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6. L. OBSOLETA (Morelet). 



Shell perforate, truncate, ovate-fusiform, rather solid, ob- 

 soletely striate, seen under a lens to be granulose-decussate, 

 especially at the sutures, slightly shining, waxen, buff- 

 fulvous. Whorls remaining 6, a little convex, joined by a 

 white subcrenulate suture, the last whorl three-tenths the 

 total length. Aperture semi-oval, whitish-fleshy within ; peri- 

 stome simple, unexpanded, the columellar margin dilated, 

 vaulted and reflexed over the minute, pervious perforation. 

 Length 30, diam. 15 mm. (Morel.). 



West Africa: Sierra Leone (Morelet). 



Bulimus obsoletus MORELET, Journ. de Conchyl., 1864, p. 

 158 L.(?) obsoleta PFR., Monogr., vi, 209. 



Known only by Morelet 's original description. 



7. L. KAMBEUL (Bruguiere). PL 24, fig. 4. 



Shell pyramidal-ovate, perforate, rather solid; white with 

 red-brown longitudinal streaks (often more or less zigzag) 

 under a thin yellow cuticle. Surface slightly shining, the 

 surface above the periphery decussate with axial striaa cut 

 by incised spirals; below the periphery it is nearly smooth. 

 Spire straightly conic, the apex obtuse. Whorls Sy 2 , mod- 

 erately convex. Aperture small, lilac-fleshy inside, the lip 

 thin, columella straight or concave, subcylindric, the edge 

 being well reflexed. 



Length 55, diam. 27, length apert. 26.5 mm. 



West Africa: Senegal (Adanson) ; Cape Palmas, Liberia 

 (Acad. coll.); Gorea (Brunner). 



Bulimus kambeul BRUGUIERE, Encycl. Meth., i, p. 322. 

 DESK, in Fer., Hist., p. 109, pi. 141 A, f. 3. SHUTTLW., 

 Notitisfi, i, p. 41. Bulimulus kambul GRAY, Figs. Moll. Anim., 

 p. 116, pi. 74, f. 3. Pythia flammea OKEN, Lehrbuch der Zo- 

 ologie, p. 321 (1815). 



In its several varieties, this species stretches from Senegal 

 to the sources of the Nile. 



The typical form of this species is the rather small West 

 African race, such as the Cape Palmas specimens described 

 above and figured in fig. 4, and in Fer., Hist., pi. 141 A, f. 3. 



