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fore part; aperture toothed or edentulate ; peristome labiate 



within. 



fusiformis, Loire. terebella, Loire. 



melanopsoides, Lour. tornatellina, Lowe. 



mitriformis, Loire. tridens, Pultn. 



oryza, Loire. triticea, Loire. 



pupseformis, Cantr. tuberculata, Loire. 



Genus GLANDINA, Schumacher. 



Mouth in the form of a short retractile muzzle; jaws 

 none ; eye-peduncles ending in a swelling, -which is inflexed 

 and prolonged heyond the eyes; a retractile attenuated 

 labial palp on each side of the oral aperture. 



Shell fusiform, imperforate, oblong-ovate, more or less 

 turriculated, usually horny, and covered with a thin, fugace- 

 ous epidermis, last whorl attenuated at the base ; aperture 

 narrow, elliptic-oblong ; columella slender, arcuated forwards, 

 truncated at the base ; peristome simple, acute. 



Si/n. Polyphemus, Mont/., not Linn. 



Ex. G. Carminensis, Morelct, pi. 71, fig. 2. Shell, G. 

 rosea, Ferussac, fig. 2, a. 



The animals of this genus, which nearly corresponds to 

 the Cochlicopa of Ferussac, are predaceous in their habits, 

 and, like those of the family TestaeelUdce, carnivorous ; they 

 attack with avidity Bulimi as large as themselves and devour 

 them. When they have chosen a shell, they probe the aper- 

 ture with their palps before penetrating it, the buccal mass 

 is then protruded, and the contents consumed through the 

 aperture they make with their teeth. The species inhabit 

 America and the West Indies, living on the bushes near the 

 sea. The group, Melia, is from the island of Jamaica, 

 while a few species of Acicula arc from Europe and Africa. 



