346 Qua/ terly Journal of Coiichology. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF ACHATINA. 



By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S. 

 Zoological Department, Briliih Museum. 



The following interesting species form part of the National 

 collection, which contains a very fine series o{ Achat iiuv^ compris- 

 ing nearly all the described large African forms, with a very few 

 exceptions. 



Achatina albopicta. 



Testa crassiusciila, acuminate ovata, saturate fusca strigis luaculis- 

 que a /bis diverse picta ; spira acuminata apice pallido, sub- 

 obtuso ; anfractus 7J2 nicdiocriter convex i, ubique granu/ati, 

 granulis oblongis ; sutura leviter obliqua anguste alba niar- 

 ginata; apcrtura elongate ovalis superne acuini/iata, perpendi- 

 cu ban's, longitudinis testa J/4 a-qua//s, intus callo albo induta; 

 columella aliquanto arcuafa, basi breviter truncata, callo albo 

 usque ad marginem peristomatis exterioreni continuo amicta. 

 Long. S4 mill. ; Diain. j/ ; ap:rt. long. 43 ; diam. 22. 



I-Iab. ? Probably African. 



Shell rather solid and heavy, ovate, acuminate above or in the 

 direction of the apex. The colors are about equally divided, and 

 consequently the ground color may be termed either white or dark- 

 brown ; in the former case it would be streaked and blotched with 

 brown and in the latter with white. The streaking and blotching 

 are very irregular, but decidedly display a tendency for an oblique 

 direction parallel VN'ith the Imes of growth. Whorls 7^2, rather 

 convex, and ornamented over the entire surface with narrow, 

 elongate granules, which like the coloring also follow the direc- 

 tion of the incremental lines or strice. The last whorl is not very 

 ventricose, bu extends or is produced some distance belovv^ the 



