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2. BULIMUS ZEBRA. 



PLATES LII. LIII. L1V. 



B. testa sub-conica, glabra, albida, strigis fuscis longitu- 

 dinalibus undatis ornata, aliisque transversis cincta ; anfract- 

 ibus sex vel septem, ultimo magno, convexo ; columella 

 integra, imperforata ; labro simplici, acuto, fusco aut nigro. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



Butcinum selra, MULLER, I. c. II. 138, anno 1774. 

 Butta selra, GMEL., 1. c. 3431, No. 31. 

 Zebra Mulleri, CHEMNITZ, IX. tab. 118, f. 1015-16. 

 llulimus zebra, PFEIFFER, Monog. Ht-lic. Viv. II. 143. 



REEVE, Conch. Icon. fig. 90. 

 Bulimus undatus, BRUG. 1. c. No. 38. 

 Helix undata, FERUSSAC, Hist. pi. 114, f. 5, 8, pi. 115. 

 Bulimus undatus, LAMARCK, 2d ed. VIII. 223. 



D'ORBIGNY, 1. c. Moll. 264. 



VALENC. 1. c. II. 245. 

 Bulimus melanockeilus, Ibid. II. 246. 

 Achatina pulcketta, SPIX, 1. c. pi. 9, f. 3. 

 Eulimiis princeps, BRODERIP, in Sow. 1. c. pi. 27, No. 18. 

 Achatina /lammigera, SAY, Journ. Ac-ud. V. 122. 

 Helix undata, MORICAND, 1. c. VII. 423. 



DESCRIPTION. 



ANIMAL thick and massive, dirty, or yellowish white, 

 darker on the middle of the back ; surface rugose, with 

 prominent, oblong glands, and deep furrows. Whole 

 length, exclusive of tentacles, three inches. Superior 

 tentacles, when fully extended, one inch long, bulbous, 

 with small, black, ocular points ; lower tentacles one-fifth 

 of an inch long, slender. Orifice of generation behind 

 lower tentacle on the right side. Mantle somewhat 



