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This species, which far exceeds B. Kingi in diversity of markings, con- 

 spicuously differs from it in the first instance by its greater solidity 

 and less lengthened form. Meuke, Moll. Nov. Moll. Spec, p. 7, 1843, 

 specifies four varieties. Pfeiffer gives descriptions of six, Mon. Hel. 

 Vtv., Vol. IV., p. 477 ; and my own collection could furnish others. 

 Yet a few are pretty constant in their characters. The description 

 given above applies to what is perhaps the most usual, the pale 

 cokmred type. These pale shells have almost a porcellaneous ap- 

 pearance ; they may be entirely unmarked, have a sutural band of 

 reddish-chestnut, with or without longitudinal streaks of the same, 

 pale and indistinct, or numerous and deeply coloured, &c. ; the 

 mouth within is white, or shewing a pinkish hue, and there is very 

 frequently a fleshy tint on the columella and about the umbilicus. 



Of the dark series, the most remarkable, which includes my largest 

 specimens, are very closely and narrowly longitudinally streaked, 

 with white, chestnut, or reddish-brown, &c. The interior of the mouth 

 is purplish, darker in proportion to the colour of the shell. In old 

 specimens the columella is very much thickened and callous above, 

 but the umbilicus is never completely closed. This last is Pfeiffer's 

 var. S., and is represented by Peeve, sp. 243. A much smaller dark 

 variety, nearly black, with a reddish apex, and very finely longitu- 

 dinally streaked with white threads, has a single reddish spiral 

 band, and the mouth is black within. 



A variety found along with the preceding by Mr. Masters, on an island 

 in King George's Sound, has a very pale chestnut ground, a reddish 

 apex, a dark spiral band under the suture, and is handsomely 

 streaked with dark chestnut and threads of white. Lastly, there is 

 one prominently streaked blackish and reddish, which has three 

 markings, interrupted by light spiral bands. 



185. Bulimus Kingi. Gray. Plate XIII. Fig. 7. M.O. 



Gray, Ann of Phil, New Ser., Vol. IX., p. 414, 1825. 

 Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 336. 

 Helix trilineata. Quoy et Gaimard, Yoy. d , Astr. y Zool., Vol. II., p. 



107. PI. IX. Pig. 13. 

 Ferussac et Deshaye's Hist. Moll. Atlas, Vol. II., 1832. PI. CL. 



Fig. 1112. 

 Bulimus trilineatus. Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 310, and sp. 397. 

 Bulimus Sayi. Pfr., Pro Zool. Soc, 1846, p. 114. 

 Reeve, Cone. Icon. sp. 458. 

 Bulimus melo. Var. /3., Menlce, Moll. Nov. Roll. Spec., p. 7, 1843. 



Shell nearly imperforate, of a lengthened oval, rather solid, translucent, 

 rather shining, closely, irregularly, and rather strongly striated, 

 especially at the sutures, whitish, streaked longitudinally with very 

 numerous, flarae-like, interrupted or continuous dark chestnut mark- 

 ings ; spire conical, rather acute ; whorls 6, very slightly convex, 

 last not ventricose, usually rather shorter than the spire, frequently 

 equalling and rarely slightly exceeding it ; aperture oval to oblong- 

 oval, shining within, purplish-chestnut ; peristome simple, acute ; 

 columella callously white, with a dark patch outside, slightly dilated 



