GLANDINA. 



3. GLANDINA TRUNCATA, SAY. 

 PLATES LIX. L\. LXI. FIGURE 2. 



G. testa oblongo-ovata, licet lanceolato-ovata, solidiusculi, 

 nitida, cornea vel saepissime cinerascente rosaceo tincta, 

 longitrorsum plicato-striata ; anfractibus ad septem convex- 

 iusculis, ultimo cylindraceo antice angustato ; sutura sub- 

 crenulata ; apertura lunata, angusta. 



SYNONYMS AND REFERENCES. 



Sulla truncata, GJIELIN, p. 3434. 



Bucdnum striatum, CHEM., IX. 36, tab. 120, f. 1028, 29? 

 Bulimus striatus, BKUG., Encycl. Meth. I. 366. 

 CoMicopa r AX,., FERUS., Prodrom. 356 ; 



Hist, des Moll. pi. 135, f. 3, pi. 136, f. 6 - 10. 



Achatina rosea, DESE., Encycl. Meth. II. 10; ed. Lamarck, VIII. 313. 

 Ackatina truncata, D'ORB., Mull. Cub. I. 163, pi. 10, f. 13. 



REEVE, Conch. Icon. pi. 13, f. 47. 

 Polyphemus glans, SAY, Journ. Acad. JNat. Sc. I. 282. 

 Glandina truncata, SAY, Amer. Conch, pi. 20 ; 



CHENTT. ed. (Bib. Conch.) III. 28, pi, 7, f. 2, 2a. 



BECK, Index, p. 78. 



PFEIFFEE, Monog. Helic. Viv. II. 2S6. 



DESCRIPTION. 



ANIMAL twice the length of the shell, pale chestnut 

 color, with pale bluish reflections ; surface finely reti- 

 culated ; a delicate channel runs along the median line 

 of the neck, terminating between the superior tentacles, 

 on each side of which are oblique folds. 



SHELL strong, ovate-fusiform or ellipsoidal, obtuse at 

 tip, of a pale, ashy fawn color, or rather, alternately 

 striped with ash color and fawn color, and more or less 

 tinted rose color, the surface shining and delicately fluted 

 with longitudinal, raised, and rounded strice. Whorls six 



