MACROCERAMUS, HAITI. 131 



whorls, the first 2y 2 pale, next one dark ; the coloration of the 

 rest being about typical, though often more profusely streaked 

 with blackish-brown. Length 11, diam. 3.7 mm., length of 

 aperture 3 mm. It looks a good deal like M. gundlachi of 

 eastern Cuba. These specimens were collected in Santo 

 Domingo by Gabb; exact locality unrecorded. 



12. M. KLATTEANUS Bland. PL 22, figs. 44-47. 



" Shell rimate, oblong-turrited, rather solid, obliquely 

 ribbed ; whitish, with chestnut-colored, interrupted stripes and 

 spots. Spire elongate, apex whitish; suture subcrenulated. 

 Whorls 10, rather convex, the last rounded, compressed at the 

 base near the aperture ; one interrupted dark band below the 

 periphery. Aperture diagonal subcircular; peristome white, 

 obtuse, with approximating margins, right margin subarcuate, 

 columellar margin scarcely dilated. Length 11, width 4 mm. ; 

 aperture 3 mm. long." (Bid.) 



Haiti: near Port-au-Prince (Mrs. Wm. Klatte; Henderson 

 and Simpson). 



M. klatteanus BLD V Ann. of the'Lyc. of Nat. Hist, of New 

 York, xi, p. 83 (Feb., 1875). PPB., Monogr., viii, p. 418. 

 CROSSE, J. de C., 1891, p. 130. Macroceramus nitidulus 

 MALTZAN, Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malak. Ges., 1888, p. 

 178. CROSSE, J. de C., 1891, p. 133. 



The original description is copied above, and fig. 47 repre- 

 sents one of the original specimens, received from Bland. It 

 is about the size of M. hermanni, but differs from that in the 

 tapering shape, stronger sculpture and coloration. The last 

 whorl is widest, the whole spire tapering to the apex, which 

 may be whitish, but is ordinarily brown ; and the lateral out- 

 lines are slightly convex. The sculpture is of rather strong, 

 but low, curved riblets, the spaces between having more or 

 less distinct hammered impressions. The shell may be 

 white, with sparse spots in pairs, and a brown subperipheral 

 band, or it may be light gray-brown with darker vertical 

 streaks at unequal intervals, formed by coalescence of spots, 

 each streak with a cream- white border on the right side ; these 

 darker shells having a subperipheral band and umbilical spot 



