116 BULIMUS 8. 39. 
pressa, subsericea, intense fusca vel pallide striata. Spira 
regularis; summo obtusulo, denudato; sutura irregulariter cre- 
nata et plicato-striata, submarginata, alba.  Anfr. 6; primi 
nucleolares, elegantissime punctulati; sequentes convexiusculi, 
ultimus major, paulo ascendens, ovatus, subtus circum perfo- 
rationem compressiusculus. Apert. verticalis, spiram subaequans, 
ovato-auriformis, pallide aurantiaca vel livide albido-fuscescens. 
Perist. luteo-albidum, subexpansum, incrassatum, intus labiatum; 
marginibus remotis, callo unidentato junctis; supero ad inser- 
tionem vix protracto, leviter sinuato, in medie arcuatim paulo 
protracto; columellari intus callo tuberculoso, elongato, oblique 
incrassato, extus late reflexo, perforationem tegente. — Alt. 51, 
diam. 26!/, mill» (M. — Coll. Nr. 379.) 
8. Lifouana, minor, sub epidermide fusca, fere omnino 
decidua, sordide alba, non nitens; long. 46!/;, diam. maj. 26 mill. 
(Crosse in Journ. Conch. XVII. 1869. p. 180.) 
y. Alba, epidermide destituta; apertura intus lactea, uni- 
color; peristoma lacteum; plica columellae dentiformis; plica 
parietalis parvula, vix conspicua; long. 48, diam. maj. 23!/5; 
apert. c. perist. 24 mill. longa, 14 lata. (Crosse ibid. XXII. 
4875. p. 109. 484; XXIII. 1875. p. 218. t. 4.) - 
Bulimus Ouveanus « Doízauer» Mouss. in Journ. Conch. XVII. 
1869. p. 60. t. &. f. &. 4a. 
Habitat in insula Ouvea Archipelagi «Loyalty» (Dotzauer), var. 8 
ins. Lifou et var. Y in loco «Siandé» dicto Novae Ca- 
ledoniae (E. Marie). 
Obs. Nonne varietatibus minoribus Z2. fibrati Mart. adscribendus? 
Cl. Mousson speciem B. Edwardsiano Gass. proxime affinem declarat. 
833. B. Annibal Souverbie. j 
«Testa imperforata vel subrimata, ovato-conica, subcom- 
pressa, mediocriter ponderosa, longitrorsum rugoso-striata vel 
rugoso-plicatula, pallide carneola, epidermide plus minusve sa- 
turate subfulvo-castanea suboblique saturatius strigata et inter- 
dum sed rarissime lineolis subnigricantibus spiraliter cingulata 
induta; spira subconvexo-conica, apice subacuto, nudo, sub- 
rubello; sutura impressa, striato-crenulata, nonnunquam epider- 
mide destituta; anfr. 7 convexiusculi, longitudinaliter (praeser- 
tim infra suturam anfr. ultimi) striato-plicati, antepenultimus 
et penultimus suboblique striato-malleati, ultimus subascendens, 
dimidiam longitudinem superans, spiraliter plus minusve con- 
spicue submalleato-striatus, medio subinflatus, antice attenuatus; 
apertura fere verticalis, irregularis, subtrieonaliter ovato-oblonga, 
- jntus praecipue prope labrum subpurpureo-aurantiaca, fauce 
