THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 33. SEPTEMBER 1910. 



XXVIII. — A Survey of the South-African Stenogyrina?, with 

 Descriptions of several new Species. By M. CONNOLLY. 



[Plate VI. j 



Ever since Krauss, in 1848, described, under the names of 

 Bulimus turriformis and B. linearis, specimens of shells 

 brought by J. A. Wahlberg from Natal and Mt. Mohapaani 

 respectively, there has existed some confusion regarding them, 

 which has rendered difficult the task of differentiating be- 

 tween them and other closely allied members of their family 

 which abound over a great part of the Dark Continent. 



Both Krauss's descriptions can be and have been applied 

 by different authorities to totally different species from widely 

 divergent localities, while his figures do not sufficiently bring- 

 out the details lacking in his descriptions. 



Thanks to the courtesy of Dr. Sigalmar Theel, of the Royal 

 Academy of Stockholm, I have been privileged to examine 

 original specimens collected by Wahlberg and determined by 

 Dr. Krauss. The results are of considerable importance, and 

 would alone justify the appearance of a paper on the subject. 



The determination of Krauss's species leaves without names 

 several forms, some of which have been long known to 

 collectors, but more or less inappropriately referred by them 

 to turriformis or linearis. By the classification of some of 



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