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Description of a new Petraeus from Palestiue. 



By 

 H. B. Pres ton, F. Z. S. 



The specimens from which the present species is des- 

 cribed were handed to me by Mr. J. H. Sikes upon bis 

 return from a recent jorn-ney in Palestine, and I have much 

 pleasure in associating bis name witb it. 



P e t r a e u s s i k e s i n. sp. 



Shell narrowly perforate, cylindrical, glossy^ creamy 

 white; protoconch flattened abovc; whorls 5 — 6, slightly 

 convex, marked witb irregulär lines of growtb, suture im- 

 pressed; columella descending obliquely and extending witb 

 a faint callosity which reacbes the lip above; peristome 

 tbickened andreflexed; aperture broad, inversely auriform. 



Alt. 21, diam. max. 9,75, alt. apert. 9, diam. 4,75 mm. 



Hab. near Jericho. 



The nearest ally to the above appears to be P. alepi 

 Fer., from which it chiefly differs in being of greaier diameter 

 in Proportion to its height, the spire is also much biunter, 

 the aperture more elongate^ the columella slightly more 

 oblique and it has one whorl less. 



Der Koiichylienbestaud der Kiese im Liegenden der 

 Travertine von Weimar. 



Von 

 Ewald Wüst in Halle a. S. 



hl diesem Nachrichtsblatte, Jahrg. 26, S. 145 — 163 

 und 185—190 und Jahrg. 28, 1896, S. 99-102 hat Arthur 



