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ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF LAND-SHELLS FROM CENTRAL 



AFRICA. 



By Edoar a. Smith, F.Z.S., etc. 



Read July I2th, 1895. 



In 1894 Mr. G. r. Scott Elliot made important botanical collections 

 in the neighbourhood of the Albert Edward Nyanza. He also 

 collected a number of zoological specimens, of which the shells here 

 enumerated form part. Many of the specimens he obtained were from 



Fig. 1. Limicolaria saturnta, n.sp. 



,, 2. ventricosa, n.sp. 



,, 3. Achatina Ellioti, 'n.fi^. 



considerable altitudes upon Mount Ruwenzori, situated to the north of 

 the lake, and it is possible that some of the shells were collected there. 

 "With one exception, they belong to genera already containing allied 

 species. The Achatma Mlioti, however, is remarkably distinct from 

 the other forms of the genus, both as regards shape and colour. 



1. BiTRTOA NiLOTicA. (Pfeiffer). 

 Bulimus niloficus, Pfeiffer.— Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 24. 

 Limicolaria nilotica, Pfr. — Novitates, vol. iv, p. 5, pi. ex, figs. 1-3. 

 Burtoa nilotica. — Bourguignat, Moll. Afrique equator., p. 89 (March, 



1889). 

 Livinhacia nilotica. — Crosse, Journ. de Conch., April 1889, p. 109. 



