1 1 4 LIMNJEID.E. 



lined; spire rather short, conical, acuminated; whorls 3, small, a 

 little convex ; aperture pyriform, rounded anteriorly, columellar 

 fold strong, raised to the middle, arched. 



Alt. 24, diam. maj. 12-25 (%. in Conch. Icon.). 



Hab. Siam. 



Resembling Limncca pinguis, but marked with reddish lines. 

 (Sowerby.) 



224. Limnsea (Gulnaria) simulans (Preston). 



Limneea (Gulnaria) simulans (Preston), Rec. Ind. Mus. Calcutta, 

 ii, pt. 1, 1908, p. 46, fig. 6 (as L. simulans}. 



Original description: Shell fusiform, brownish horn colour; 

 whorls 5; sutures impressed; umbilicus narrow, partly concealed 

 by the reflexed columella ; columella arched, thick, extending into 

 a callus which reaches the lip above; peristome simple ; aperture 

 inversely auriform. 



Alt. 7*75, diam. maj. 4'25 mm. 



Aperture : alt. 4, diam. 2 mm. 



Bab. Pharping, Nepal. 



Section BULIMNEA. 



Bulimnea, Haldeman, Mon. Freshwater Univ. Moll. U.S.A. 1842 

 (Limnea), p. 6. 



TYPE, Limneea megasoma, Say; IN .AY. Territory, U.S.A.; Ver- 

 mont, U.S.A. 



llanye. N.America; Europe; Asia. 



Original description : Shell thick in texture, inflated, lip not 

 ^expanded. 



.225. Limnsea (Bulimnea) truncatula (Jeffreys). 



Limneea (Bui' .mea) truncatula (Jeffreys,), Trans. Linu. Soc. xvi, 

 1830, p. 7 (as Limnceus truncatulus) ; Miiller, Verm. Hist. 

 1774, pt. -, p. 130 (as Buccinum truncatuhtm) ; H. <fc T., 0. I. 

 1876, p. 16. 



Lymncsa truncatula, in Reeve, L. & F. W. Moll. British Isles, p. 164. 



Shell : acuminately ovate, distinctly umbilicated, rather solid, 

 yellowish horny, spire rather produced ; whorls 5 to 6, convex, 

 truncate next the sutures, roughly and often densely striated in 

 the direction of the lines of growth ; aperture rather small, ovate, 

 columella callous, but little twisted, lip elongately expandedly 

 reflected round the circumference of the umbilicus. (Reeve.} 



Alt. 13, diam. 7*75 mm. (spec.). 



Hab. Europe ; Afghanistan ; Kashmir. 



226. Limnaea (Bulimnea) bowelli (Preston). 



Limn&a (Bulimnea) bowelli (Preston), Re 

 no. 3, p. 115, figs, (as L. bowelli). 



Original description: Shell rimate, acuminately ovate, rather 



Limncca (Bulimnea) bowelli (Preston), Rec. Ind. Mus. iii, pt. 2, 

 no. 3, p. 115, figs, (as L. bowelli). 



