PULMONATA. 33 



Achatina fiisiformis, Pfr. m Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, 75; Man. 

 Helic. ii. 292. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. t. 9. f. 31. 



Desk. I. c. 181. n. 45. t. 13/. f. 1-3. 

 Hab. Mt. Coban, near Vera Cruz, Central America. 



.53. Oleacina Sowerbyana. 



Shell ovate-fusiform, rather thin, diaphanous, closely plicated 

 longitudinally, miequally decussate-granulated 1)}' distant spiral 

 striae, fulvous-reddish, ornamented vnih remote brown stripes ; 

 spire conic, apex acute ; suture white-margined, crenulated ; 

 whorls seven and a lialf, nearly level, the last less than five- 

 ninths the length ; columella arched, abruptly truncated at the 

 base ; aperture pointed-oblong ; peristome simple, margins united 

 bv a thin callus, dextral bent back. Lon. 88, lat. 38 ; ap. Ion. 52, 

 lat. 20mill. 



Achatina Sowerbyana (Glandina), Pfr. in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1846, 

 32 ; Mon. Helic. ii. 293. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. t. 8. f. 26. 

 Glandina, Alh. 198. 

 Hab. Totontepec, Mexico. 



Yar. 1. Elongate. 



Achatina lignaria, Reeve, Conch. Icon. t. 8. f. 27. 



Hab. ? (Mus. Dennison.) 



54, Oleacina aurata. 



Shell oblong-fusiform, solid, opake, violaceous, covered with a 

 deciduous, silk-shining, brownish-yellow periostraca, granularly 

 decussated, yellowish near the aperture, pearly within ; suture 

 bordered, whitish, denticulate, irregular ; whorls six, moderateh' 

 convex, the last a little shorter than the spire, attenuated in front ; 

 columella arched, truncated obliquely ; aperture elliptical ; peri- 

 stome straight, sharp, with the margins thickened. Length 87, 

 breadth 35 mill. {Mor.) 



Glanchna aurata, Morelet, Test. Noviss. i. 12. n. 20. 



Achatina aurata, Pfr. Mon. Suppl. 517- 



Hab. Woods in the province of Vera Paz, Guatemala. 



55, Oleacina coronata. 



Shell ovate-oblong, rather thin, subdiajihanous, longitudinallv 

 closely plicated, irregularly decussated with distant, impressed, 

 s{)iral lines, vanishing below the middle of the last whorl, flesh- 

 colourc<l, ornamented with brownish spots, with some fainter in 



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