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KliATTEA CAPII.LACEA (Pfeiffer) 



Plate 16, Figure 5 



1862. Cistula? capillacea Pfeiffer, Malak. Blatter, vol. 9, p. 154. 

 1920. Parachondria (Parachondria) capillacea Henderson and Bartsch, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 66. 



Shell elongate-conic, pale brown. Peristome yellowish white. There is 

 a dark purplish-brown line marking the oblique plug in the decollated 

 portion. Nuclear whorls decollated in all our specimens. Postnuclear 

 whorls rounded and marked by retractively curved, fairly stout axial 

 riblets, of which 120 are present on the last turn in the specimen figured. 

 These riblets become expanded and fused into denticles at the summit. 

 The spiral sculpture consists of feebly developed threads on the early 

 whorls and mere indications thereof on the later turns, where they render 

 the axial riblets feebly thickened at their junction. Suture rather strongly 

 constricted, slightly channeled. Periphery of the last whorl well rounded. 

 Base short, slightly inflated, well rounded, openly umbilicated, and 

 marked only by the continuation of the axial ribs extending upon the 

 umbilical wall, which also bears eight spiral threads, which grow con- 

 secutively weaker from the outer one inward. Last whorl solute for 

 about one-sixth of a turn. Aperture broadly ovate, slightly angulated at 

 the posterior angle. Peristome simple, moderately expanded and re- 

 flected. Operculum typically klatteid. 



The specimen figured (U.S.N.M, No. 355359) was received from 

 Sowerby and Fulton with the locality label "Haiti." It has 5.3 w^horls 

 remaining and measures: Height, 14. i mm.; greater diameter, 6.7 mm.; 

 lesser diameter, 5.2 mm. The type locaHty is Cap-Haitien. 



U.S.N.M. No. 355356 contains 429 specimens collected by Henderson 

 and Simpson at Charmette. 



This species can readily be differentiated from Klattea capiUacissima 

 by its stronger and lesser number of axial ribs. 



Genus LICINA Gray 



In 1847, ill the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 

 p. 181, Gray created the genus Licina, with Turbo lahca (=labeo) as 

 genotype. He cited Browne's name Licina, 1756,^"* among its synonyms. 

 Browne's name, being pre-Linnaean, is automatically ruled out. How- 

 ever, since Browne dealt with Jamaican animals, it seems that Licina 

 was looked upon as of Jamaican origin. The figure in Browne's work 

 indicates Annularia licina (Linnaeus). All this is merely a bit of history 

 with no direct bearing upon the status of Licina, since Licina Gray is 

 typified by L/awa /a&(?o (Miiller). 



Licina laheo was described by Miiller on pages 180-181 of his "Ver- 

 mium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium" in 1774. Here he cited the pre- 



** The civil and natux-al history of Jamaica, p. 401, pi. 40, fig. 5. 



