LIGUUS CORONA. , 175 



Aperture small, oblique, whitish or maculated within ; outer lip 

 acute ; columella vertical, moderately heavy, somewhat truncated at 

 the base; the parietal and columellar callus more or less pinkish, the 

 former rather thin. 



Alt. 43, diam. 19, longest axis of aperture 19 mill. 



Alt. 38, diam. 17, longest axis of aperture 17 mill. 



Sierra de Rangel, in the cordillera de los Organos, about 30 leagues 

 S. S.-E. from Havana, Cuba. 



Achatina blainiana POEY, Memorias sobra la Hist. Nat. de la isla 



de Cuba i, p. 206, pi. 12, f. 4-6 (1851) PFR., Zeitschr. f. Malak. 



1852, p. 176 ; Conchyl. Cab., p. 364, pi. 24, f. 4, 5 ; Monogr. iii, p. 

 489 ; iv, 605 ; vi, 221. GUNDLACH, Malak. Blatter iv, 1857, p. 45. 



Poey mentions a specimen 47 mill, long, but the ordinary size is 

 about 40 mill. It is closely allied to L.fasciatus, with which Arango 

 unites it, but may be distinguished by the more compressed or con- 

 tracted last whorl, and the particular pattern of coloring, which does 

 not vary materially in the small series of some 23 specimens before 

 me. Still, there are certain forms of fasciatus which approach 

 blainianus, and when full series from the region adjacent to its local- 

 ity are collected, I do not have much doubt that blaimanus will be 

 given subspecific rather than specific rank. 



Subgenus CORONA Albers, 1850. 



Corona ALDERS, Die Heliceen, p. 193 (for Achatina reyina Fer. 

 and A. flammigera Fer.) SHUTTLEWORTH, Notitiae Conchologiae 



i, p. 66 (1856) VON MARTENS in Die Hel. edit. 2, p. 226 (type 0. 



regina Fer.). BuJimus and Achatina sp., of various authors ffelix, 

 subg. Cochlitoma sp. of Ferussac. Not Corone Kaup, 1829 (Aves), 

 nor Coronus Dej., 1833 (Coleoptera), nor Coronia Ehrenberg. 



Shell lengthened, ovate conic, solid, sinistral or dextral, without 

 spiral striation ; apex obtuse, the first whorl planorboid above, smooth, 

 the following 1^ whorls of the nepionic shell irregularly striated or 

 wrinkled irj the direction of growth-line*, when unworn. Aperture 

 oblique, the outer lip unexpanded, thin, the inner margin covered 

 with a blackish callus and deeply excavated at the root of the colu- 

 mella ; columella twisted, with a heavy callous fold, usually more or 

 less distinctly truncate at base. Soft anatomy unknown. 



Type: Helix (Cochlitoma} regina Fer. See plates 33 to 36a. 



Distribution : Eastern side of the Andes from Bolivia to Ecuador, 

 eastward to the province of Bahiaand to Guiana. 



