78 MOLLUSCA. 
Compared with B. gontostoma, it is less elongated, more solid, 
smooth, and polished, without wrinkles or rows of granules. The 
whorls are more convex. The aperture has a more vivid colour. The 
lip is more widely reflected. ‘The ground colour is darker, and min- 
gled in about equal proportions with oblique blotches of ochre yellow. 
There are distant microscopic revolving lines, with now and then one 
of them crenulated. It has the size, form, and marking of B. mults- 
color, with the aperture of B. goniostoma. 
It appears that this shell was described previous to the publication 
of my description; but as this fact was not ascertained till after the 
figure was engraved, I have retained it. 
Figures 86, 86 a, two views of the shell. 
BuLimus Auris LEPoRIS (Bruc.), Encyc, Meth. 1. 346. Bulimus 
lagotis, Menke; Synop. 2d ed. 26. Awuricula leporis, Lam.; 2d ed. 
vili. 325. Helix auris leporis, Ferus.; Prodr. 438. Pupa auris leporis, 
Gray; Ann. of Philos., N.S. ix. 412. Stenostoma auritura, Sprx ; 
Test. Brasil. 18, tab. 13, f. 1, 2. Otostomus lagotis, Beck ; Index, 55. 
Anima. elongated, lanceolate, somewhat dilated at the posterior 
third, and tapering thence to an acute point. ‘Tentacles all long and 
slender. Colour slaty-brown, darker on the centre and sides of the 
neck: tentacles minutely granular, pale ferruginous. Surface very 
minutely reticulated, with a very delicate, submarginal furrow. 
Found on orange and myrtle trees abundantly, near Rio Janeiro. 
Figure 75, side view of the animal, with the shell. 
Butimus proteus (BroperiP), Proceed. Zool. Soc., 1832, 107. Buh- 
mus sordidus, Lam.; An. sans Vert. vill. 267; (nec Lesson) Buliminus 
proteus, Beck; Index, 69. 
ANIMAL broad lanceolate, of a slaty-drab colour ; surface with longi- 
