36 PERSICULA. 



M. DACTYLUS, Lam. PL 10, fig. 1. 



Pale fawn-color, without and in the iuterioi*. 



Length, 1-1 inches. 



Hong-Kong, China; Hinds. 



Is more cylindrical than M. blanda, and has five columellar 



plaits. 



M. ELLiPTiCA, Redfield. PI. 10, fig, 8. 



W|;iite, or very faintlj^ yellowish banded. Length, 9*5 mill. 



Ins. Fanning, Polynesia. 

 Described by Mr. Pease as M. elongata, a name preoccupied by 

 Bellardi for a fossil species. 



Section Pers cula, Schumajhcr. 



Shell bulliform, spire depressed or sunken ; usually banded 

 or spotted ; aperture long, the outer lip generally denticulated 

 within, with a posterior channel, inner lip with a callosity 

 posteriorly, four plaits anteriorly, with smaller ones behind 

 them, becoming obsolete. 



M. CORNEA, Lam. PI. 10, fig. 9. 



Fulvous flesh-color, obsoletely darker banded, lip and callus 



lighter. Length, '8-1 inch. 



West Africa. 



M. PERSICULA, Linn. PI. 10, fig. 10. 



Fulvous white, copiously spotted with orange-red or chestnut. 



Length, •75-'9 inch. 



Senegambia, Cape Verd Is. 



M. CINGULATA, Dillw. PI. 10, tig. 11. 



Fulvous white, with conspicuous zig-zag chestnut revolving 



lines. Length, •7-'9 inch. 



W. Africa, Canaries, Cape Verd Is. 

 In some specimens before me the revolving lines have broken 

 up into spots ; so that, distant as the two patterns of painting 

 normall}^ appear, this and the preceding may prove to be 

 varieties of a single species. 



M. MULTILINE AT A, Sowb. PI. 10, fig. 12. 



Yellowish, with close-set chestnut revolving lines. 



Length, -5 inch. 



Belize, Honduras, 



