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S. OBLONGUS Miiller. PI. 14, figs. 70, 71, 72, 73. 



Shell ovate, conic and acuminate above, solid; sutures not very 

 oblique. Color dull isabelline or brownish under a very thin, decid- 

 uous brownish cuticle, usually in large part lost in adults. Whorls 

 5JJ-7. Nepionic shell of 4 whorls, very regularly and closely rib- 

 striate, the last one or two granulated ; post-nepionic growth over 2 

 whorls, more irregularly striated, last whorl not granulated, wrinkle- 

 striate. 



Aperture ovate, whitish within; peristome and parietal callus rose- 

 red. Outer lip regularly arched, reflexed ; columella slightly con- 

 cave, reflexed in abroad, projecting, thin-edged, strong callus, which 

 spreads above over the parietal wall. 



Alt. 100, diam. 59 mill, (average specimen). 



Alt. 132, diam. 76 mill, (specimen in coll. Johnson). 



Barbados, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad; Puerto Cabello, Vene- 

 zuela; Cucuta, Santa Ana, near Honda, New Granada; Mocamba, 

 Miobamba, Para, etc., Brazil (coll. Acad. Phila.) ; Central Paraguay 

 (Borelli) U. S. of Columbia, region of Muzo, at 600-800 meters; 

 in the Magdalena valley, 500 meters ; and near Ibague in the moun- 

 tain region of Columbia, 1280 meters; Puenta de Pandi, 779 meters; 

 also on the Rio Tocantins near Baiao, N.-E. Brazil, 5 meters above 

 the sea (Stiibel) ; Corumba. Prov. Mattogrosso (Coll. Johnson) ; Santa 

 Anna Valley Peru (Angrand). Extends from New Granada and 

 ( 'dijenneto Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay, as far west as the east- 

 ern slope of the Andes. 



Helix oblonga MULL., Hist. Vermium ii, p. 86, and of Bonx, 

 GMKLIN, DILLYWN. Bulimus oblong us BRUG., Encycl. Mt-th. i, p. 

 318. ORBIGNY, Voy. Am. Merid. p. 297. REEVE, C. Icon. f. 210. 

 PFR., Monogr. ii, p. 21 ; iii, 304; iv, 366; vi, 10; Couchyl. Cab. 

 pi. 22, f. 1, 2. DROUET, Moll. Guyan. Fr. p. 58, pi. 2, f. 25, 26 

 (egg and young). MART., Novit. Conch, v, p. 17 ; Conch. Mittheil. 

 i, p. 157. HEYNEMANN, Malak. Bl. 1868, p. 107, pi. 5, f. 7 (jaw and 

 teeth). SEMPER, Reisen ; p. 150, pi. 14, f. 10; pi. 16, f. 25 ; pi. 17, 

 f. 1 (anatomy). PARAVICINI, Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. comp. 

 Univ. Torino, ix, no. 181, p. 5. Turbo ha;maslomus GMEL., Syst. 

 Nat. p. 3596. Bulimus hcemastomus SCOPOLI Delic. Flor. et Faun. 

 Insub. p. 67, pi. 25, f. 1, 2 (probably). LEACH, Zool. Misc. i, pi. 29. 

 GUILD., Zool. Journ. ii, p. 440, suppl. pi. 16 bis, f. 1-4. KUSTER, 

 Conchy 1. Cab. Bui., p. 5, pi. 1, f. 3, 4. TROSCHEL, Archiv f. Naturg. 

 1849, i, p. 227, pi. 4, f. 1. LESSON, Centime Zoologique 1830, pi. 77. 



