CO DHY1LSU8, MEXICO AM> CKXTKAI, AMEKICA. 



and, iinally, the whole shell is more or less provided with small 

 rounded impre.-sioiis, which look as if lliey had been inflicted by 

 blows from a hammer (malleated). 



D. ATTEXI ATI 3 ( IT. iffer). PI. 2, figs. G-1C.. 



Shell oblong-fusiform, thin but soliil ; white, with irregular purple- 

 brown longitudinal blotched streaks, generally broken into spots; 

 all markings sometimes lacking. Surface glossy, with inconspicuous 

 growth-striae and very fin>>, </<'i/s<', shallowly engraned s/nrl lines 

 throughout. Spire conic with slightly convex outline?, the apex ob- 

 tuse. Whorls ('., the earlier ones yellowish; last whorl oblong, tap- 

 ering below. 



Aperture oblong, white or showing ti.e markings inside; peristome 

 very gently expanded, while, thin ; the columellar margin reflexed 

 above, icif/i mi iniju-i'iatiiiii in- (jroove at its insertion; the colnmeUa 

 cord-like, ivith a long fold above. 



Alt. Ml'!, diam. }-],, length of aperture ICi mill. 



Alt. 31.1, diam. l.'lj., length of aperture 17 mill. 



E. Me xico : Vera Cruz (coll. Cuming); Orizoha ( P.oucanl, Bot- 

 teri); Cordova, commonly, on orange-trees (Ilo'ge, Berendt); Atoyac 

 (II. 11. Smith); Mirndor (Sartorius). 



HuHiiiHx (ittciiiniliiK Pii;., P. /. S. is.'tl, |). -J.'id ; in Martini & 

 Chemnitx, Sv>t. Condi. Cab. ed. '2. Ji/i/i///ns, p. M;}, pi. 30, h'gs. '.), 

 ID; Monogr. llelic. \"i\ent. iii, p. ,').']d (not of Mousson, 1854). 

 /iii/ti/ins ( J.i*fi-in-iis ) i/t/<-/iiiiif//s I'll;, in .Malak. lilatt. ii, p. \~>'2 



(18^5). Jjiifi/iiiifns (l)ri/iiii< us) tiffriiinitiis \'<>N M A KTI.NS ill Alliers' 



Di-- llelic. ed. -2, p. '2\-2. Fix n. ^ CROS8E, Mi.->. Scient. Mex. 

 Mollnsca. i. p. -191, pi. '2'.'>, li'j-. 1, la. BuKttttthta u/frtiHtitiis S 1 KKIII I,, 

 I'.'-iii-. M' \. Land- nnd Siissw. -Conch, v. pp. 7D-S1, pi. ."), figs. 

 7a, b (not fiill-gro\\n ), Sa, b, c; pi. 1,"., lig. 1 .'i (jaw ); pi. ,~>, f. 1 ." 

 (white form). ( Hostm/ms ( J )ri/nnc/ix ) uttfninitns \<i\ .M.\i;iKNs 

 Con.'h. .Miitheil. ii, p. I'.cj; liiol. C.-iitr. Amer. p. ~2\:>, pi. 1 :!, f. 1."), 

 If,, liiiliiiin* AV/o-.vV/Y/// I'l i;.. in .Malak. Blatt. xiii, p. 82 (1866); 

 Novit. ( onch. iii, p. .'{If, pi. 7-", lig. N; Monogi'. llelic. Visent. vi, 

 p. 58, 



Specimen.- colh-cied by \\ . M. (iabli in C(,sla Hica (locality not 

 more exactly recorded) are somewhat thinner than Mexican speci- 

 men.-; see pi. li', ii'j-. h', 17. So f these shells look deceptively 



