64 PLACOSTYLUS, NEW CALEDONIA. 



rarely the aperture and lip are white, as in P. mariei. It is from 

 the Poume peninsula, on the west coast of New Caledonia, and the 

 name is emended to v. poumeana by Crosse. 

 Var. chrysochila (Crosse). PI. 32, figs. 22, 23. 



" Imperforate, ovate-acute, covered with a black-chestnut epider- 

 mis, nude and buff-whitish above. Whorls 6^ ; aperture irregularly 

 oblong, slightly narrowed and somewhat rectangular at the base, 

 orange within, vivid purplish-orange just within the peristome ; peri- 

 stome orange, less thickened than in the typical form of pseudocale- 

 donicus. Length 65, diam. 34, apert. with perist. 40 mill, long." 



Gutope (type locality; Marie), Ouagap ; Nekete (Vieillard, De- 

 planches). 



Bulimus pseudocaledonicus var. chrysochila CROSSE, Journ. de 

 Conchyl., 1870, p. 243. B. annibal GASSIES, Faune, ii, pi. 6, f. 3 

 (1871). B. gaudryanus GASSIES, Journ. de Conchyl., 1878, p. 



335; Faune iii, p. 38, pi. 1, f. 24 (1880) Placostylus gaudryanus 



Gass., KOBELT, t. c., p. 95, pi. 23, f. 3, 4 (1891) P. annibal var. 

 chrysochila CROSSE, J. de C., 1894, p. 285. 



Fig. 23 is Gassies' illustration of the synonymous B. gaudryanus. 



Var. annibal (Souverbie). PI. 32, figs. 19, 20, 21. 



Imperforate or subrimate, somewhat compressed, longitudinally 

 wrinkle-striate or wrinkle-plicatulate, pale flesh colored under a 

 brownish-chestnut epidermis, which is more or less dark, and streaked 

 with a darker shade, very rarely with some blackish spiral lines. 

 Whorls 7, the penultimate and preceding ones obliquely striate- 

 malleate, the last whorl more or less conspicuously submalleate. 



Aperture purplish-orange near the lip, bluish in the throat ; peri- 

 stome obtuse, thickened inside, pale fleshy-white, sometimes rather 

 buff or somewhat orange, the terminations joined by a thick callus 

 bearing a small, deeply situated tubercle in the middle ; outer lip 

 broadly sinused above, columella straightened, sometimes tuberculate 

 below. 



Alt. Zl, diam. 36 mill.; alt. 64, diam. 32 mill.; alt. 75, diam. 34 

 mill. Bonde (Lambert). 



BuUmus annibal Souv., Journ. de Conchyl., 1869, p. 416; 1870, 

 p. 78, pi. 9, f. 3, 3a. GASSIES, Faune, ii, p. 83, pi. 6, f. 1, 2 (1871). 

 PFR., Monogr. viii, p. 116. Placostylus annibal KOBELT, t. c., p. 

 94, pi. 23, f. 1, 2 (1891). CROSSE, J. de C., 1894, p. 284. 



