pulmonata. 27 



34. Oleacina monilifera. 



Shell fusiform-ovate, thin, pellucid, regularly costiilate-striate, 

 ribs vanishing on the middle of the penultimate whorl, fulvous- 

 rosy, ornamented with remote, rufous, jiale-margined lines ; sjnre 

 short, conic ; sutm-e elegantly and closely granulose ; whorls 

 seven, nearly level, the last less than three-fifths the length, ven- 

 ti-icose ; columella scarcely arched, abruptly truncated at the 

 base ; aperture narrow, semioval. Lon. 29, lat. 14^ ; ap. Ion. 19, 

 lat. 6a mill. 



Achatina monilifera (Glandina), Pfr. in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, 75 ; 

 Mon. Helic. ii. 290. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. t. 14. f. 50. 

 Hab. Central America ; Coban, near Vera Cruz. 



35. Oleacina rubella. 



Shell ovate-fusiform, pellucid, thin, sculptured with rib-like 

 stripe, redihsh honi-coloured, irregularly marked with distant 

 brown lines ; spire conic, verj' variable in length ; suture verj- 

 minutely granulose ; whorls seven to eight, moderately convex, 

 last ventricose ; columella almost rectilinear, sometimes twisted, 

 abruptly truncated ; aperture narrow ; ])eristome sharj), with the 

 outer margin slightly dilated in the middle, bordered with brown 

 externally, united with the columellar one by a thin callus. 

 Length 28-32, breadth 14 mill. {Mor.) 



Glandina rubella, Morelet, Test. Noviss. i. 14. n. 27. 

 Achatina rubella, Pfr. Mon. Suppl. 513. 

 Hab. Vera Paz, Central America. 



This may be a variety of 0. monilifera, Pfr. 



36. Oleacina stigmatica. 



Shell fusiformly ovate, thin, striated indistinctly and minutely, 

 shining, homy, marked with distant, rather broad, brownish 

 chestnut-coloured streaks ; spire conic, blunt ; whorls seven, 

 moderately convex, the last forming three-fifths of the total 

 length ; suture bordered very narrowly and orenulated minutely ; 

 columella scarcely arched, abruptly truncated at its base ; aper- 

 ture semiovate ; peristome shfu'p, right margin rather flexuous, 

 with the edge fuscous. Length 14, breadth 5 mill. {Sh.) 



Achatina stigmatica (Polvphemus), Shuttlewortk in Bern. Mit- 

 theil. 1852, 202. 



Pfr. Mon. Suppl. 514. 

 Hab. Cordova, Vera Cruz {Jacot-Guillarmod). 



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