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UROCOPTIS, S. G. GONGYLOSTOMA. 



161. U. RUGELI (Shuttle worth). PI. 65, figs. 9, 10. 



"Shell slender, entire, fusiform, swollen in the middle, 

 strongly and rapidly tapering above, delicately and remotely 

 rib-striate; dull flesh colored, marbled here and there with 

 pale brownish streaks. Apex papillar. Whorls 14, a little 

 convex, the last disjoined, stretching downwards a long dis- 

 tance, slightly angulate. Aperture oblique, subcircular; 

 peristome narrowly reflexed. Alt. 9.5, diam. 1.66 mm." 

 (Shuttl.). 



Western Cuba: Yumuri Valley, near Matanzas (Rugel) ; 

 Pan and Palenque de Matanzas (Gundlach), and var. brevi- 

 collis at the plantation San Luis, in Jaruco, Prov. Havana 

 (Arango). 



Cyl. rugeli SHUTTLW., Bern, Mittheil, 1852, p. 297; PFR., 

 Monogr., iii, p. 578 ; iv, 708 ; vi, 387 ; Conchyl. Cab., p. 56, pi. 

 6, f. 13-15. ARANGO, Contrib., p. 125. C. rugeliana POEY, 

 Memorias, i, p. 397. SOWERBY, C. Icon., xx, pi. 16, f. 142. 

 C. rugeli var. brevicollis PFR., Nomencl. Hel. Viv., p. 281 

 (1878). 



A small, fusiform shell, quite delicately costulate, with the 

 lip narrowly expanded, and the axis encircled by a small 

 spiral cord. U. marmorata is closely related, but is smooth. 

 U. plicata has a much more strongly ribbed shell. 



161 a. Var. EUGLYPTA Pilsbry, n. v. PI. 64, fig. 4. 



Similar to U. rugeli in contour, but evenly sculptured with 

 narrow but well-raised riblets, hardly coarser or more spaced 

 on the last whorl. Marbled white and brown, like the typical 

 form. Length 9^/2, diam. 2 mm., whorls 11, the apex being 

 truncate. 



161 b. Var. BREVICOLLIS Pfr. 



This variety was proposed for specimens from Jaruco, and 

 has not been defined. From the name, it has apparently a 

 shorter neck than rugeli. 



162. U. PHILIPPIANA (Pfeiffer). PI. 65, figs. 1, 2, 14, 15, 16. 

 "Shell lengthened-fusiform, slender, subtruncate, thin, 



somewhat obliquely sharply striate, diaphanous, corneous- 



