59S PSEUDACIIATINA. — ACHATINA. 



4. Ps. Gabonensis Shuttleworth. 



«T. elongato-ovato-lurrita, solidula, ijrosse ct retnote ru- 

 goso-plicala, nilidula, pallide carnea vel rosea, strigis latis 

 purpureo-roseis picta, basi pallide castanea vel purpurea; spira 

 elata, apice fusca, obtusa; anfr. 8 convexi, ultimus % longitu- 

 dinis subaequans, obsolete angulatus; sutura linearis, late mar- 

 ginala et plicatula; columella stricta, subintorta, basi oblique 

 leviter truncata; apertura lunari-ovalis; perist. simplex, acutum, 

 breviter effuso-patulum , pallide carneo limbatum vel albidum, 

 marginibus callo tenui, ad basin columellae extus incrassato, 

 junctis. — I.ong. 86, diam. 36 mill. Ap. 33 mill. longa, 

 20 lala.» (Sh.) 



Achatina Downesii Desh. in Fer. Hlst. II. p. 190. n. 57. t. 122. 



f. 1—2. 



Pscudachatina Gabonensis Shuttl.^^otk. malac. I. p. 8 6. t. 8. f. 5. 6. 



Habitat Gabon (Verreaux). 



.5. Ps. grandinata Pfr. 



T. oblongo-turrita, solidula, conferte et irregulariter grosse 

 granulata, alba; spira elongata, apice obtusa, fusca; sutura levis, 

 parum impressa; anfr. Ty^, primi 37^ laevigati, carnei, con- 

 vexi, se.juentes sensim planulati, ultimus Vg iongitudinis vix 

 aequans, infra medium castaneus , basi compressus; columella 

 compressa, leviter torta, oblique subtruncata, alba; apertura 

 obliqua, rotundato-ovalis; perist. vix incrassatum, expansius- 

 culum, albuin, marginibus callo crasso albo junctis, dextro 

 perarcuato, basali subproducto. — Long. 79, diam. 30 mill. 

 Ap. c. perist. 31 mill. longa , intus medio 17 lata. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 Pseudachatina grandinuta Pfr. 'n\ Malok. Bl. III. 1856. p. 2 57. 

 Habitat Gabon Africae occidentnlis (Walker). 



XVIL Achatina Lamarck emend. 



De generis Lamarckiani characteiibus conforantur Pfr. Mon. 

 Helic. L p. XXI; ni. p. 478; Binncy Terr. Moll. IL p. 291; 

 Philippi liandb. p. 248 et Pfeiffer in Chemn. ed. nov. I. 13. 

 p. 289. — Cl. Dupuy (Moll. de France p. 324) S[)ecies ovovivi- 

 paras, testae apertura constanter piriformi-elongata nomine Zuae 

 Leach separat, cui characteres sequentes assignat: «Testa ovata 

 vel ovato-elongala, subcylindracea , imperforata; apertura eden- 

 tula, ovato-pyriformi vel pyriformi angustata; peristomate simplice 

 vel vix incrassato, marginibus callo inter se junctis; testa semper 

 polilissima.» — Cl. Shuttleworth (Diagn. n. Moll. Nr. 6. p. 138) 



