EASTERN PROVINCE SOUTHERN REGION SPECIES. 



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Biilhniis Sdiicdeanus, van, W. G. Bixxky, Terr. Mo]]., iv, 120, pi. Ixxx, fig. 8. 

 Bidimits Mooreantis, Pfeiffer, Mou., vi, 143 (1>SGS). 



Found iu large numbers in ' Wasbiugton and De Witt Counties, 



Fig. 439. 



Fir.. 440. 



Texas, by Dr. F. W. ]\Ioore, and at 

 Leon by Lieutenant Benle. 



It is a more fragile, highly polished 

 shell than B. Schiedeanns^ and is pe- 

 culiar in having the dark apex and 

 the body-whorl light coffee-colored n jioorcanus. 

 below the npjter margin of the aperture. In 

 one case only have I observed the whole shell 

 of this color 5 it was then of a darker hue. There is an extremely 

 light, transparent callus on the parietal wall of the aperture. 



To this variety also are to be referred specimens having delicate, lon- 

 gitudinal, light wax-colored patches. (Fig. 439.) 

 Animal not observed. 



B. Mooreani'S. 



Buliniiiliis dealbatiis, Sav. 



Shell umbilicated, ovate-conical or rather ventricose, thin, white, 



with longitudinal lines and blotches of ash ; suture 



Fig. 441. 



impressed; whorls G to 7, ventricose, acuminate, the 

 last equaling the spire; aperture oval; peristome acute, 

 rarely a little thickened within, somewhat reflected at 

 its columellar portion and partially hiding the umbili- 

 cus. Length of axis, 18"'"' ; diameter, 12"'™. 

 Helix dealbata, Say, Jouru. Phi]a. Acad., ii, 159 (1821); ed. Bix Bulimulus dealbatits. 



NEY, 20. 



BtUimvs dealbatus, Potiez & Michaud, Gal^rie, i, 139, pi. xiii, figs. 3, 4.— Piituppi, 

 Icon., i, 158, pi. ii, fig. (1844).— Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. Viv., ii, 187; Chem- 

 nitz, ed. 2,55. — Reeve, Cou. Icon., tig. 455. — Bixxey, Terr. Moil., ii, 27(5, 

 pi. Ii, fig. 1 ; pi. Ii, a, excepting upper and lower figs. ? — W. G. Binney, Terr. 

 Moll., iv, 130, pi. Ixxx, figs. 0, 7 ; L. ifc Fr.-AV. Sh., i, 208 (1869). 



Bitlimtts covfinis, Reeve, Con. Icon., 643 (1850).— Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. Viv., iii, 341. 



Bulbnus liqunhilis, Reeve, Con. Icon., 387. 



Bulimus lactarius, Mkxke, in Pfeiffer,* Mon., ii, 187. — Reeve, Con. Icon., 217. — 

 Gould, Terr. Moll., iii, 35. 



Sciitahis dealbatus, Tryox, Am. Jonrn. Conch., iii, 173 (1867). 



Bulimulus dealbatus, \V. G. Bixney, Terr Moll., v, 393. 



A species of the Interior and Southern Regions, found from Korth 

 Carolina to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas; also Heiny and Lawrence 



*Pfeifter quotes as synonyms the nnijublished name of BuJimiis GaIeo1tii,'Sj6ti. 

 1749— Bull. 28— —26 



