1 1 4 LIMX-^ID.i:. 



lined ; spire ratlier sliort. conical, acuminated; whorls 3, small, a 

 little convex: aperture pyriForm. rounded anteriorly, columellar 

 fold strong, raised to the middle, arched. 



Alt. 24, diani. uiaj. 12-25 (flg. in Conch. Icon.). 



Hah. Siam. 



Resembling Limiuva piwinis, but marked with reddish lines. 

 {^Soicerlnj.) 



224. Limnaea (Gulnaria) sinmlaiis (Preston). 



L'unncea {Gnlnaria) siinuhnis (Preston), llec. lud. ^lus Calcutta, 

 ii, pt. 1, 1908, p. 40, fig. (as L. simulafis). 



Orir/inal description: — Shell fusiform, brownish horn colour; 

 whorls '5; sutures impressed; umbilicus narrow, partly concealed 

 by the reflexed columella ; columella arched, thick, extending into 

 a callus which reaches the lip above; peristome simple ; aperture 

 inversely auriform. 



Alt. 7-7o, diam. maj. 4-25 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 4, diam. 2 mm. 



Jiab. Pharping, Nepal. 



Section BULIMNEA. 



Bulimnea, Ilaldeman, Men. Freshwater Univ. Moll. U.S.A. 1842 

 {Limnea), p. 6. 



Type, Limnaa megasoma, 'H>ay ; jS.AV. Territory, U.S.A. ; Yer- 

 tnont, U.S.A. 



Jianf/e. N.America; Europe; Asia. 



Original description : — Shell thick in texture, inflated, lip not 

 expanded. 



.225. Limnaea (Bulimnea) truncatula (deffrci/s). 



Limnaa {BuV .inea) truncatula (Jeffreys,), Trans. Linii. Soc. xvi, 



1830, p. '» / (as Limn<sus truncatulus) \ Miiller. Verm. Hist. 



1774, pt. i, p. 130 (as Buccinum truncatulum) ; II. \: T., C. 1. 



1876, p. 16. 

 Lymnit:a truncatula, in Reeve, L. & F. "\V. Moll. L>ritisli Esles, p. 164. 



Shell : acuminately ovate, distinctly umbilicated, rather sohd, 

 yello\\ish horny, sjnre rather produced ; whorls 5 to 6, convex, 

 truncate next the sutures, roughlvand often densely striated in 

 the direction of the lines of growth ; aperture rather small, ovate, 

 columella callous, but little twisted, lip elongately expaudedly 

 reflected round the circumference of the umbilicus. (Beeve.) 



Alt. 13, diam. 7-75 mm. (spec). 



Hah. Europe ; Afglianistau ; Kashmir. 



,226, Limnaea (Bulimnea) bowelli (Preston). 



Limncca (Bulimnea) bowelli (Preston), Rec. lud. Mus. iii. pt. 2, 

 no. 3, p. 115, tigs, (as L. hotoelli). 



Original description: — Shell riinate, acuminately ovate, rather 



