206 COCHLOSTYLA-ORTHOSTYLUS. 



C. WOODIANA Lea. PI. 43, figs. 28, 29. 



Imperforate, oblong-conic, solid. Ground-color dark chestnut, 

 becoming light yellowish-brown above, and black on the latter part 

 of the body-whorl ; covered with cream-colored hydrophanous cuticle* 

 which is cut into bands by a number of dark, denuded broad zones 

 and narrow lines. 



Spire conical, apex obtuse, yellow-brown. Whorls 5J, the last 

 whorl slowly descending, equal to the spire in height. Aperture 

 oblique, blue-white inside ; peristome broadly, roundly reflexed, 

 brown or fleshy-violet; columella vertical, gently arcuate, flesh- 

 colored, forming a slightly projecting angle where it joins the basal 

 lip. Alt. 70, diam. 50 mill. 



Provinces Tayabas and Laguna, Luzon, Philippines. 



Bulimus woodianus LEA, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. i, p. 173 (read 

 Feb. 21, 1840; Proc. for Jan. and Feb., 1840, distributed March 

 20, 1840) ; Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. vii, p. 457, t. 11, f. 5. NOT 

 B. woodianus PFR. et al. H. Reevii BROD., P. Z. S. 1841, p. 34.- 

 Bulimus Reevii Rv., Conch. Syst. ii, t. 172, f. 1 ; Conch. Icon., f. 6. 

 B. reevei PFR., Monogr. iii, p. 295 ; Conchyl. Cab., Bui., t. 19, f. 

 5, 6. DESH. in Fer., Hist., 1. 116, f. 1, 2. Cochlostyla reevei SEMPER, 

 Reisen, p. 203. HIDALGO, Journ. de Conchyl. 1887, p. 160. C. 

 woodiana v. MOLL., Nachr. D. M. Ges. 1889, p. 104. 



This is a magnificent species, allied to C. portei, but differing in 

 coloring. It is not especially related to any other species. 



Lea's heretofore unquoted description in the Proc. Amer. Philos. 

 Soc. has indisputable priority of publication over Broderip's descrip- 

 tion in P. Z. S. under the name Reevii. The change of name is, 

 therefore, inevitable. It is surprising that so careful an author as 

 Pfeiffer should confound Lea's dark brown shell with the totally 

 diverse white species which has always been called woodianus. 



I have examined Lea's type of woodiana. It is denuded 

 of the creamy hydrophanous cuticle, except just behind the ex- 

 panded lip, where it shows the characteristic banding of the species. 



C. PORTEI Pfeiffer. PI. 44, figs. 38, 39. 



Imperforate, ovate-conic, solid ; ground-color green, becoming buff 

 on the earlier whorls ; covered with a hydrophanous cuticle of white, 

 obliquely streaked with tawny, which is cut by a couple of peripheral 

 denuded zones and a number of lines. 



