1 ; v COCHLOSTYLA-COCHLODRYAS. 



Jf. florida BOWB., P. Z. S. 1840, p. 87. REEVE, Conch. Syst. ii, 

 t. 163, f. 2; Conch. Icon, f. 43. PFB., Mon. i, p. 222; Conchyl. 



1... p. L' ( ..I, t. 50, f. 1, 2Bulimus helicoides PFR, Zeitschr. f. 

 Mali' 1849, p. 176;' Conch. Cab, Bui, t. 36, f. 7, 8. RVE, Conch. 



I- 'ii., t'. 72. 



\ brilliant L r reen shell, having the ground-color less streaked and 

 tin- sutiinil white hand narrower than C. polychroa. The green is 

 sometimes changed to olive. 



C. i'"i.y< IIROA Sowerby. PI. 38, figs. 74, 75, 76, 77, 78. 



Impi-rforate, globose or globose-elongated, rather thin ; conspicu- 

 o//x/;/ i,l>/i<]uely streaked with grass-green and whitish, having a wide 

 /////'/, ( rarely red) band at the suture, and frequently banded with 

 brown. 



Surface smooth, lightly obliquely striatulate, the earlier whorls 

 having microscopic spiral strue when not worn. Whorls nearly 6, 

 convex : apex obtuse. Aperture white within, oblique. Peristome 

 rather narrowly reflexed, white; columella vertical, nearly straight, 

 perceptibly truncated at its base. 



Alt. 43, diam. 31 mill. 



Alt. 4:;, diam. 34 mill. 



Alt. ">'), diam. 29 mill, (shortest specimen). 



Alt. 39, diam. 2!) mill, (most elongated specimen). 



Island of Temple, near Burias, Philippines. 



H. pnlychrnti SOWB, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 87. PFR, Monogr. i, p. 

 _"_' 1 : Conchy!. Cah. p. 295, t. 50, f. 13-15. RVE, Couch. Icon. f. 

 44. DII. in I-Y-r. Hist. t. 104 A, 1-4; 110 A; f. 3-6. H. galactites 

 fir. /,ictnr<it<i ( IIIAT, Actes Bord. xi, p. 163. ? Helicostyla smarag- 

 In.-- r> i < K, Index p. 37 (no desc.). Bidimus virido-striatus LEA, 

 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1841, p. 455, t. 11, f. 2. Cochlostyla 

 1 'li/, l <lrij,i.-<) polychroa SEMPER, Reis. Landmoll. j). 199. 



The Hitural hand is wider than that of C. florida, the shell is 

 thinner, and the columella more distinctly truncated at its base. 



The color-forms of thU beautiful species are numerous, the princi- 

 pal pattern.- lieinu- these : 



< ire, ii ami white streaked, bandless except for a wide sutural 

 wliii- zsone > ii.L r . 70). 



1'he same, luit. sutural /one red, a brown patch around the 

 columella. 



