270 LIMICOLARIA, CONGO BASIN. 



ulate; corneous, irregularly maculate with indistinct tawny 

 flames. Whorls 7, a little convex, suture lightly crenulate, 

 the upper whorls regular, the last dilated, a little exceeding 

 the height of the spire. Aperture oval, vertical, the lip 

 acute, columella whitish, incurved, the columellar margin re- 

 flexed over the perforation and nearly reaching to the base. 

 Length 38, diam. 18, length of aperture 18 mm. (Putz.}. 



Congo Free State: Wathen. 



L. wathenensis PUTZ., Bull. Soc. Roy. Mai. Belg., xxxiii, 

 1898, p. iv, f. 1. 



The figures and descriptions of this and the following 

 three species are from Putzeys. 



32. L. PALUDCSA Putzeys. PL 17, fig. 90. 



Shell narrowly perforate, oblong-turrite, rather solid, 

 glossy, striatulate ; spire elongate, the apex obtuse ; suture 

 not very deep, rather regularly crenulate. Whorls 1-1 1 /2, a 

 little convex, ornamented with wide stripes or flames, sin- 

 uous and sometimes confluent, usually evanescent; the first 

 4y 2 corneous or wine-reddish, irregularly and very distantly 

 decussated with spiral lines, following whorls yellowish, the 

 last obtusely angulate in three-fourths of the periphery. 

 Aperture oval, tapering basally, the lip acute, milky within, 

 showing the external streaks slightly ; columella straightened, 

 vertical, blackish violaceous, the margin reflexed over the per- 

 foration. Length 35, diam. 15, length of aperture 15 mm. 

 (Putz.} . 



Congo Free State: Bena Bendi. 



L. paludosa PUTZ., t, c., p. iv, f. 2. 



33. L. DISTINCTA Putzeys. PI. 17, fig. 89. 



Shell narrowly perforate, conic-turrite, rather solid, striat- 

 ulate; spire turrite, the apex obtuse; suture slightly cren- 

 ulate. Whorls 7-7V-2, a little convex, brownish-yellow, irreg- 

 ularly marked Avith narrow streaks or flames folloAving the 

 groAvth-lines, Avider above the suture; the last Avhorl oblong, 

 1;; i >ering toAA^ards the base, the streaks or flames more or less 

 wide in the middle, sometimes forked above the periphery. 



