt. 14 lin. ef Hab. Fitzroy Island, north-east coast of, Australia, under -_ Jeayes on damp ground; found also at No. 8 Island, Claremont Group, off Cape Sidmouth, amongst the drift coral above high- water mark. (Coll. Brazier.) | I have named this species after Mr. Russell, the Government _ Astronomer of Sydney, New South Wales, . + : *%e * a ‘ 3 and extending over the body whorl. ee a x ee Be _ DESCHTPTIONS: OF “ELEVEN ‘NEW SPECIES OF TERRESTRIAL - , me yr #3. Popa W eRr140) Macpowwenna. Shell small, dextral. umnbilicately fissured, oblong, thin, aunties = ise - Smgeeh, white, hyaline, whorls 5, rounded, the last small, ‘ re impressed, narrow, apex obtuse, aperture BUCGLTY Seapine ovate, longer than broad, ‘denticulated with 5 teeth, _ 4 prominent, the upper one large, placed on the centre of the uperture on the ba whorl and extending upwards into the thick — unded callus on the face of the body whorl; a second placed to the ‘right, minute and rounded; a third on the colume , thick and pointed ; a fourth facing th e up ae , moderately pointed ; the _ fifth, about equal size to the fourth; the aperture divided into | four parts, peristome thickened and expanded, smooth and white, 18 joined by a thick callus continuous with the feast. “Length 1, breadth }lin, es - Hab. Fitzroy Island, north-east Ramealin also, NG 8 sand, 7 = “Claremont Group. (Coll. Brazier.) I haye named this ues Mr. W. J. Maedonnell, Astronomer, of a : | ; ae eS 4, itese Gane Scorn, o- ie ae ‘Shell dextral, erewnred; c lindrical, thin, rranspa pale | | i ee whorls 53, roundly inven last small, — and» : < Sah truely faintly striated ; spire roundly obtuse, aperture small, , denticulated, within with 4 prominent white teeth; one J wee long and acute, two laced inside the outer lip, pe ~ lower one long and prominent, the fourth moderate oly OE and — rounded, peristome whitish, thickened and expand continuous, with a thin coating of callus over the perforebens suture formed at the upper part of the lip.” Length x, breadth } lin. | _ ‘Hab. Fitzroy Island, north-east coast of Australia; only one specimen obtained at the wat ae under a ‘bit as wood. | _ (Coll. Brazier.) | ” : I have semi this: ‘after the Rex, W. Scott, Astronomes, Sy dney. a F at #5 Geeecesaneh (alee sor) Wurst. sp : _ buat suborbicular, somewhat de pressed, rather thin, jake . ly ‘striated, spine scarcely senile apex ohana smooth, ona 44, increasing rapidly, last large, ‘keeled | with one evabort and below the periphery, having FY hollow poe ‘on the body whorl, elongated and rounded, second on the = . margins 2. “= P . j . * _- ance, suture distinctly keeled, umbilicus large, one prominent _____ keel round it, aperture oblique, circular, peristome simple, thin, acute, operculum horny yellow, thin, concave, multispiral. — ) ee) Dian, maj. 1, min. ¥ altp lin. ~ ~~) 4S yee, | __ under wood near a fresh-water stream. (Coll. Brazier.) _ This interesting species belongs to the new sub-genus Ditropis of Blanford’s ; it reminds one of a miniature Tropidophora cuvi- _eriana and tricarinatus, with their large keels. I have named it after Mr. White, F.R.A.S., Astronomer of Melbourne, Victoria, he haying accompanied me across the Fitzroy Island. - *6. Drptommatrya GOWLLANDI. Shell dextral, rimate, acuminately oblong, finely and obliquely ribbed, interstices smooth, white, hyaline, spire conical, apex acute, sometimes decollated, whorls from 6 to 7, sometimes 9; the first three forming the apex are regular and tapering, the fourth broad, the fifth longer and broader, sixth yery small, — haying a pinched or distorted appearance in front; seventh or last extends nearly up to the suture of the sixth; convex, aperture vertical, sub-circular, peristome thin and broad, margins shining, joined by a thin callus, upper broadly.expanded, colu- mellar margin thick, straight, with a small canal, minute tooth eS), ee within. | Length 14, breadth 3, min. } lin. a heavy rain. (Coll. Brazier.) ik 5 I haye met with; the first three whorls forming the apex are regular and tapering, the fourth is a little broader, the fifth still longer and broader, the sixth haying a pinched-in appearance ; the last is large, giving the shell a most distorted appearance. . The greatest breadth is at the fifth*whorl, the least at the sixth. “The few hundred that I collected are all of the same description, very few with nine whorls, = _. Ihave named it after my late lamented friend John Thomas Ewing Gowlland, Staff Commander, R.N., who was unfortunately drowned while employed surveying Port Jackson, August, 1874, * and the gentleman who took charge of the steamer of the Eclipse Expedition to Cape Sidmouth. Whe many pleasant hours spent with him will always be remembered by the members of the Aus- tralian Eclipse Expedition. ogee ye aa AND MARINE SHELLS FROM NORTH-EAST AUSTRALIA. 3 ae Hab. Fitzroy Island, north-east coast of Australia ; found - » * _ Hab. Fitzroy Island, north-east coast of Australia ; found at the root of a large tree, crawling upon the grass and roots during | __ This curious species differs from any of the Diplommatina that — ee 44 = 3 } € aa, 3 3 , Jor iy = ak ms, Sr. 4 “DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEVEN ——. . et interstices rather roug attachment to the animal. ~ gowllandi. (Coll. Brazier.) be 8. CoruwBELLA Shell cylindrically oblong, Te ae Ae #7, Cuonprenta MULTIEIRATA, | ___ Shell imperforate, Bonpeely conical, strongly spi oa 4 | shining, reddish-brown, whorls 4,roundly ae convex, suture eaneeted, s ire conical, apex papillose, base con- NEW SPECIES OF TERRESTRIAL es rally lined, yex, very finely marked with spiral lines, aperture vertical, lunate, _ peristome thickened, margins distant, columella margin straight, thickened with a white callus round ‘the imperforation which is hollowed out, operculum shelly, ovate, smooth, brownish, with a long pointed shelly protuberance on the under side or place of — Diam. maj. 3, min. 3, alt. lin. Hab. Fitzro Tsland, north-east “coast of, Australia ; found | crawling on the roots of grass, in company with Diplommatina ‘This interesting microscopic species I place it in the Genus Chondrella of Pease. Not haying seen the description of that Genus, only having specimens of Prasr’s parva from Rorotonga, one of the central Pacific Islands, which tf both in the shell and operculum, to my Australian species, of which I collected some hundreds, I am of opinion that Chor is only a synonyme of the Genus Garrettia, O. Semper. A ee >. , ‘ < H%. * ie ‘ . find comes very close, ondrella (Murrnezts) “Rossecxi. somewhat fusiform, smooth, white, _--—s whorls 6, moderately convex, encircled with oblique dark orange Ss spots on the last whorl, first row large, below long and reticulated, ‘ . abo thinnish, irregularly curve i> -— . * . Length 23, breadth 14 lin. Hiab, No, 6 or Ealipeo Ts coast. of Australia. I only during our 9. ConuMBELLA ~ Shell ob! ___ Brazier.) ye the suture ig ie aperture oblong, ovate, peristome d, thickened at the upper part with - callus, columellar marked with fine grooves, canal short, straight. land, Claremont Group, north-east found one specimen under a stone ir stay of nine days. (Coll. Brazier.) _(Anacuts) Draeuest.