GASTEROPODA. 15 
posteriorly ; lip simple, the columella rather broadly reflexed, short, 
white, and protecting a small umbilical perforation. 
Length of axis one and three-fourths of an inch; breadth one inch. 
Found by Mr. Couthouy, near Santiago, Chili. 
A shell remarkable for its regular, elongated, ovoid form, and its four 
bands of rusty-brown blotches. It is somewhat like B. Favannat, 
only more narrowed anteriorly. 
Figures 79, 79 a, two views of the shell. 
Bu.imus ciLiaTus (Gould). 
Testa tenuis, ovato-conica, viridis, stris volventibus cilas rigidas nunc 
longas nunc breviores gerentibus, cincta: spira acuta, anfractibus sex 
convexis, ultimo magno, ventricoso, sub-angulato : apertura sub-ovata, 
antice angustata; labro simplict ; columella recta, albd, umbiicum 
parvum obtegente. 
Bulimus ciliatus, Goutp; Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 11. 191. 
Dec. 1846. Expedition Shells, 32. Preirrer; Monog. Helic. Viv., 
W074, 
AnimaL very dark slate-colour, almost black, oculiferous tentacles 
long and slender, and, like the neck, finely granulate; body obliquely 
wrinkled; foot and mouth paler; respiratory orifice very large. 
SHELL thin and fragile, ovate-conic, acute at summit, covered with 
minute, crowded, longitudinal and revolving striz. On the revolving 
strie are seated series of dark, stiff, tapering, slightly recurved hairs, 
of unequal length; there are about eight series of the long ones on 
the penult whorl, and about twenty on the last whorl, between two of 
which are either two or three series of shorter and finer ones, the 
whole resembling coarse velvet. Whorls six, convex, the last one 
large, ventricose, and subcarinate. Suture profound. Aperture sub- 
ovate, slightly angular at base ; lip simple, acute; columella straight, 
white, reflected over a small, deep perforation. [. Pp. c.] 
