260 LIMICOLARIA, WEST AFRICA. 



Angola (Pfr.). 



Bulimus flammulatus PFR., Zeitschr. f. Malak., 1847, p. 

 147; Monogr., ii, p. 181; Conchyl. Cab., p. 90, pi. 31, f. 5, 6. 

 Limicolaria f. PFR., Monogr., iv, 585; vi, 210; viii, 270. 

 KOBELT, C. Cab., p. 78, pi. 28, f. 5, 6 (copy from Pfr.). 



A small species, only sparsely streaked, and known only 

 from Pfeiffer's description and figures. 



16. L. NUMIDICA (Reeve). PL 19, figs. 1, 2, 3. 



Shell ovate-turrite, thin; very pale buff boldly and irreg- 

 ularly striped with reddish chestnut, the stripes very wide, 

 wavy and usually oblique on the median part of the last 

 whorl, usually splitting into slender branches along a belt 

 below the suture, and often dislocated at the base; the spire 

 marked with slender stripes, widening into spots above the 

 suture on the penult, whorl. Spire straightly turrited. 

 Whorls 9, slightly convex. Surface dull, striate, finely de- 

 cussate on the intermediate whorls and upper part of the 

 last one. Aperture slightly oblique, rather narrow, and 

 tapering above and below. 



Length 53, diam. 22, length of apert. 23 mm. 



Length 47.5, diam. 23, length of apert. 21.5 mm. 



West Africa: Yoruba (or Arriba) Land, inland from the 

 Gulf of Benin (Mann) ; Kamerun, in numerous localities 

 (Dusen) ; Corisco; Gabun (coll. A. N. S.) ; Free Town, Sierra 

 Leone (Stearns)! Prince's Island (Reeve). 



Bulimus numidicus REEVE, Conch. Icon., v, pi. 53, f. 351 

 (Nov., 1848). PFR., Monogr., iii, 386. Limicolaria numid- 

 ica PFR., Monogr., iv, 583; vi, 207. KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., 

 p. 75, pi. 12, f. 7, 8; pL 25, f. 3-8. D'AILLY, Bihang, etc., 

 xxii, p. 75. STEARNS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, xvi, p. 

 327. Achatina (L.)numidica MARTENS, Malak. BL, xiii, p. 

 105, pi. 4, f. 5-8. 



Reeve reported this species from Prince's Island, probably 

 incorrectly; but it occurs in abundance on the mainland of 

 the Gulf of Guinea. The splitting of the stripes into nar- 

 row, paler lines below the suture, and their usual obliquity 

 at the base are characteristic. ' The pale yellow, hard-shelled 



