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LIGUUS FASCIATUS ORNATUS Simpson 



Plate 2, fig. 10 



1920. Liguus fasciatus ornatus Simpson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 33, 

 p. 124. 



Shell subsolid, small to medium size, rather inflated ; axial region 

 pink or purplish ; surface yellowish, always becoming darker toward 

 the aperture, where it may be deep yellow, orange, pale yellowish 

 brown, or even scarlet; there is sometimes a faint lighter-colored 

 peripheral band and generally a few green or bronze spiral lines on 

 the last two whorls ; columella straight or twisted. 



Length of type 46, diameter 26 mm. 



Long Pine Key and hammocks along the rocky ridge to the Miami 

 River. One specimen at Ojus. 



It differs from roseatus in having no distinct supraperipheral band, 

 the entire shell being yellowish or brownish, and in always being 

 darker on the last whorl and base. Occasionally the columella is 

 nearly white, but the apex is colored. There are intermediates be- 

 tween it and roseatus^ and it may be a sport from or hybrid of that 

 form. Some shells flush into scarlet at the aperture. 



LIGUUS FASCIATUS VERSICOLOR Simpson 



Plate 2, figs. 5 and 11 



1920. Liguus fasdatus versicolor Simpson, Proc. Biol. See. Washington, vol. 33. 

 p. 125. 



Shell small to medium sized, solid, brilliantly polished, with some- 

 what rounded whorls; axial region pink or purplish at the tip but 

 usually only slightly colored at the columellar area. The ground 

 color may be greenish to brownish with narrow zigzag axial yellow 

 stripes and blotches, or it may vary to yellowish, in which case the 

 stripes and blotches are wanting, and it may have a double row of 

 irregular brown spots at the suture and on the periphery. There is 

 a smoky band with a lighter center at the periphery, and it may be 

 considerably broken up or almost entire. In some shells the general 

 tint is bluish or bluish black. 



Length of type 38, diameter 22 mm. ; length 40, diameter 24 mm. 



Long Pine Key in the lower Everglades. This island is 8 miles 

 long and 4 wide ; it is covered with a forest of Carribbean pine and 

 has fine hammocks scattered over it. It is in one large hammock on 

 this key that this form has its metropolis and is rarely found else- 

 where on the island. There is an abundance of material that com- 

 pletely connects the extremes of color in this exceedingly variable 

 form. Very rarely there are a few faint spiral dark lines on the 

 base of the shell. This is a wonderfully beautiful Liguiis, the most 



