254 LIMICOLARIA, WEST AFRICA. 



strire evanescent below the middle. Aperture suboval, bluish 

 inside; peristome simple, unexpended, the columellar margin 

 dilated above, reflexed. Length 104, diam. 52, aperture 57 x 

 29 mm. (Jouss.) . 



West Africa: Upper Senegal (Bellamy). 



L. bcllamyi Jouss., Bull, de la Soc. Zool. de France, xi, 

 1886, p. 475, pi. 12, f. 1. KOBELT, C. Cab., p. 68, pi. 21, 

 f. 1 (copy). 



Near L. kambeul, and apparently the same as the var. 

 adansoni of that species. Jousseaume, however, includes that 

 species also in his paper, under the name L. kambeuil. 



9. L. AFRICAN A (Reeve). PL 18, fig. 98. 



Shell acuminately ovate, deeply umbilicated, whorls 9, some- 

 what rounded, reticulately striated and very finely concen- 

 trically wrinkled, crenated at the sutures ; columella straight, 

 rolled back; livid white, faintly marked with rather distant 

 longitudinal chestnut-brown flames (Reeve). Length 107, 

 diam. 56 mm. (from fig.). 



"West coast of Africa (Cuming coll.). 



Bulimus africanus REEVE, Conch. Icon., v, pi. 50, f. 330 

 (Nov., 1848). PFR., Monogr., iii, p. 384. L. africana 

 SHUTTL., Notitiee, i, p. 39. KGBELT, Conch. Cab., p. 116, pi. 

 32, f. 1, 2. Bulimus speciosus Parr., teste Pfr. 



Kobelt, who figures smaller specimens, remarks that it 

 differs from L. Jcamlbcul only by the open umbilicus sur- 

 rounded by an angle, as well as the more obese last whorl; 

 and he considers transition forms between them as not im- 

 probable. The original description and figure are given. 



10. L. VIGNONIANA (Morelet). PI. 20, fig. 14. 



Shell covered-perforate, oblong, rather thin, irregularly 

 striate, and under a lens seen to be decussate in places; buff- 

 fulvous, silky, little shining, variegated with buff at the 

 sutures. Spire long-conic, the apex obtuse. Whorls 9, a 

 little convex, the upper ones granose-striate, joined by a 

 deep suture, the last a little shorter than the spire, slightly 

 tapering at the base, and obscurely marked Avith a brown 



