CUBAN SUBFA:MILY CHONDROPOMINAE TORRE AND BARTSCH 335 



the base. Sole of foot pale ashy, deeply medially cleft; motion of 

 two sides alternate. 



Chondropoma {Chondropoma) pictum arangoi 



Stone fence between Medoze and Sitio Bonilla, July 28, 1928. 



Animal short, flesh-color, with a pinkish flush behind the forehead, 

 which is marked by numerous fine white dots. Sides and sole of foot 

 with a slight smoky suffusion. Tentacles ochraceous, sometimes pale 

 orange. 



Chondropoma {Chondropoma) j^ictmn anafense 



Sierra Anafe, July 27, 1928. 



Animal short. Forehead and median dorsal parts marbled with 

 conspicuous dots and streaks of brown, less concentrated about the 

 base of the tentacles where the ground color is best shown. Edge of 

 snout a little paler than the adjoining parts. Tentacles orange with 

 the median dorsal part purplish brown. Sides of body, back to 

 tentacles, smoke gray ; the rest behind this flesh-color v/ith a pinkish 

 flush. Sole of foot pale gray with an olivaceous tinge. 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF CHONDROPOMA (CHONDROPOMA) PICTUM 



Shell very large and tbin ; average length 23.2 mm celsum 



Shell less large; average length less than 21 mm and nK re than 

 16 mm. 



Outer peristome flaringly expanded anteriorly arangoi 



Outer peristome not flaringly expanded anteriorly. 



Shell chestnut-brown or orange, rarely paler, goiildianum 



Shell not chestnut-brown or orange. 



Shell buft" with interrupted spiral bands of brown mahogani 



Shell flesh-color with interrupted spiral bands of 



brown mochense 



Shell small. 



Shell conspicuously spirally banded. 



Ground color varying from buff to chestnut-brown__, yumeriense 



Ground color not varying from buff to chestnut-brown. 

 Ground color flesh-color. 



Spiral threads strong pictum 



Spiral threads feeble. 



Average length more than IS mm anafense 



Average length less than 13 mm . sagra 



Shell not conspicuously spirally banded varaderense 



CHONDROPOMA (CHONDROPOMA) PICTUM VARADERENSE, new subspecies 



Plate 29, Figure 8 



This, the easternmost race, comes from Varadero, of the Hicaco 

 Peninsula. It is a small race, of very pale flesh-color with scarcely 

 any indications of .spiral color marking. The peristome is almost as 



