130 I1EL1CEA. 



ventricosus, 5-7 long, testas aequans ; apertura ovata ; perist. simplex, 

 intus incrassatum, marginibus callo albo, crasso, junctis, columellari re- 

 flexo, umbilicum subtegente. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



I 



Bulimus patriarcha W. G. BINNEY, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1858, 116; Notes, 



p. 17. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Animal not observed. 



Shell perforate, ovate, heavy, white, and wrinkled ; 

 whorls 6, convex, the last ventricose, equalling in length 

 5-7 of the shell ; aperture ovate ; peristome simple, thick- 

 ened within, the extremities joined by a heavy white 

 callus, the columellar extremity slightly reflected, so as 

 partially to conceal the umbilicus. 



Length 35, diam. 19 ; aperture, length 19, diarn. 12 mill- 

 imetres. 



Geographical Distribution. Texas and Mexico, at Buena 

 Vista, (Berlandiere). 



Remarks. Belongs to the same group as Bui. dealbatus 

 Say, alternatus Say, liqualis Reeve, Schiedeanus Pf., &c. 

 The characteristics which form its specific differences are 

 alike present in young and old specimens, and constant 

 in all from the locality. I therefore consider it as well 

 entitled to specific distinction as those named. 



Named from its greater size and more antiquated ap- 

 pearance, as compared with the allied species. 



BULIMUS DEALBATUS SAY . . vol. ii. p. 276, pi. li. fig. 1 ; pi. Ixxx. figs. 6, 7. 



Helix dealbata SAY, (Binney's ed.) p. 20. 

 DEKAY, N. Y. Moll. p. 46. 

 Bulimus dealbatus CHEMNITZ, ed. 2, p. 55. 

 PFEIFFER, 1. c. iii. 418. 

 Bulimus coiifinis REEVE, Con. Icon. No. 643, (1850). 



PFEIFFER, 1, c. iii. 341. 

 Bulimus liquabilis REEVE, 1. c. 387. 



On plate 51, fig. 1, will be found a correct representa- 



