ACHATINA, EAST AFRICA. 41 



40. A. PANTHERA Ferussac. PL 38, fig. 31. 



Shell acutely ovate, solid and strong, whitish with rather 

 wide purplish streaks shading into the ground-color and 

 bluish on the right, more sharply denned and browner on the 

 left side; more or less marked also with a finer, indistiuct 

 dappled or zigzag pattern. Surface smoothish or rather 

 coarsely plicatulate on the last half whorl, indistinctly de- 

 cussate on the spire, several early whorls being smooth. 

 Whorls iy 2 , convex. Aperture blue-white within, the outer 

 lip dusky at the edge, columella and parietal callous rose- 

 colored, the columella rather straight, strong and conspicu- 

 ously truncate. 



Length 151, diam. 75, aperture 76 mm. (fig. of Ferussac's 

 type). 



Length 120, diam. 66, aperture 68 mm. 



East Africa: from Zanzibar Island south to Quilimane 

 (Stuhlmann) and to the Lobombo Mts. opposite Delagoa Bay 

 (Penther), and inland to Zomba, at 5,000 ft. elev., near the 

 south end of L. Nyasa (Whyte), Tette on the Zambesi 

 (Peters), and Queensriver at the Victoria mine, near Barber- 

 ton, eastern Transvaal (Penther). 



Madagascar: Port Levin, on the land side of wooded 

 dunes, under dead leaves around the trees and sometimes on 

 bushes (Vesco). 



Seychelles: Mahe, common in lowlands and up to 3-400 

 meters, rare in primitive forest (Brauer). 



Mauritius: introduced from Madagascar shortly prior to 

 1847 (Benson, J. de C., 1858, p. 267). 



Reunion (Desh. in Cat. Moll. 1'Ile Reunion, 90, referring 

 to Fer., pi. 132, f. 1, 2). 



Helix panthera FERUSSAC, Prodr., p. 49, no. 349 (nude 

 name) ; Hist., pi. 126. Achatina panthera DESH. in Lam., 

 An. s. Vert., viii, p. 309 ; and in Fer., Hist., ii, p. 159. 

 REEVE, Conch. Icon., v, pi. 3, f. 12. DOHRN, P. Z. S., 1865, 

 p. 232. MORELET, Series Conch., ii, p. 69. GIBBONS, Journ. 

 of Conch., ii, p. 143. BOURG., Descript. divers esp. Moll, de 

 1'Egypte, etc., 1879, p. 9, with "Var. B. Ach. nasimoyensis ;" 

 Moll, de 1'Afrique equat., p. 75. E. A. SMITH, P. Z. S., 



