94 HELICID^. 



An inhabitant of the South of Eu7'ope and Asiatic and African 

 shores of the Mediterranean ; introduced into our Fauna by Dr. 

 Turtonfrovi the species having bred in a hot-house in South Devon, 

 into which no foreign moiddwas hiown to have been admitted ; the 

 colony is noiv extinct. 



B. PUPA, Linnasus. 



Hdix pupa, Linn". Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1248. 



Bulimus iubcrcukUus. Ti'iiT. Zool. Journ. vol, ii. p. 363, pi. 13, f. 4; Manual L. 

 and F. W. Shells, p. 81, 142, f. C4. 

 „ pupa, h. Pfeif. Monog. Helic. vol. ii. p. 128 (with synonyms). 



A native of Sicily, Greece, Algiers, d-c. ; introduced by Dr. 

 Tiirton as from Worcestershire, 



B. GuiLDiNGii, PfeifFer. 



Bulimus urtivulatus (not of Lamarck), Turt. Manual L. and F. W. Shells, p. 85, 



f. 68. 

 Bulinus signatus (not of Wagner in Spix), SowEtiiiv (as of Guilding), Conch. 



Illust. Bulim. f. 57. 

 Bulimus OuUdi)i[/ii,'L.P FEiF. Symbolis, pt. 2, p. 115. — Reeve, Conch. Icon, 

 vol. V. Bui. pi. 64, f. 445. 



A West Indian shell, asserted by Turton to have been taken in 

 the vicinity of Penzance, in Cornwall. Mr. J. E. Gray, in his 

 " Introduction " to Turton's Manual, considers it to form bid one 

 species with the formosus and cylindrus (which last name has 

 priority) ; in the recent Monograph of the genus, by Reeve, how- 

 ever, the three shells are figured as distinct. 



B. vENTRicosus, Drapamaucl. 



Bulimus ventricosus (not Bulla ventricosa, Chemn.), Dkaparn. Moll. Ter. et 

 Fluv. France, p. 78, pi. 4, f. 31, 32. — Turt. Manual L. 

 and F. W. Shells, p. 86, f. 6.9. — Gray, Manual L. and 

 F. W. Shells, p. 12, f. 69 (as spurious). 

 „ ventorsus, L. Pfeif. Monog. Helic. vol. ii. p. 215 (with synonyms). 



A native of the South of France, &c.; introduced into our Fauna 

 by Turton, who evidently mistook a variety of acutus for it as 

 Cornish. His figure appears to be copied from Draparnaud. 



