PLACOSTYLUS, FIJI IS. 105 



P. HOYTI (Garrett). PI. 42, figs. 85-88. 



Shell umbilicate or compressed umbilicate, obese-ovate, rather 

 solid ; flesh-pink under a thin and partly deciduous yellowish cuticle, 

 copiously zigzag-streaked with dark green or olive-green ; the 

 spire nude, red or orange-red. Surface marked with growth lines 

 and densely, finely corrugated spirally. Spire short, the apex obtuse, 

 early whorls punctate. Whorls 4|, the last one inflated. 



Aperture large, ovate, yellowish inside ; peristome broadly ex- 

 panded, reflexed, pale-edged, orange-red within ; columellar margin 

 broadly dilated above, orange-red ; columella with a strong spiral 

 fold above. Parietal callus moderate, orange -red. 



Alt. 51, diam. 28; length of aperture 40 mill. 



Alt. 56, diam. 30 ; length of aperture 41 mill. 



Alt. 45, diam. 24 ; length of aperture 29 J mill. 



Vanua Levu, southward of Natawa Bay ; terrestrial (Garrett). 



Bulimus hoyti GARRETT, Amer. Journ. of Conch, vii, p. 234, pi. 

 18, f. 7 (1872) PFR., Monogr. viii, p. 30. CROSSE, Journ. de 

 Conchyl. 1875, p. 17, pi. 1, f. 8. Placostylus hoyti SCHMELTZ, Mus. 



Godeffroy Catal. vi, p. 81 GARRETT; P. Z. S. 1887, p. 182. 



KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab. p. 79, pi. 19, f. 1, 2. 



Readily distinguished from P. elobatus by its short, obese form, 

 large aperture and expanded lip. 



P. ELOBATUS (Gould). PI. 43, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



Shell perforate or umbilicate, long-ovate, moderately solid ; yellow 

 or reddish-yellow, with irregular, often interrupted green or olive 

 stripes and spots; the spire denuded of cuticle, flesh-colored, yellow- 

 ish or white. Surface rather dull, sculptured with slight growth- 

 lines and a dense conspicuous spiral corrugation, the wrinkles oblique 

 above, often anastomosing. Apex obtuse, 2-| early whorls pitted 

 when not eroded. Whorls 5 to 5^, slightly convex, the last moder- 

 ately inflated, tapering below. 



Aperture oblong, typically reddish-yellow inside, becoming orange 

 toward the peristome, which is pale-edged, blunt, and a trifle ex- 

 panded ; columella obliquely folded above, a spiral callous ridge of 

 whitish color being superposed in old shells ; the cokimellar margin 

 dilated above; parietal callus thin and transparent. 



Alt. 59, diam. 27; longest axis of aperture 33 mm. 



