teASTER^ t>ROVINCE SOUTHERN REGION SPECIES. 43^ 



Biiccinum fnsciatuw , Mi'hLEK, Venn., ii, 145 (1774). 



Bulla fasciata, Chemnitz, Conch., ix, tub. cvii, figs. 1004-1006. 



Bulimus vexillxm, Brugui^ires, Encycl. M^th., No. 107. 



Helix vexillum, Fi;RUSSAC, Hist., pi. cxxi. 



Achaiina vexillum, Lamarck, An. a. Vert., ed. 2, viii, 298. — Not of De Kay. 



Achatina crenata, Swaixson, Illiist., pi. Iviii. 



A chatina pallida, Swaixson, 111., i>l. xli. 



Achatina fascial a, SwAixsox, 111., pi. <lxii.— Reeve, Conch. Syst., ii, fig. 12.— D'Or- 



BlGXY, Moll. Cnb., i. 172, pi. vi, tigs. 1-7. — Pfeiffer, Mou.Hel. Viv.,ii, 245. — 



W. G. BixxEY, Ten-. Moll., iv, 138; L. & Fr.-W. Sh., i, 213 (1869). 

 Achatina solida, Say, Jouni. Phil. Acad., v, 122 (182.'i); ed. Binxey, 20.— De Kay, N. 



Y. Moll., 5(5 (1843).— Pfeiffer, Mou. Hel. Viv., ii, 24(5. 

 Agatina variegata, RafinesqUE, Emuu. ai d Ace, 3 (1831) ; ed. BiXNEY and Tkyon, 68. 

 Bulimus fasciatus, Binney, Terr. Moll. , ii, 266, pLs. Iv, Ivi, Ivii.— Leidy, T M. U. S., i, 



252, pi. V (1851), anat. 

 Liguus fasciata, Tryon, Am. Jonrn. Conch., iii, 165 (1867).— W. G. BiNNEY, Terr. 



Moll., V, 403 (fasoiatub). 

 Liguus picta, Tryon, I.e., 165, 4 (1867). 

 Lister, Icon., 1. c, tab, xii, fig. 7.— Gault., 1. c, tab. vi, figs, C, D.— D'Argbnville, 



1. c, pi. xi, fig. M. 



Miami Eiver, southern part of Florida, and islands and keys adjacent 

 to the coast; Key West to Key Biscayne. Recently (1884) it has been 

 found by Mr. Henry Hemphill as far north on the west coast as Good- 

 land Point, about 40 miles south of Charlotte Harbor. Probably 

 introduced from Cuba. 



Animal dark-brown or chocolate color over the whole body; surface 

 very prominently granulated ; eye-peduncles very long when extended, 

 thick at their base, ocular points black and small; tentacles long, con- 

 ical, rounded at the extremities; collar lead-color; extremity of foot 

 usually rounded ; when in motion the whole foot glides smoothly for- 

 ward, without any perceptible alternate motion of the margins ; no dis- 

 tinct locomotive disk. 



This species inhabits trees, upon the branches of which it is found. 

 In winter it hibernates by attaching its aperture very strongly to the 

 bark of the tree by means of a tliick, viscid, oi)aque secretion, which 

 hardens to the consistency of glue. In tearing it away, the bark or 

 the shell is fractured sooner than this secretion. At other times, when 

 the animal withdraws into the shell, it secretes only a thin, transparent 

 epiphragm. 



This is one of the species evidently due to the geographical proximity 

 of their locality to the island of Cuba. It occupies only the extreme 

 end of the peninsula and tlie nearest islands, whose shores are washed 

 by the Gulf Stream, which has already swept by the northern coast of 

 Cuba. Man.v of the varieties of coloring and marking common to Cu- 

 1749— Bull. 28 28 



