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Show 586 MR. J. BRAZIER ON AUSTRALIAN SHELLS. [Julie 20, however, there has not been one of the genus Partula found, either 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, vol. iii. pl. 265, Pupinidee, fig. 36. Pupina leucostoma, Montrouzier, M S . Pupina intermedia, Angas, MS. Australian Museum. Hab. Woodlark Island, north of the Louisiades, near the coast of Papua or New Guinea (coll. Brazier). This species was described from specimens said to have been received 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 Viveutium,' 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 back 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 Laud Shells, 1864, p. 32. Pupina meridionalis, Cox, in Monograph of Australian Land Shells, 1868, p. 100, pl. 16. figs. 7, 7a, 7b (7c, operculum); Sowerby, Thes. Conch, vol. iii. Pupinidee, 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 conchological 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 iii. 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, 11a, lib; Sowerby, Thes. Conch. vol. iii. Pupinidee, 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 refers to the description of this species in the 'Journal de Conch.' Jan. 1857. I find the description in that Journal of July 1856. |
