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vaultingly reflexed, roseate. Alt. 25, diam. 10 mill.; aperture 

 mill. long. (Pfr.*). 



Merida, Colombia [Venezuela] (Cuming coll.). 



Bulimus studeri PFR., P. Z. S., 1846, p. 112 ; Monogr., ii, p. 107 ; 

 iii, p. 347 ; iv, p. 412 ; vi, p. 57. REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 57, f. 

 3g4. Bulimus primula REEVE, t. c., f. 385 (Dec., 1848). 



"The two pink bands which encircle this shell upon a shining 

 white ground are very characteristic " (five.}. 



Pfeiffer refers Reeve's B. primula to studeri as a variety It is 

 thus described : 



B. primula (pi. 43, fig. 70) " shell oblong, somewhat cylindrical, 

 umbilicated, whorls 6, smooth or obliquely finely striated, columella 

 broadly reflected, lip simple. Whitish, here and there brightly col- 

 ored with yellow, encircled with broad pink zones, apex purple- 

 brown. Merida, New Granada. A prettily painted species from 

 the same locality as the preceding [studeri], differing slightly but 

 importantly in form. The whorls are somewhat more ventricose 

 and the reflected portion of the columella more appressed " 



D. SMITHII (daCosta). PI. 50, fig. 1. 



Shell cylindric-turrited, umbilicate : whorls 6, suture impressed, 

 smooth ; under a lens showing impressed transverse striae, the strire 

 in the 2 earlier whorls finely granulate ; last whorl obliquely pro- 

 duced. Livid brownish, irregularly banded and waved, ornamented 

 with three purple-brown zones, the upper interrupted with purple, 

 arrow-shaped spots; columella purplish. Aperture half the length 

 of shell, obliquely ovate, outer lip pale buff, broadly reflexed. Alt. 

 29-], diam. 15 mill. (daCosta). 



Bogota. 



Bulimulus (Dryrnasus) Smithii DACosTA, Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond., 

 iii, p. 81, pi. 6, f. 8 (July, 1898). 



Evidently near D. blandi. 



D. CAUCAENSIS (daCosta). PL 50, fig. 85. 



Shell fusiform-til rri ted, narrowly umbilicate, whitish, with three 

 blackish interrupted, white dotted zones. Whorls 6, convex, with 

 impressed sutures, longitudinally plicate striate. Columella little 

 twisted and reflexed. Aperture ample, purplish, and two-banded 

 with white inside ; outer lip little reflexed, white ; margins joined by a 



