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ipliery (as in figs. 35, 37\and above (fig. 3*i; the general black- 

 in^- -iiiiietiines iii(erni|iled by some dirty white, rougli variees (as 

 in fig. .37). Surface sculptured witli irregular growth-wrinkles, 

 often rougher and finely plicatulate on the last whorl, the latter half 

 of which is frequently coarsely plicate. Whorls ; V to 7, the first 

 obtu.-e, often amputated and plugged, the rest moderately convex. 



Aperture oblique, ovate, red-purple within, becoming paler in the 

 throat and darker towards the lip ; peristome blunt, not expanded, 

 pale-edged, with a dark-brown border inside ; columella purple, bi- 

 sinuate, its reflexed callus and the strong parietal callus almost 

 black. 



Alt. 09, diam. 34, longest axis of aperture 30 mill. 



Alt. 02, diam. '21), longest axis of aperture 3'2 mill. 



Alt. 01, diam. 32, longest axis of aperture 32 mill. 



Colombia: Ciiopa, in the province of Pamplona (Linden) ; Cucutn 

 (Bland); Can<>/i>s, Ecuador (Stiabel). 



Achatina wy//m U, l'rn., .Monogr. Hel. Viv. ii, p. 244 A. regina 

 Di -ii. in Fer., Hist., p. 1 I">, pi. 122. f. -s, '.'. linllnins n-i/fun (part) 



Kri \ i , ('onch. Icon. pi. 27, f. 1 G8 b Achatina atrainciiturin Pri:., 



P. /. S. l<S."i.">, 110. Oi-tliulicus atranieiifiiriim Pi i;., Monogr. iv, p. 

 ;")i>l ; vi, p. 202. 0. (Ciiroiiu) ti/rt/>iii'ttF<in'ns Pri:., Malak. Uliitt. 

 is."),"), p. 107. Bullmus boussingaultii Ilri'K in C'astelnau's I''.x|icil. 

 dans 1'Amrr. du Snd Moll., p. 37. pi. 0, f. 2 ( lH. r >7 ). Orthaliois 

 (CiirniKt) iixlcx Sin 'fn.Kwoi; i ii. Xotitia- iMalacologicie, i. p. 08, pi. 

 4. f. * M.S;"C.). MAHTKXS, Concliol. Mitlheil. p. l.V.L 



Smaller than (). >nlii>its<>/ii. differently colored, the aperture 

 pinkish-purple within, while ill itiltiiiisiiiif it is white, shading into 

 vioh-t or bluish-purple toward the lip-margin. The last whorl vari-^ 

 from mottled to a uniform blackish-purple in specimens from a single 

 locality ; mv figures ."('.. .".7 and 7 being drawn from shells collected 

 at Cucuta. Pteitler gives the length of his type as SI mill., which 

 i- larger than any of the specimens in our collection. Occasional 

 shells (figs. .'50. .'17) have some patches of a scarlet-brown color at 

 tin- eibje of tin- blackish tract. Something of the same sort is si-en 

 in somi- specimens of <). m/<niixi>ni. 



Both of the >vnon\m-, iinli'ft and bousgingaultti, were based upon 

 the true iitr'inieitliiri'ns, and do not stand for varietal forms. 



