GLANDINA. §01 



3. GLANDINA TRUNCATA, Say. 



Plates LIX. LX. LXI. Figuee 2. 



G. testa, oblongo-ovata, licet lanceolato-ovata, solidiuscula, 

 nitida, cornea vel siepissime \f inerascente rosaceo tincta, 

 longitrorsum plicato-striata ; anfractibus ad septem convex- 

 iusculis, ultimo cylindraceo antice angustato ; sutura sub- 

 crenulata ; apertura lunata, angusta. 



STNONYMS AND KEFEBENCES. 



SuUa tntncata, GjuLiN, p. 3434. 



Buccinum striatum, Chem., IX. 36, tab. 120, f. 1028, 29? 

 BiUimua striatus, Beug., Encycl, Melh. I. 366. 

 CoclUicopa rosea, Feuus., Prodrom. 356 ; 



Hist, des Moll. pi. 135, f. 3, pi. 136, f. 6-10. 

 Achatina rosea, Desh., Encycl. Melh. II, 10; ed. Lamarck-, VIII. 313. 

 AcliMtina trujicata, D'Oee., Moll. Cub. I. 163, pi. 10, f. 13. 



Reeve, Couch. Icon. pi. 13, f. 47. 

 Polyphemus glans, Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. I. 2&2. 

 Glandina truncata, Say, Amer. Conch, pi. 20 ; 



Chend. ed. (Bib. Conch.) III. 28, pi, 7, f. 2, 2a. 



Beck, Index, p. 78. 



Pfeiffer, Monog. Helic. Viv. II. 2S6. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Animal twice tlie length of the shell, pale chestnut 

 color, with pale bluish reflections ; surface finely reti- 

 culated ; a delicate channel runs along the median line 

 of the neck, terminating between the superior tentacles, 

 on each side of which are oblique folds. 



Shell strong, ovate-fusiform or ellipsoidal, obtuse at 

 tip, of a pale, ashy fawn color, or rather, alternately 

 striped with ash color and fawn color, and more or less 

 tinted rose color, the surface shining and delicately fluted 



with longitudinal, raised, and rounded striie. Whorls sis 

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