110 auriculae. 



9. BLAUNERIA, Shuttleworth. 



Shell imperforate, oblong-turrited, thin; aperture narrow, 

 elongate ; body of the penultimate whorl bearing a single plait 

 near the columella, which is rather truncate ; peristome simple, 

 straight. Animal showing the characters of the family of the 

 Auriculidce, not of Helicidce. 



Blauneria, Sliuttl. Diaqn. n. Moll. no. 6. p. 148. 



Pfr. in Malak. Bl, 1854, i. p. 152 ; Mon. Auric, p. 153. 

 Achatinpe et Tornatellinse, sp., Pfr., olim. 

 Oleacinse, sp., H. and A. Adams. 



The only species, when first described by Dr. L. Pfeili'er in 

 1839, was referred, with doubt, to the genus Achatina, then re- 

 moved to TornateUina. Dr. Gundlach has observed the animal, 

 and on account of its peculiar-formed shell it has been made 

 into a genus. 



1. Blauneria pellucid a. 



Shell sinistral, oblong-turri ted, extremely thin, smooth, glassy; 

 spire turrited, with the apex rather blunt ; suture very slight ; 

 whorls six and a half to seven, flat, the last a little shorter than 

 the spire ; parietal lamella entering ; aperture narrow, lanceo- 

 late; peristome sharp, with the columellar margin extremely 

 short. Length 5, breadth If mill. 



Achatina ? pellucida, Pfr. in Wieqm. Arch. f. Nat. 1840, i. p. 252. 

 Gould in Binn. Terr. Moll. Un. St. in p. 294. pi. 53. f. 2. _ 

 Tomatellina Cubensis, Pfr. Sijmb. ii. p. 130; Mon. Helic. ii. 



p. 391. n. 3. 



Kilst. Pupa, p. 151. t. 18. f. 16, 17. 

 Blauneria pellucida, Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 164; Mon. Auric, p. 153. 

 Odostomia ? Cubensis, Poet/, Memor. i. p. 394. 

 Oleaeina (Strobilus) Cubensis, II. and A. Adams, Gen. rec. Moll. 



ii. p. 106. 

 Hob. Cuba! Jamaica (C. B. Adams); Portorico (Blauner); 



Florida. 



10. ALEXIA, Leach. 



Shell oblong-ovate, thin ; spire acuminated ; last whorl large, 

 rounded at base ; aperture rather broad, acuminately ovate ; 

 body of the penultimate whorl bearing one to five tubercular 

 plaits; columellar plait oblique; peristome slightly expanded, 

 with the right margin callous or toothed within. 



Alexia, Leach, 1818, Catal. 



