72 AUSTRALIAX LAND SHELLS. 



177. Bulimus inflatus. Lam. Plate XII. Fig. 14, copied 

 from Reeve. 



Lamarck, Anim. satis Vertebr., Edt. Beshayes., Vol. VIII., p. 230. 

 Reeve, Cone. Leon. sp. 512. 



Shell perforate, ovate, ventricose, longitudinally roughly striated, 

 solid, dead white ; spire conical, blunt ; whorls 5 to b\, rather eon- 

 vex, last scarcely exceeding the spire ; aperture oval ; peristome 

 simple, acute, columellar margin rather broadly dilated and re- 

 flected, not concealing the umbilicus. 



Length - 75 ; breadth 0-43 ; aperture - 41 long; 0-21 broad, of an inch. 



Habitat. New Holland. Deshayes. 



Never having seen this shell, which may be looked upon as doubtfully 

 Australian, I have compiled the above from Pfeiffer's JLon. Hel. Viv., 

 Vol. II., p. 189, having also Beeve's description and plate before 

 me. A very large specimen is stated to measure 1-06 by - 55 of an 

 inch. 



178. Bulimus Tasmanicus. Pfr. Plate XIII. Pig. 1. 

 Pfr., Pro. Zool. Soc, p. 260, 1851. 



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 frequently 

 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 ; aper- 

 ture very slightly oblique, of a rather lengthened oval, pale yellow 

 within; peristome simple, straight, thin, columellar margin very 

 slightly rolled back. 



Length 1*10 ; breadth 0*60 ; aperture 0*65 long ; 0*40 broad, of an inch. 



Habitat. Tasmania, climbing on trees. Gunn. 



A shell varying in relative length and breadth, but more so in mark- 

 ings, from the absence or presence of the coloured epidermis. 



XXXV. SECTION KHABDOTUS. Pfr. Vers. p. 158. 



* B. Bidwilli * B. Baconi. * B. indutus. 



* B. bulla. * B. Onslowi. * B. melo. 



* B. Kingi. * B. rhodostoma. * B. Mastersi. 



179. Bulimus Bidwilli. Cox. Plate XIII. Fig. 11. Museum, 

 Eev. E. L. King. 



Shell nearly imperforate, of a lengthened oval form, rather thin, smooth, 

 very indistinctly striated, not shining, white, with numerous black and 

 reddish spiral bands, and, on each whorl, more or less distinctly, a 

 band of elongated black or reddish markings ; spire acutely conical, 

 bluish at the tip ; whorls 6, very slightly convex, last not ventricose, 

 deeply and irregularly stained with black and red; aperture up- 

 rightly oval ; peristome simple, regular, thin, columellar margin 



