BUL1MUS. 135 



REEVE, Con. Icon. No. 594, (1849). 

 Achatina gracillima BLXNEY, 1. c. 



I have removed this species to the genus in which Pfeif- 

 fer places it. 



BULIMUS GOSSEI PFEIFFER. 



T. rimata, turrito-cylindracea, oblique eostulata, albida, opaca, strigis 

 semilunaribus, punctisque pellucidis corneis ornata ; spira cylindraeea 

 apice attenuata, acuta ; sutura crenulata ; anfr. 11 convexi, ultimus | 

 longitudinis vix superans, rotundatus, basi subangulatus ; apertura sub- 

 circularis; perist. breviter expansum, marginibus approximatis, columel- 

 lari reflexo, patente. Long. 11, diam. 3| mill. Ap. 3^ mill, longa, 3^ 

 lata. 



Var. /3, Paulo minor, strigis et punctis corneis obsoletioribus, (Pfr. 

 Mon. Hel. Viv. i. 81, &c. &c.) 



Pfeiffer gives Texas as the habitat of var. |3 of this 

 species in his Monograph, and also on p. 456 of Roemer's 

 Texas it is quoted from New Brauenfels. The typical 

 specimen is from Jamaica. 



Poey (Mem. i. 395) considers Macrocerramus pontificus 

 a synonym of BuL Gossei ; the same species is referred by 

 Pfeiffer to BuL Kieneri. 



I have seen no Texan specimen of the species, and have 

 no means of clearing the confusion which appears to exist 

 concerning it. Reeve's figure of Kieneri resembles Macr. 

 pontificus nearer than his figure of Gossei. 



BULOIUS HARPA SAY vol. ii. p. 290, pi. lii. fig. 3. 



Helix harpa SAY, (Binney's ed.) p. 29, pi. Ixxiv. fig. 1. 

 Bulimus harpa PFEIFFER, 1. c. iii. 384. 



CHEMNITZ, ed. 2, No. 305, pi. Ix. figs. 17-19. 



REEVE, Con. Icon. No. 596, (1849). 



Found at various points in Maine, and at Berlin Falls, 

 N. H., by E. S. Morse, Esq., who gives the following de- 

 scription of the animal : 



Animal small compared to the size of the shell. Body and head 



