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Biiliiiiiilus mulliliueatus. Say. 



Shell subperforate, tliiii and strong, elongated, ovate-acuminate, 

 Fin. 443. smooth and shining, of a bright yellowish -white color, varie- 

 gated with longitudinal stripes and spiral zones of dark chest- 

 te^ nut, of various widths, none of which are constant exce^it a 

 snbsutural line continued to the aj)ex, which is also black; 

 ^"''J whorls about 7, a little convex; suture delicate; aperture 

 rounded-ovate, a little more than one-third the length of the 

 ^"luicatui shell; peristome acute ; columella straight, widening upwards, 

 and protecting a minute umbilical opening. Length, 25"'™ ; diameter, 

 10™'". 



Bulimus 7n'tiliilhiraiu8, Say, Joiirn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Plii]a., v, 120 (1F25) ; ed. Einney 



'28.— Pe Kay, N.Y.Moll., 5(i (1843).— W. G. Bixney, Terr. Moll., iv, 13ti ; L. 



& Fr.-W. Sh., i, 197 (18(59).— Pfeiffeu, Mou. Hel. Viv., ii, 204. 

 Bulimus Alviilci, Gkixki:, VYiegm. Archlv., 1841, i, 277, pi. xi, fig. 2.— Pfeiffer, Mon. 



Hel. Yiv., ii, 176. 

 Bulhnu/i rciwsus, Reeve, Con. Icon., pi. xlv, fig. 285 (I848). 

 Bulimus rir(/ul<itu>i, Bixney, not Fekussac, Terr. Moll., ii, 278, pl. Iviii. — Leidy, T. M. 



U. S., i, 259, pl.xv, figs. 7, 8 (1851), anat.— Pfeiffer, 1. c, iv. 

 ile-'emhiiiius mulHU'nea'us, Tryon, Am. Jouru. Conch., iii, 1(59 (18{)7). 

 BuJimuhiH mulliliueatus, W. G. BiNXEY, T. M., v, 398. 



Maco, west coast of Florida, about 40 miles south of Charlotte Har- 

 bor (Hemphill) ; also Key West and Lower Matacumba Key, in the 

 Florida Subregion ; St. Martha, INfagdalena, and Bambo Bay, New 

 Granada; IMaracaibo and Porto Cabello, Venezuela (cabinet of Mr. 

 Swift). It evidently belongs to the fauna of New Granada, and it is 

 difficult to account for its presence in the Florida Subregion. (See p. 

 37.) 



The species secretes a thin, transparent epiphragm. 



There is considerable confusion regarding the synonymy of this 

 shell. An immature specimen from Florida was first described by Mr. 

 Say as BuJimns ounJtiUncaius. It was not ggain met with until Dr. 

 Biuney received specimens from his collector in Florida. From these 

 shells it was described and figured in the Terrestrial Mollusks. Its 

 identity with j\Ir. Say's species was there recognized, but as 7>. multi- 

 lineatiis was considered a synonyme of the West Indian Bidimusvirgu- 

 latus* our shell was placed under that name. In the fourth volume of 

 the Terrestrial Mollusks I restored to the species the original name of 

 multilineatus. Among European authors the name is mentioned only 



* B, rirgulatus is now recognized as a synonyme of B. elongatm, Bolt, 



