BULIMUS, 



Plate XXVIII. 



Species 160. (Fig. 160 b. Mus. Cuming.) 

 BuLiMUS FULMiNANs. The shell here represented is 

 that in Mr. Cuming's collection, described by Dr. Pfeifl'er 

 under the name of B.Loveni, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1847, p.329. 

 It is without doubt identical with the B. fulminant de- 

 scribed at PI. XXIV., though lighter in structure and of 

 less acuminated growth. 



Species 169. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Bdlimus Milleri. Bui. testa ovato-ohlongd, spird sui- 

 obtiisd, anfractibus (luinqiie, tumidiusculis, oblique con- 

 volutis, aperturd subcontractd, labro refl^xo ; castmeo- 

 fuicd, epidermide sericed, tramverdm minute granuloso- 

 crispatd, indutd, peritremate rosea. 



Miller's Bulimus. Shell ovately oblong, spire rather 

 obtuse, whorls five in number, rather swollen, ob- 

 liquely convoluted, aperture somewhat contracted, 

 lip reflected ; chesnut-brown, covered with a silken 

 epidermis, which is transversely minutely granulously 

 crisped, peritreme rose-coloured. 



SowERBY, Conch. rUus. f. 94. 



Eab. Brazil. 



This beautifid species is mainly distinguished by its 

 exquisite silken epidermis, which exhibits two or three 

 bands towards the base, not of colour, but of light and 

 shade, as in a shot-silk. 



Species 170. (Mus. Cuming.) 



BULIMUS AURIS-MlD/E. Bul. testd obloi/ffo- rel elom/tilu- 

 ovatd, subcompressd, anfractibus sex, hrrilmx mil inw- 

 gulariter rugoso-striafm, ultimo valde iiiiijnn-, cnlnnirltii 

 callosd plicmformi, interdum duabus, muuitd, iqwrturd 

 ampld ; fulvescente-albd, epidermide olivaceo-castaned 

 indutd, aperturee fauce rufescente-croced, peritremate 

 laded. 



The Midas' ear Bulimus. Shell oblong or elongately 

 ovate, a little compressed, whorls six in nmmber, 

 smooth or iixegularly roughly striated, last whorl 

 very much the larger, columella furnished with a 

 plait-like callosity, sometimes two, aperture large ; 

 fulvous white, covered with an olive chesnut epider- 

 mis, interior of the aperture reddish chesnut, peri- 

 treme cream colour. 



Auris-Midm terrce australis, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. vol.ix. 

 p. 43. pi. 131. f. 1039, 1040. 

 Bulimus fibratus. Gray. 

 Hab. New Caledonia. 



We are informed by Chemnitz in the ninth volume of 

 the Cnnchylien Cabinet, published in 1786, that this shell 

 was known to Favanne as " a very rare Biiccitnmi from 

 New Holland bearing some resemblance to the false 

 Midas' Ear," meaning the Auricula Mida, which Bru- 

 guiere referred to his genus Bulimus under the same 

 specific title as that used by Chemnitz in reference to this. 

 We also learn from the same source that it was known to 

 English coUeetors upwards of half a century ago, as 

 'The Midas' Ear from New Caledonia.' Lamarck, 

 however, and his followers appear to have confounded 

 it with the B. auris-bovina, from which, as described at 

 PI. XXX., it is amply distinguished. 



The chief variation in the growth of the present species 

 consists in some specimens being of an elongated form as 

 represented in Chemnitz, and of which a specimen exactly 

 agreeing with that figure is before me, and in others being 

 of a compressed oblong tumid growth, as in the shell re- 

 presented in the accompanying plate. Both varieties are 

 distinguished by a plait-like callosity on the columella and 

 the rich orange-red painting of the interior, but are equally 

 distinct from the B. SJtongi or auris-bovina. 



Species 171. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Bulimus Funckii. Bul. testd elongato-oblongd, subcylin- 



draced, crassiusculd, anfrnctibus quinque ad sex, loiigi- 



twli,inIHn- in 

 nr.s/'s .s„l,tili.s 



iiihfriter nui:- .s/rii/Zis, hcrilnis 



arcuatd, labru furlUer rejh.ro ; nifu-castaiied, epider- 

 mide olivaced crassd indutd, aperturd Uvido-fuscd, 

 peritremate fumeo-aurantio. 



Funck's Bulimds. Shell elongately oblong, somewhat 

 cyUndrical, rather thick, whorls five to six in number, 

 longitudinally irregularly rudely striated, smooth, 

 very finely corrugately reticulated towards the apex ; 

 columella slightly arched, lip strongly reflected; 

 reddish chesnut, covered with a thick olive epidermis, 

 interior of the aperture livid brown, peritreme smoky 

 orange. 



Nyst, Mem. Soeiete Roy ale de Liege, vol. i. 



July, 1848. 



