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Colombia, Mr. H. H. Smith collected numerous .specimens of this 

 species and its color-variety imitator. The specimens of maracai- 

 bensis are boldly marked with black-brown or bluish thrice-waved 

 stripes, usually branching above, often with three reddish-brown 

 bands more or less interrupted. The largest measure, length 55, 

 diam. 32 mill. One of these is figured. The var. imitator with them 

 vary from pale brown to fleshy, and are mostly three-banded, some 

 of the half-grown specimens having a fourth band at the base. Some 

 show traces of flames. 



OXYSTYLA PHLOGERA (Orb.). PI. 26, figs. 48, 49. 



Vol. xii, p. 145. The specimen here illustrated was received 

 from Dr. von Ihering, labeled Araguary, Minas (no. 1123). It 

 has many brown stripes on a creamy ground, the stripes distinct on 

 the spire, obsolete on the last whorl except in front. The whorls of 

 the spire are bisected by a median, spiral, reddish -brown line, some- 

 what dotted, and on the last whorl becoming obsolete. The apex is 

 black, this color forming a wide belt below the suture of the first 1 

 whorls, then changing to a series of alternately dark and white 

 spots bounded by a brown line below. These gradually become 

 stripes, which are narrower and twice as numerous above as below 

 the median brown line, becoming wider downward, and on the 

 penult, whorl forming a series of oblique blackish spots alternating 

 with narrower creamy ones just above the suture, and continuing at 

 the periphery of the last whorl, which has in addition a continuous 

 spiral band on the base. A broad blackish varix-stripe is near the 

 end of the penult, whorl, and there are two varices on the back of 

 the last whorl. The interior is bright lilac ; the parietal wall, 

 columella and a basal area around it are black. The columella is 

 strongly twisted, and markedly convex in the middle. Length 44, 

 diam. 24, longest axis of aperture 23 mill.; whorls 6^. 



The surface is faintly marked with growth-stride, and shows slight 

 evanescent traces of spiral lines on the spire. 



LIGUUS VIRGINEUS L. Vol. xii, p. 1G2. 



Add to synonyms : Helix regina Feruss., BOWDICH, Elem. of 

 Conch., pi. 8, f. 26. 



