28 PULMONATA. 



37. Oleacina DELICATULA. 



Shell ovate-fusiform, tliiu, diaplianous, closely folded and fur- 

 rowed, very shining, flesh-coloured-horny, marked with distant 

 narrow reddish-brown streaks, which are bordered with \\hitish ; 

 spire raised, conic, blunt ; whorls eight, convex, the last forming 

 three-fifths of the total length ; suture impressedly bordered, 

 crenulated ; columella ai'ched, abruptly truncated at its base ; 

 aperture semiovate, somewhat dilated in front ; peristome sharp, 

 straight, with the edge pale. Length 17, breadth 8 mill. {Sli.) 



Achatiaa delicatula (Pohi^hemus), Shuttleworth in Bern. Mittheil. 

 1852, 202. 

 Pfr. Mon. Suppl. 514. 

 Hab. Vera Cruz. 



38. Oleacina Griffithsii. B.M. 



Shell fusiform -tun-eted, longitudinally closely costulate-striated, 

 homy straw-coloured, ornamented with scattered rufous stripes ; 

 spire elongate, turreted, apex rather acute ; whorls ten, very 

 slightly convex, the last scarcely equalling two-fifths the length, 

 impressed in the middle, rather gdibous at the base ; columella 

 obliquely twisted, obliquely truncated at the base of the aper- 

 ture ; aperture irregular, sinuous-oblong ; peristome somewhat 

 thickened within, white, dextral margin angulai-ly dilated in the 

 middle. Lon. 22, lat. 6^ ; ap. Ion. 9, lat. 3^. 



Achatina Griffithsii, Adams in Proc. Bost. Soc. 1845, 14. 



Pfr. Mon. Helic. ii. 290; Ic. n. 54. Bui. t. 27. f. 4, 5. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. t. 15. f. 64. 



Alb.W5 (Meha). 

 Bulimus Griffithii, Adams in sched. olim. 

 Glandina Griffithii, Pfr. in Zeitschr.f. Malak. 1845, 158. 



Morelet in Journ. Conch. 1852, 39. 

 Hab. Jamaica. 



39. Oleacina ligata. 



Shell turreted, somewhat fusiform, thin, closely sculptured with 

 longitucUnal hair-like striaj, silk-shining, pale fulvous, irregularly 

 marked with narrow, distant, reddish-brown streaks ; spire tur- 

 reted ; apex rather pointed ; suture impressed ; whorls eight, 

 scarcely convex, the last forming three-fifths of the total length, 

 varicose, furrowed and constricted in the middle ; columella 

 short, almost rectilinear, truncated ol^liquely ; aperture irregular, 

 rather triangulai- ; peristome slightly expanded, with the con- 



