598 PSEUDACHATINA. — ACHATINA. 



4. Ps. Gabonensis Shuttleworth. 



«T. elongato-ovato-tnrrita, solidula, grosse et remote ru- 

 goso-plicata, nitidula, 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- 

 ginata et plicatula; columella stricta, subintorta, basi oblique 

 leviter Iruncata; apertura lunari-ovalis; perist. simplcx, acutum, 

 breviter effuso-patulum, pallide carneo limbatum vel albidum, 

 marginibus callo tenui, ad basin columellae extus incrassato, 

 junctis. — Long. 86, diam. 36 mill. Ap. 33 mill. longa, 

 20 lata.» (Sh.) 



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



f. 1—2. 



Pseudachatina Gabonensis Shuttl. l^out. malac. I. p. 86. 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. 7^2, primi 37^ laevigati, carnei, con- 

 vexi, sequentes sensim planulati, ultimus Vg longitudinis vix 

 aequans, infra medium castaneus , basi compressus; columcUa 

 compressa, leviter torta, obiique subtruncata, alba; apertura 

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

 culum, aibum, marginibus callo crasso albo junctis, dextro 

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

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

 Pseudachatina grandinata Pfr. in Malak. Bl. III. 1856. p. 257. 

 Habitat Gabon Africae occidentalis (Walker). 



XVn, Achatina Lamarck emend. 



De generis Lamarckiani characteribus conferantur Pfr. Mon. 

 Helic. L p. XXI; III. p. 478; Binney Terr. Moll. IL p. 291 ; 

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

 p. 289, — Ci. Dupuy (Moll. de France p. 324) species ovovivi- 

 paras, testae apertura constanter piriformi-elongala nomine Zuae 

 Leach separat, cui characteres sequentes assignat; «Testa ovata 

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

 tula, ovato-pyriformi vel pyriformi angustata; peristomate simplice 

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

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



