192 CLAVATOR. 



pressed lines ; solid, glossy, buff-green. Spire elongate, rather 

 obtuse; whorls 7, flattened, the last longer than the spire. 

 Aperture small, oval; peristome simple, acute, the margins 

 joined by a thin callous; columellar margin in young speci- 

 mens truncated as in Achatina (fig. 18). Length 25, diam. 

 9 mm. (Morel.). 



Prince Island: S. Joao, at 200 meters alt. (Folin, Newton) . 



Bnlimus lotophagus MOREL., Revue Zoologique 1848, p. 

 352; Series Conch, i, p. 15, pi. 1, f. 7 (1858). Achatina 

 loiophaga DESK., Fer. Hist, ii, p. 189, pi. 122, f. 15-17 

 (young). PFR., Monogr. iii, p. 490. Streptostele lotophaga 

 DOHRN, Malak. Bl. 1866, p. 129. CROSSE, Journ. de Conchyl. 

 1888, p. 297. Bocageia lotophaga GIRARD, Jornal. Sci. etc. 

 (2) iii, 1893, p. 100, pi. 1, f. 10 (teeth). 



B. lotophaga, according to Morelet, is a cylindric shell 

 which quite resembles Glandina. The surface is engraved 

 with fine, regular deep striae, imperceptible on the first whorls, 

 and is covered with a thin uniform ochre-yellow cuticle, 

 glossy in the young, and with a green tinge; but this gloss 

 with a silky appearance diminishes with time, the epidermis 

 also being partly lost. Quite rare in collections, this species 

 has up to this time been found only on the He du Prince. 



Genus CLAVATOR Martens, 1860. 



Clavator MARTENS in Albers, Die Heliceen, edit. 2, p. 312 

 (Nov., 1860), for "Bui. obtusatus, clavator Petit und nan inn 

 nouleti." -KOBELT, Couchylien Cabinet, i, 13 Abth., 2 Theil, 

 Die Familie Buliminidse, pp. 649-655. Bulimus and Obeliscus 

 sp. of authors. 



The shell is rather large, oblong or spire-shaped, imperforate 

 or rimate, covered with a yellow cuticle streaked with brown. 

 The summit is rather large, obtuse and rounded, the initial 

 whorl smooth; following whorls are closely rib-striate, and 

 sooner or later decussating spirals appear. This sculpture may 

 continue to the last whorl or become obsolete there. Aperture 

 ovate, the outer lip more or less obtuse, simple or slightly 

 expanded; columellar lip free and built forward, or adnate. 

 Columella sub vertical, more or less distinctly folded, not 



