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Spurious, Extralimital, &c. 



Bulimus acicula Miiller, and Bulimus octona Brug. have been 

 found in greenhouses and gardens, where they have been intro- 

 duced on plants. 



B. exigims Binn. is the same as Carychium exiguum. 



B. fasciatus Binn. is the same as Achatina fasciata. 



B. Gossei Pf., vid. Macroceramus pontificus. 



B. Kieneri Pf., vid. Macroceramus pontificus. 



B. hibriciis Ad. &c. is the same as Achatina lubrica. 



B. obscuriis Dr., vid. Pupa placida Say. 



B. striatus Brug. is the same as Gkndina truncata. 



B. vexillum Brug. is the same as Achatina fasciata. 



B. zebra Orb. is the same as Achatina fasciata. 



B. vermetus Anthony. Of this species 1 can give no information 

 other than that furnished by the original description given 

 below. 



Bulimus vermetus Anthony. (Cover of Haldeman's Monograph 

 No. 3, July, 1841.) Shell turrlculated, livid brown; whorls 5, striated 

 longitudinally ; suture deeply indented ; apex entire ; body whorl a 

 little more than equal to the spire ; spire 2^ times the length of the 

 aperture; lengths, width 1 J lines; aperture obliquely ovate ; length 

 of the aperture equal to the width of the body whorl. Ohio, near 

 Cincinnati. 



Distinguished by its peculiar mouth, which is curved in a regular 

 curve from right to left, contracted at the upper angle, and spreading 

 below ; the whoi'ls are also very deeply indented, and twisted as they 

 are in Succinea vermeta. 



Genus MACROCERAMUS Guildixg. 



This genus is not accepted by Pfeiffer, who places its 

 species under Bulimus. 



MACROCERAMUS PONTIFICUS Gould. . .vol. ii. p. 306, pi. Ixix. fig. 1. 



Pfeiffer refers this species to his Bulimus Kieneri^ (Mon. 

 iii. 365,) while Poey quotes it from Cuba, (Mem. i. 395,) 

 as a synonym of Bulimus Gossei Pfr. 



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