ItULIMUS— Plate LXIII. 



Species 436. (Mus. Cuming.) 



BuLiMUS Kraussi. Bid. testa ovato-veniricosa, anfrac- 

 tibits septem, undiqiK piilcherrime minute gramdatis, 

 longitudhmliter pUcato-striatk, cohimelld stride refiexd, 

 labro suiincrassato, non refiexo ; albidd, riifo-fusco 

 apicem versus conspicue flammatd, et supra suturas 

 pecuUariter arliculatd, columelld lahrique limbo interno 

 intense castaneo-purpureis. 



Kkauss's Bulimus. Shell ovately ventricose, whorls 

 seven in number, very beautifully minutely granulated 

 throughout, longitudinally plicately striated, colu- 

 mella closely reflected, lip rather thickened, not 

 reflected ; whitish, conspicuously flamed with reddish 

 brown towards the apex, and peculiarly articidated 

 above the sutui-es with the same coloiu-, colimiella 

 and inner edge of the lip deep chesnut-pm-ple. 



Pfeiffee, Symbolfe, vol. iii. p. 85. Krauss, Die Suda- 

 frikanischen Mollusken, p. 78. pi. 5. f. 4. 



Hab. Natal, South Africa (in the woods) ; Krauss. 



This magnificent species, fi'om a locality which has 

 contributed little of particidar interest to this genus, par- 

 takes very much of the form of B. oblongus and its 

 congeners from South Eastern America. In colouring 

 it is characterized by a singidar articulated band around 

 the sutures, and the lip and columella are coated with an 

 enamel of deep chesnut-purple. In scidptui'e the entii-c 

 surface of the shell is beautifully minutely granulated, 

 besides being plicately striated, a character to which it is 

 proper to direct attention from the diiiiculty of representing 

 it in a figiu'e. 



The discovery of this fine species by Dr. Krauss in the 

 woods of South Africa, gives us some idea of the 

 richly painted snails and other animal forms that may be 

 dwelling at this moment in the vast unexplored regions 

 of that immense continent so fatal to European health and 

 enterprise. 



Species 437. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 Bulimus pubescens. Bui. testa oblongo-ovatd, umbili- 

 catd, anfractibiis sex ad septem, subrotundatis, sub lenle 

 iiiinutissime reiiculalis, columelld mdpUcatd, rejkxd. 



lubro rejiexo ; pellucido-corned, epidermide tenui pubes- 

 cente indutd, columelld labroque albidis. 



The pubescent Bulimus. Shell oblong-ovate, mnbiU- 

 cated, whorls six to seven in number, somewhat 

 rounded, veiy minutely reticidated beneath the lens, 

 columella one-plaited, reflected, lip reflected ; trans- 

 parent horny, covered with a thin pubescent epidermis, 

 lip and columella whitish. 



Moricakd, Mem. 3rd Supp. p. fi3. pi. 5. f. 21-33. 



Hab. Bahia, Brazil. 



Distinguished by its minutely reticulated surface, and 



pubescent epidermis. 



Species 438. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 Bulimus fraterculus. Bui. testa subacuminato-ovatd, 

 umbilicatd, tenuiculd, anfractibus sex, oblique tenuis- 

 sime plicaio-striatis, striis impressis spiralibus paralklis 

 reiaotis decussatis, columelld refiexd, labro simplici ; 

 pellucido-corned. 

 The allied Bulimus. Shell somewhat acuminately 

 ovate, umbiHcated, rather thin, whorls sis in number, 

 obliquely very finely plicately striated, decussated 

 with remote parallel spiral impressed strife, columella 

 reflected, lip simple ; transparent horny. 

 Potiez and Michaud, Gal. de Douai, p. 141. pi. 13. f. 7, 8. 



CocJdogena fraterculus, Ferussac. 

 Hub. Guadaloupe. 



The remote spiral stria; which characterize this shell, 

 are totally ditt'erent in appearance from those which tra- 

 verse it obliquely. 



Species 439. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Bulimus Orbignii. Bui. testa aciiminato-oblongd, umbi- 

 licatd, anfractibus septem, concentrice creberrinw tenui- 

 liratis, columelld subreflexd, labro simplici ; alba. 



Orbigny's Bulimus. Shell acuminately oblong, whorls 

 seven in number, concentrically very closely finely 

 ridged, columella slightly reflected, lip simple ; white. 



Pfeiffer, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1846, p. 31. 



Hab. Lima. 



Veiy like the B. scalariformis in general aspect, but 



sutficiently distinct on comparison. 



