GLANDINA TRUNCATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell pale rosaceous, immaculate, becoming paler to- 

 wards the aperture. 



SYNONYM. 



BucciNUM STRIATUM. Chemnitz, ix, t. 120, fig. 1028, 



1029. (Fermsac) 

 Bulla truncata. Gmelin, Dillwyn. (Feritss.) 

 Polyphemus glans. Nob. Nicholson's Encycl. 

 Helix rosea. Ferussac. 

 e FLUMiNE QUODAM c-uioLiN.t. Listtr Co7ich, 1059, 



fig. 4. 



description. 



Shell pale reddish-brown or slightly tinted with rosace- 

 ous, often deepest on the spire, gradually becoming paler 

 to the aperture : spire rather prominent, somewhat mame- 

 lary at tip : volutions five or six, very obviously wrinkled 5 

 two or three apicial volutions almost destitute of wrinkles ; 

 suture well defined, irregularly crenulated : columella de- 

 cidedly incurved. 



* OBSERVATIONS. 



When in the sea islands of Georgia and in Florida with 

 Mr. Maclure, we found this species, in great abundance 



PLATE XX. 



