1:64 LIMICOLARIA, WEST AFRICA. 



40, diam. 18-19; length of apert. 16.5-18, width 11-12 mm. 

 (Morel). 



AVest Africa: Serra de Pedras de Guinga (Pungo-An- 

 dongo), in virgin forest, on high ground, Angola (Wel- 

 witsch). 



Bulimns chromatdlus MOREL., Journ. de Conch., 1866, p. 

 154; Voy. Dr. AVelwitsch, p. 62, pi. 3, f. 2. L. chromatella 

 PFR., Monogr., vi, 209. KOBELT, C. Cab., p. 115, pi. 31, f. 

 3, 4; pi. 33, f. 7, 8. 



Related to L. tcnebrica Reeve, of which Morelet thinks it 

 may be a local variety. 



23. L. TENEBRICA (Reeve). PI. 19, figs. 8, 9, 10. 



" Shell cylindrically oblong, whorls 7-8, rather rounded, 

 very finely reticulated near the sutures, crenulated along the 

 edge ; columella rolled back, lip simple, sharp ; whitish, stained 

 with purple-rose and conspicuously painted with large 

 blotches of purple-black ' (Reeve) . 



West Africa: Ibu (Fraser, type loc.) ; Kamerun, at 

 Ekumba-Liongo (Dusen) ; Grand Bassam (Verreaux). 



Bitlimus tcncbrlcus RVE., Conch. Icon., v, pi. 53, f. 347 

 (Nov., 1848). PFR., Monogr., iii, p. 387. L. tenebrica 

 SHUTT., Notitia?, i, p. 50. PFR., Monogr., iv, 585. KOBELT, 

 Conchyl. Cab., p. 66, pi. 20, f. 7, 8 ( ?). D'AILLY, Bihang. 

 p. 74. 



The whorls are decidedly convex. Fig. 8 is Reeve's type. 

 I figure two specimens received from Sowerby & Fulton as 

 from Sierra Leone, which seem referable to tenclrica. One 

 (fig. 9) has rather wide stripes on a pale i eddish ground; 

 the other (fig. 10) much more numerous and narrower stripes 

 on a yellow ground. Only a few almost obsolete spiral lines 

 are present in these shells, which could not be described as 

 '' finely reticulated near the sutures." 



24. L. SUBCONICA Martens. PI. 21, figs. 26, 27. 



Shell half-covered perforate, turrite-conic, a little glossy, 

 delicately strialulate ; isabelline-whitish, marked with few 

 rather wide chestnut streaks, which taper above, or uni- 



