94 helicidjE. 



An inhabitant of the South of Europe and Asiatic and African 

 shores of the Mediterranean ; introduced into our Fauna by Dr. 

 Turton from the species having bred in a hot-house in South Devon, 

 into which no foreign inoidd was known to have been admitted ; the 

 colony is now extinct. 



B. pupa, Linneeus. 



Helix pupa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1248. 



BuUmus tuber adatus, Turt. Zool. Journ. vol. ii. p. 363, pi. 13, f. 4; Manual L. 

 and F. W. Shells, p. 81, 142, f. 64. 

 „ pupa, L. Pfeif. Monog. Helic. vol. ii. p. 128 (with synonyms). 



A native of Sicily, Greece, Algiers, <Lx. ; introduced by Dr. 

 Turton as from Worcestershire. 



B. Guildingii, Pfeiffer. 



Bulimus articulates (not of Lamarck), Turt. Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 85, 



f. 68. 

 Bulinus signatus (not of Wagner in Spix), Sowerby (as of Guilding), Conch. 



Illust. Bulim. f. 57. 

 Bulimus Guildingii, L. P feif. Syrnbolae, pt. 2, p. 115. — Reeve, Conch. Icon. 

 vol. v. Bui. pi. 64, f. 445. 



A West Indian shell, asseHed by Turton to have been taken in 

 the vicinity of Penzance, in Cornwall. Mr. J . E. Gray, in his 

 " Introduction " to Turton's Manual, considers it to form but one 

 species with the formosus and cylindrus (which last name has 

 priority ) ; in the recent Monograph of the genus, by Reeve, how- 

 ever, the three shells are figured as distinct. 



B. ventricosus, Drapamaud. 



Bulimus ventricosus (not Bulla ventricosa, Chemn.), Draparn. Moll. Ter. ct 

 Fluv. France, p. 78, pi. 4, f. 31, 32. — Turt. Manual L. 

 and F. W. Shells, p. 86, f. 69. — Gray, Manual L. and 

 F. W. Shells, p. 12, f. 69 (as spurious). 

 „ ventorsus, L. Pfeif. Monog. Helic. vol. ii. p. 215 (with synonyms). 



A native of the South of France, dx.; introduced into our Fauna 

 by Turton, ivho evidently mistook a variety of acutus for it as 

 Cornish. His figure appears to be copied from Drapamaud. 



