104 OLEACINIBMS. 



aperture longitudinal, elongated and narrow ; columella 

 more or less truncated at the base, or tortuous. 

 Carnivorous, feeding on other mollusca. 



Genus oleacina, Bolten. 



Shell oblong-ovate or sub-cylindrical, covered with a 

 smooth olivaceous epidermis; whorls 8, the last attenuated 

 at the base, more or less equalling the spire ; columella 

 slender, arcuated forwards at the base ; aperture narrow, 

 elliptic-oblong; peristome simple, acute; outer lip usually 

 inflexed. 



Si/n. Cochlicopa, Ferussac. 



Ex. O. lubrica, Midler, pi. 71, fig. 1. Shell, 0. 

 oleacea, Ferussac, fig. 1, a. 



This genus, as restricted, which represents the American 

 Glandina, is composed of species which principally inhabit 

 the north- coast of America, the Island of Cuba, and middle 

 and southern Europe. No thus inhabits Peru ; the species 

 of Spiralis are from the Island of Jamaica; Electra is 

 principally from the East Indies, Ceylon, and other islands 

 of the Indian Seas ; the species of Ferussacia are Euro- 

 pean in their geographical distribution, living in damp 

 places under earth and moss ; and species of Azeca are 

 found in England, Dalmatia, Greece, Northern Germany, 

 and Madeira, living in damp places under fallen leaves. 



Species of Oleacina. 



assimilis, Reeve. delibuta, Morel. 



attenuata, Pfeiff. glabra, Pfeiff. 



creuulata, Sow. incerta, Peeve. 



