LIGUUS. 401 



Doubtful Species of Achatina. 



Liguus Virgineus, Montfort, Conch. Syst., II. 423, Louisiana. {A. Virgineus, 

 Jay, Wheatley. Bulimus vexillum, DeKay.) The species is from Haiti. 



Acliatina lubrica, Binney. See Ferussacia subcylindrica. 



Achatina bullata, Pfr. See Glandina. 



Achatina truncata, Pfr. See Glandina. 



Achatina Vanuxemensis, Lea. See Glandina. 



Achatina rosea, Deshayes. See Glandina truncata. 



Achatina striata, DeKay, is Glandina truncata. See Terr. Moll., IV. 139. 



Achatina subula, Pfr. See Stenogyra. 



Achatina Texasiana, Pfr. See Glandina. 



Acliatina australis, Villa, N. Am., Disp., 19. Unknown to me. 



Achatina pcllucida, Pfr. See Blauneria. See Vol. IV. 



Achatina gracillima, Pfr. See Stenogyra. 



Achatina flammigcra, Say (ed. Binney, 29) = Orthalicus undatus. 



Achatina flammigera, Ferussac. See Vol. IV. 138. 



Achatina mucronata, etc. , etc., Maine, Ravenel's Cat.,' 1874, 44, is a typograph- 

 ical error for Achatintlla mucronata of Maui. 



Achatina , Baffin's Bay. See Morch, Am. Journ. Conch., IV. 38. 



D. GONIOGNATHA. 



Jaw in separate pieces, the upper median one usually triangular ; marginal 

 teeth quadrate. 



LIGUUS, Montf. 



Animal heliciform, obtuse before, long and pointed behind ; mautle subcen- 

 tral, protected by a shell ; other characters as in Orthalicus, q. v. 



Shell imperforate, solid, elongate-conic, apex acuminated, variously fas- 

 ciated; whorls 7-8, the last equalling about one third the shell's length.; 

 columella constricted, distinctly truncate in adult individuals ; aperture lunate- 

 oval, subangulated ; peristome straight, acute, its margins joined by an enter- 

 ing callus. 



But very few species of this genus are known, restricted to Cuba and Haiti. 

 One of them has, however, been quoted from Guiana, and another has become 

 naturalized in our Florida Subregion, having been introduced into the south- 

 ern extremity of the peninsula. 



Jaw thick, arcuate, ends rapidly attenuated, pointed; composite, being in 

 numerous, separate, free, imbricated, triangular pieces, 

 with sutures inclined obliquely'to the centre of the jaw, 

 so as to leave an upper median, angular piece ; other 

 pieces are soldered together above. Cutting edge with 

 no median projection, serrated by the lower angles of jawofZ. virginew 

 the oblique pieces. For more detailed description see 



below, under Orthalicus, which has a similar jaw. I am not able to give a 

 figure of the jaw of the only species found within our limits, L. fascialus. I 



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