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Buliimis hepatostomiis PFR. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 23, pi. 3, fig. 4; Malak. 

 Blatt. viii. p. 13 (1861); Monogr. Helic. Vivent. vi, p. 43. Bidimithis 

 (Drymaus) hepatostomiis FISCH. & CROSSE, Miss. Scient. Mex., Mol- 

 lusca, i, p. 493, pi. 21, fig. 2, 2ct. Otostomus hepatostomus MARTENS, 

 Biol. Centr. Amer. Moll., p. 217, pi. 13, f. 18-20. 



kb Nearly allied to O. attenuates, but less attenuated, also somewhat 

 variable in form. The brownish hue of the inside of the aperture is 

 in some specimens very distinct, in others scarcely to be seen. On 

 the outside of the second half of the last whorl the shell becomes in 

 some examples rather wrinkled." (Martens.) 



D. COSTARICENSIS (Pfeiffer). PI. 2, figs. 19, 20 (21, 22). 



Shell perforate, ovate-fusiform, rather solid, irregularly striate, 

 whitish, painted with interrupted or serrate streaks of buff and light 

 red. Spire conic, the apex rather acute, corneous. Whorls 5, 

 scarcely convex, the last three-fifths the total length of the shell, more 

 inflated, having a prominent varix in the middle, tapering at base; 

 columella compressed, thread like, slightly twisted. Aperture sub- 

 vertical, oblong-oval; peristome simple, narrowly expanded. 



Alt. 23, diam. 11, length of aperture 14| mill. (Pfr.~) 



Alt. 31^, diam. 18^, length of aperture 16 mill. (Martens.) 



Central Costa Rica : San Jose (Pittier and Biolley) ; San Fran- 

 cisco de los Rios, near San Jose, on hedges (Pittier) ; Alajuela, at an 

 elevation of 900-1000 metres above the sea (Orosco) ; Cartago and 

 Navarro (Boucard) ; elevated plain of Costa Rica (Hoffmann). 



Buliimis costaricensis PFR. in Malak. Blatt. ix, p. 153 (1862) ; 

 Monogr. Helic. Vivent. vi, p. 47 ; Novit. Conch. Hi, p. 419, pi. 95, 

 figs. 11, 12. ANGAS, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 478.Buh'imibts (Drymaits) 

 costaricensis PAETEL, Catalog, p. 100 Otostomus costaricensis 

 MARTENS, Biol. Centr. Amer. p. 217. Bidimus navarrensis ANGAS, 

 P. Z. S. 1878, p. 73, pi. 5, figs. 15, 16. 



" Very near Otostomus attenuates and 0. hepatostomiis, but less 

 attenuated, and with the stripes more interrupted, appearing in the 

 upper whorls rather like interrupted spiral bands. Rather variable 

 in size and proportional breadth : see the measurements given under 

 the description above. Most of the specimens I have seen are some- 

 what more elongated and less ventricose than Pfeifler's original type ; 

 but there are many gradations in this respect. 



" Dr. Pfeiffer received his specimen of this species from Dr. von der 



