BREVIORA Museniim of Coimparative Zoology Cambridge, Mass. June IS. U).")? Number 76 TWO NEW LAXI) AXl) FKESllWATEK MOLLl'SKy FROM NEW GUINEA By AViLLiA.M -I. Clench The tirst species was received from Mr. James Poling of New York City, the second from ]Mrs. Marjorie Kleckham of Darn, l'ai)na. New Gninea. ]\Ir. Poling pnrchased all of the remaining stock of the land and marine mollusks from Ward's Natural Science Establish-ment in Rochester, New York, after the death of Mr. F. H. Ward. Contained in this miscellaneous material were a few lots of land shells, originally obtained from some collector in New Guinea. Subsequent correspondence by ^Ir. Poling with Ward's has failed to add to the meager data accompanying the specimens. Just wlio the collector was or the exact locality in New Guinea still remains unknown. The locality is somewhere in western New Guinea, to judgi^ by th(» associated specimens from the same ('()ll(H'tor. VeR1)ICHL01[1T1S new subgenus Tliis subgenus differs from all other species in the subfamily Chloritinae by being a dull jade green. All other species, now inunbering over 200, are uniforml}' brown, red-brown, or banded with some shade of broAvn or red-brown. The usual arrangement of the periostracal "hairs" is in staggered or offset rows; in this subgenus the rows are regular. T]ipr aperies. Eusfrnxopsis (VerclicJdo)-)fis) polijufi Clench. EUf^TOMOPSIS ( \'e1;I)U IILOKITISJ POLINGI. uew S])ecies Figure 1 1)( scnptioii. Shell small. i-cMching 1") mm. in gi-eatest diameter,
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