PLACOSTYLUS, FIJI IS. Ill 



Aperture ovate, white or brown-tinted inside; peristome white, 

 well reflexed, the columellar margin dilated, encroaching upon the 

 parietal wall ; columella with a moderate or strong and heavily cal- 

 loused fold above. 



Length 51, diam. 25 ; longest axis of aperture 33 mill. 



Length 42, diam. 20^ ; longest axis of aperture 27-J- mill. 



Viti Levu and Ovalau 7s., Viti group, on trunks and foliage of trees 

 (Garrett). 



Plekocheilus gracilis BROD., P. Z. S., 1840, p. 182. Bulimus ful- 

 guratus JAY, Revue ool., 1842, p. 80 ; Guerin's Mag. de Zool., 1843, 

 pi. 62 PHILIPPI, Abbild. u. Beschreib. neuer Conch., ii, p. 10, 

 pi. 3, f. 2. PFR., Monogr., ii, p. 55 ; iii, 316 ; iv, 378 ; vi, 23 ; viii, 



34 REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 29, f. 175. GLD., U. S. Expl. Exped., 



p. 80, fig. 77. Mouss., J. de Conchyl., 1865, p. 195. CROSSE, J. 

 de Conchyl., 1864, p. 137 ; 1875, p. 17. GARRETT, Amer. Journ. 

 of Conch., 1872, p. 231, pi. 18, f. 1. Placostylus fulguratus Mous- 

 SON, J. de Conchyl., 1870, p. 125 SCHMELTZ, Catal. Mus. Godef- 

 froy v, p. 92. GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 180. KOBELT, Con- 

 chyl. Cab., p. 60, pi. 14, f. 4, 5, 6 Charis fulguratus FFLD., Verh. 

 Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1869, p. 874. Otostornus fulguratus SEMPER, 

 Reisen im Archip. Phil., Landmoll., p. 158, pi. 17, f. 10 .(teeth). 

 Bidimus eximius REEVE, Conch. System, ii, p. 81, pi. 173, f. 2 

 (1842). 



Bulimus crossiiabrum GARRETT, Amer. Jour. Conch., vii, 1872, 

 p. 233> pi. 18, f. 5 PFR., Monogr., viii, p. 35. CROSSE, J. de 

 Conchyl., 1875, p. 18. Placostylus crassilabrum SCHMELTZ, Catal. 

 Mus. Godeffroy v, p. 93. KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., p. 61, pi. 14, f. 7, 

 8 Placostylus rugatus var. crassilabris GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, 

 p. 183. 



Bidimus rugatus GARRETT, Amer Journ. Conch, vii, 1872, p. 234, 

 pi. 18, f. 6. CROSSE, J. de C., 1875, p. 18. PFR., Monogr., viii, 

 p. 35. Placostylus rugatus SCHMELTZ, Catal. Mus. Godeffroy, vi, 

 p. 81 KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., p. 126, pi. 31, f. 4, and var. minor, 

 f. 5, 6. GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 183. P. vugatus PFR.-CLESS., 

 Nomencl. Hel. Viv., 1878, p. 217. 



This was the first Vitian Placostylus to be described ; and as the 

 name gracilis is pre-occupied in neither Plekocheilus or Placostylus, 

 the propriety of restoring it will be apparent. 



The spiral corrugation, while varying a good deal in degree of 



