110 PLACOSTYLUS, FIJI IS. 



luwish inside ; peristome thickened, spreading below, but scarcely 

 reflexed, yellowish, the margins approaching and connected by a 

 thin but distinct callus; columellar margin scarcely reflexed, bearing 

 a strong, twisted and compressed whitish fold above. (Kobelt.') 



Alt. 38, diam. 20, aperture 20 mill. 



Viti Levu, in the interior. 



Bulimus elobatus PFR., Novit. Conch, iii, p. 418, pi. Do, f. 7, 8 



(not of Gould) Placostylus pfeijf'eri KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab. p. 



130, pi. 32, f. 2, 3 (1891). 



A small, solid species, probably near P. ochrostoma ; considered by 

 Pfeiffer a variety of P. elobatus, and by Crosse referred to P. graeffei 

 as a var. -minor . It is shorter and wider than P. vitiensis Garrett. 

 Tlie type is in Dohrn's collection. 



P. VITIENSIS Garrett. Unfigured, 



" Shell umbilicated, oblong-ovate, rather solid, slightly shining ; 

 rosy flesh color beneath a thin translucent epidermis, which is decor- 

 ated with longitudinal olive-green zigzag stripes; surface of the last 

 t\\<> whorls with small longitudinal stria? and small transverse corru- 

 gations ; spire obtuse, decorticated, minutely punctured, two-thirds 

 the length of the shell ; whorls 5, moderately convex, the last one 

 attenuated at the base ; aperture slightly oblique, oblong, auriform, 

 light-fulvous ; peristome white, rather widely expanded and some- 

 what reflected; columellar lip dilated, and the fold oblique and 

 prominent." Length 41, diam. 17 mill. (Garrett.} 



Placostylus vitiensis Garr., SCHMELTZ, Mus. Godeffroy Catal. vi, 

 p. 81 (no description) GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 184. 



" I obtained 20 living examples of this species, which were col- 

 lected by the natives at Na Viti Levu Bay, on the N.-E. coast of 

 Viti Levu. It is smaller and a more graceful species than P. fulgu- 

 ratus and the base is more contracted." (Garrett). 



P. GRACILIS (Broderip). PI. 41, figs. 80, 81, 82, 83. 



Shell openly compressed-umbilicate, oblong, rather solid, pink or 

 white under a pale olive-buff, yellow or rufous-buff cuticle, marked 

 with irregular or zigzag olive flames, streaks and spots; the spire 

 uniform red or yellowish-white. Surface somewhat glossy, closely 

 striated and strongly, densely corrugated spirally. Apex obtuse ; 

 whorls 4^ to 4|, moderately convex, the last oblong, inflated. 



