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nearly 7-toothed : one parietal lamella, a subquadrangular columellar 



lamella, third tooth oblique ami on the left side of the effuse base, 

 and within the outer lip there are three snbequal and one minute 

 fold. Peristome white, moderately expanded throughout. Length 

 23-25, diam. 7^-8 mill.; aperture with peristome 8i mill, long, 5 

 wide (Pfr.^). Brazil: Santa Caiharina (Cuming coll.). 



Bulhiuis catharinee PFR., P. Z. S., 1 .*)), p. 389; Monogr. iv, 436. 



Very closel}' related to 0. ftisiformls Mke., as Pl'eitfer remarks, 

 and probably a variety of that South Brazilian species. 



O. PUXOTATI3S1MU8 (LeSSOll). PI. 10, figs. 38, 39, 40, 41. 



Shell deeply rimate, fusiform, gray-white reticulated 01 finely 

 marbled with opaque-white, having a wide blackish streak behind 

 the lip, interrupted by transverse white marks. Surface very 

 shallowly pitted, and finely striate spirally. S;'ire having convex 

 outlines, rose-tinted near the summit, the apex obtuse. Whorls 8, 

 but slightly convex ; the last tapering below, pinched at the base 

 into a short carina in the middle, grooved on the umbilical side of 

 the carina. Aperture oblique, oblong, obstructed by 7 to 9 white 

 teeth : a compressed parietal lamella ; a large subvertical columellar 

 lamella ; two small, compressed approximate folds within the basal 

 margin, the right one sometimes wanting- and three acute folds 

 within the outer lip, the median one (upper palatal) usually larger; 

 frequently there is another minute fold within the lip near the suture, 

 and sometimes a very small angular fold is developed opposite it on 

 the parietal wall. Intervals between the folds blackish-brown. 

 Peristome white (rarely rose), very widely expanded and reflexed, 

 flattened. 



Length 27, diam. 8, length of aperture 1(H mill. 



Length 26^, diam. 8^, length of aperture 11 mill. 



Brazil : lUia de Sta. Catharina. prov. Sta. Catharina (Lesson, 

 King); Province of Sao Paulo, at Iguape etc. (v. Ihering). 



Clausilia punctatissima LESSON, Voy. de la Coquille, Zool. ii, pt. 

 1, p. 329, pi. 15, f. 3 (living animal), a, b (shell), 1830 ; Isis, 1833, 

 p. 131, no. 74, pi. 2, f. 3 (copy of preceding). Bulimus punctali.^i- 

 nms PFR., Symbol* ii, p. 120 ; Monogr. ii, p. 84; iii, 367 ; iv, 436; 

 vi, 75 ; Conchyl. Cab. p. 192, pi. 56, f. 5, 6 REEVE, Conch. Icon, 

 pi. 38, f. 225. Clausilia exesa POT. & MICH., Galerie, i, p. 190, pi. 

 19, f. 17, 18 (1838). Helix exesa FEK., Hist., pi. 163, f. 3, 4 ; not 



