B U L I M U S. 



Plate LXXXIX. 



Sp. 367. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 BuLiMUs INTERSTINCTUS. Having been favoured 

 with finer specimens of this very interesting species, col- 

 lected by Dr. Perkins at Cape Palmas, West Africa, I avail 

 myself of the opportunity of figuring two characteristic 

 varieties. 



Species 661. (Mus. Cuming.) 



BuLiMLS Kellettii. Bui. testa ovatd, subventricosd, 

 attfractibus qidiique, C07ivexis, rugoso-striatis, ad suturas 

 nubplicato-cremdatis, anfractu ultimo multo maximo, 

 columella mcrassatd, pecuUariter contorld, aperturd 

 subej'usd, labro incrassato, rejlexo ; carulescente-grised 

 saturate quadrifasciatd, strigis angustis alhis inter- 

 ruptvi et undatis longitudinaliter fulguratd, columelld 

 et apertura fauce iridescerde-purpureis. 



Kellett's Bulimus. Shell ovate, rather ventricose, 

 whorls five in number, convex, roughly striated, 

 somewhat plicately crenulated at the sutures, last 

 whorl much the largest, columella thickened, pecu- 

 liarly twisted, aperture rather efl:used, lip thickened, 

 reflected ; bluish-grey, encircled with four bands of a 

 darker colour, and longitudinally lightning-marked 

 with narrow waved and interrupted white streaks. 



Hab. Ecuador? 



1 have much pleasure in naming this new and very 



beautiful species after the zealous naturalist, Capt. Kellett, 



of H. M. S. Herald, by whom it was procured in Central 



America, and is probably from Ecuador. 



Species 212. (Mus. Miers.) 

 Bulimus ovatus. An interesting white-lip dwarf 

 variety, from Bahia, described by M. Sowerby in his ' Con- 

 chological Illustrations ' under the name B. auritus. 



Species 662. (Fig. a and b. Mus. Cuming.) 



BuLIJlus TOREIDUS. Bul. testd oblongo-tumidd, upice 

 subpapillari, anfractibits septeftn, convexis, oblique ele- 

 vato-striatk, ad sufuras subtiliter et creberrime cre- 

 nulatis, columelld simpUci, aperturd ovatd, labro 

 partim reflexo ; vstulato-fuscd, epidermide olmaced 

 indutd, apertura fauce inlense fused. 



The torrid Bulimus. Shell oblong-tumid, somewhat 

 papQlary at the apex, whorls seven in number, convex, 

 obliquely elevately striated, finely and very closely 

 crenulated at the sutures, cohunella simple, aperture 

 ovate, lip but little reflected ; scorched-brown, covered 

 with an olive epidermis, interior of the aperture dark 

 brown. 



Gould, MSS. 



Hab. Liberia, West Afiica. 



The African species received from Dr. Gould, of ! 

 United States, just at the close of this monograph, will 

 probably be described, if not so akeady, in the Proceedings 

 of the Natm-al History Society of that city. They are 

 of an extremely interesting character, and were collected 

 by Dr. George A. Perkins, a zealous American missionary, 

 for many years resident at Cape Palmas. 



February, 1S.50. 



