100 PLACOSTYLUS, FIJI IS. 



P. SEEMANNI (Dohrn). PL 39, figs. 58, 59, 60. 



Shell perforate or umbilicate, oblong-fusiform, solid and strong ; 

 flesh-tinted or yellowish under a yellowish-brown, olivaceous or 

 chestnut cuticle, which is wanting on the spire, denuded below the 

 suture, and usually shows zigzag paler and denuded stripes radiating 

 from above. Surface scarcely shining, roughened by moderate 

 growth-wrinkles, the earlier 2^ whorls punctate. Spire high-conic, 

 often yellow above, the apex obtuse. Whorls 5 to 5^, moderately 

 -convex, the last whorl long, often cylindrical. 



Aperture ear-shaped, white, flesh-colored or brown within, acumi- 

 nate above ; peristome rather thick, reflexed, broad, its convex face 

 white, buff or pale flesh-tinted ; outer lip more or less bent inward 

 about the middle, its upper third distinctly narrower ; columella with 

 a strong, calloused fold above ; parietal callus varying from thin to 

 irather heavy. 



Alt. 77, diam. 30 ; aperture with peristome 46 mill. 

 Alt. 67, diam. 28 ; aperture with peristome 40mill. 



Kandavu Island, Viti group , on the ground (Garrett). 

 Bulimus seemanni DOH&N, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 207, pi. 26, f. 6. 

 CROSSE, Journ. de Conchyl., 1864, p. 123; 1875, p. 10. PFR., 

 Monog. vi, p. 13 ; viii, 27 ; Novit. Conch, iii, p. 474, pi. 102, f. 18. 

 GARRETT, Amer. Journ. of Conch, vii, 1872, p. 232 Placostylus 

 seemanni MOUSSON, J. de C. 1870, p. 126. TAPPORONE-CANEFRI, 

 Viag. "Magenta," Zool., p. 85. SMITH, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 270. 

 GARRETT, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 181. KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., p. 14, 

 p. 2, f. 2-5. Otostomus seemanni SEMPER, Reisen in Archip. Phil., 

 Land-moll., p. 150, pi. 16, f. 9. 



" Though subject to considerable variation in size and shape, it 

 may be distinguished by its rather slender form, whitish horn-color 

 beneath a yellowish or olive-brown epidermis, which is sometimes 

 ornamented with waved or zigzagged stripes. The surface, though 

 coarsely striated with lines of growth, is seldom marked by trans- 

 verse corrugation. The auriculate-shaped aperture is narrow, white, 

 though sometimes tinted with fulvous, and the white lip is consider- 

 ably expanded and slightly reflected, and frequently contracted above. 

 Length from 52-77 mill. Like all the ground species, it is very 

 frequently decorticated" (Garrelt). 



