200 



LAND AND FEESH-WATER SHELLS OF N. A. [PART L 



Fi^. 346. 



Bulimus californicus, Reeve, Con. Icon. 378.— Pfeiffek, Men. Hel. Viv. 



Ill, 422.— W. G. BiNNEY, Terr. Moll. IV, 21, pi. Ixxix, f. 15. 

 Thaumastiis callfurnicus, Tryo.\, Am. Jouru. Conch. Ill, 170, pi. xiii, f. 



14 (1867). 



California. , 



I have not seen this species. Fig. 345 is copied from Reeve. 



I do not agree witli Dr. Gould (Terr. Moll. II, 275) in referring 



the species to Bulimus serperastrus, Say. 



Biiliniulds patriarclia, W. G. Bix'n.— Shell perforate, ovate, 

 heavy, white, and wrinkled ; whirls six, convex, the last ventricose, 

 equalling in length live-sevenths of the shell ; aperture 

 ovate ; peristome simple, thickened within, the ex- 

 tremities joined by a heavy white callus, the colu- 

 mellar extremity slightly reliected, so as partially to 

 conceal the umbilicus. Length S.'i, diam. 19 ; aperture, 

 length 19, diam. 12 mill. 



Bulimus patriarclia, W. G. Binnet, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philad. 1858, 116 ; Terr, Moll. IV, 130, pi. 



Ixxx, f. 13.— Pfeiffek, Mai. Blat. 1859, 48. 

 Thaumastus patriarcha, Tkyon, Am. Journ. Conch. 



Ill, 171, pi. xiii, f. 15 (1867). 



Texas. Mexico, atBuenaVista. {Berlandi^re.) 

 Kamed from its greater size and more anti- 

 quated appearance, as compared with the allied species, but the 

 young individuals are as readily distinguished as the most mature 

 from any other. It is most nearly related to B. schiede.aniis, but 

 differs from that species in having a shorter, more rapidly acumi- 

 nated spire, longer and much more globose body-whirl, more 

 lengthened and narrower aperture, and rougher surface. 



Biilimiilus alternatiis, Sat. — Ovate conio, with alternate gray 

 and brownish longitudinal vittJB. Inhabits Mexico. Shell umbilicated, 

 ovate-conic, with longitudinal lines, subequal, gray and light brownish 

 vittffi ; the brown is paler, almost approaching in some instances a drab ; 

 the white vittse consist of more or less confluent, transverse, irregular lines, 

 and small spots ; whirls about six, a little convex ; suture not jtrofoundly 

 impressed ; labrum (in some specimens) with a thickened line or rib on the 



