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ery. Suture well constricted. Periphery inflated, strongly rounded. 

 Base short, openly umbiUcated, well rounded, and marked by spiral 

 cords lilve the spire but here the axial sculpture becomes intensified and 

 forms slight fenestrations between the spiral cords. The umbilical wall 

 is marked by slender axial riblets and by feebly expressed spiral 

 thi'eads. The last whorl is slightly solute. Aperture broadly oval; 

 peristome simple, the lip slightly reflected. Operculum typically 

 bermudezid. The lamella is marked by fine, retractively curved, 

 incremental lines. 



The type, U.S.N. M. No. 493492, was collected by Bermudez at 

 Loma Murcielagos, Vega Alta, Santa Clara Province. It has 5.8 

 whorls and measures: Length, 15.2 mm.; greater diameter, 11.6 mm.; 

 lesser diameter, 9.6 mm. 



This species ranges through the lomas of the region about Vega 

 Alta. In addition to the type locality we have it from Lomas Sinaloa, 

 Vereda del Abra and El Mamey, Fincas El Mirador and San Miguel, 

 Loma del Infierno, Cueva Galana, and Loma Sola. 



Bartsch describes the animals of this species, collected by him at 

 Loma Vereda del Abra on August 13, 1928, as having the dorsal part 

 pale smoky gray, marked with many papillae, which are covered by 

 numerous white dots. There is a pinkish area behind the tentacles 

 on the dorsum. Tentacles flesh colored tipped with pale orange. 

 Sides smoky with a pale olivaceous tinge, which is also the color of 

 the deeply cleft sole of the foot. The shell is carried free, and the 

 motion is direct. 



ANNULARIA (BERMUDEZIA) PAYROLI, new species 



Plate 46, Figure 3 



Shell of turbinate outline, of pale yellowish ground color with 

 interrupted spiral bands of brown. The dots composing these bands 

 may be in axial series or they may be diversely scattered. The 

 nuclear whorls are darker than the rest of the shell and they show the 

 dark sutural line, the first postnuclear whorl being the darkest of 

 all. There is a moderately broad band of brown slightly within the 

 umbilicus. Nuclear whorls 1.5, small, inflated, well rounded, micro- 

 scopically granulose. Postnuclear whorls inflated and marked by 

 weak axial riblets, which are rather closely spaced, and by strong 

 spiral cords. Of the latter, 4 are present on the first, 8 on the second, 

 while on the third slender intercalated cords make their appearance, 

 the combination totaling 16. On the last whorl 25 cords are present 

 between summit and suture. Base short, inflated, strongly rounded, 

 openly umbilicated, marked by 13 spiral cords which are of the same 

 strength and spacing as those on the spire. Here, as well as on the 

 spire of the last turn, the axial riblets, in combination with the spiral 



