284 LIMICOLARIA, WEST AFRICA. 



40, diam. 18-19; length of apert. 16.5-18, width 11-12 mm. 

 (Morel.). 



West Africa: Serra de Pedras de Guinga (Pungo-An- 

 dongo), in virgin forest, on high ground, Angola (Wel- 

 witsch). 



Bulimics chromatellus MOREL., Journ. de Conch., 1866, p. 

 154; Voy. Dr. Welwitsch, p. 62, pi. 3, f. 2. L. chromatetta 

 PFR., Monogr., vi, 209. KOBELT, C. Cab., p. 115, pi. 31, f. 

 3, 4; pi. 33, f. 7, 8. 



Related to L. tenebrica Reeve, of which Morelet thinks it 

 may be a local variety. 



23. L. TENEBRICA (Reeve). PI. 19, figs. 8, 9, 10. 



" Shell cylindrically oblong, whorls 7-8, rather rounded, 

 very finely reticulated near the sutures, crenulated along the 

 edge; columella rolled back, lip simple, sharp; whitish, stained 

 with purple-rose and conspicuously painted with large 

 blotches of purple-black" (Reeve). 



West Africa: Ibu (Fraser, type loc.) ; Kamerun, at 

 Ekumba-Liongo (Dusen) ; Grand Bassarn (Verreaux). 



Bulimus tenebricus RVE V Conch. Icon., v, pi. 53, f. 347 

 (Nov., 1848). PFR., Monogr., iii, p. 387. L. tenebrica 

 SHUTT., Notitise, i, p. 50. PFR., Monogr., iv, 585. KOBELT, 

 Conchyl. Cab., p. 66, pi. 20, f. 7, 8 ( ?). D'AILLY, Bihang, 

 p. 74. 



The whorls are decidedly convex. Fig. 8 is Reeve's type. 

 I figure two specimens received from Sowerby & Fulton as 

 from Sierra Leone, which seem referable to tenebrica. One 

 (fig. 9) has rather wide stripes on a pale reddish ground; 

 the other (fig. 10) much more numerous and narrower stripes 

 on a yellow ground. Only a few almost obsolete spiral lines 

 are present in these shells, which could not be described as 

 " finely reticulated near the sutures." 



24. L. SUBCONICA Martens. PI. 21, figs. 26, 27. 



Shell half-covered perforate, turrite-conic, a little glossy, 

 delicately striatulate; isabelline-whitish, marked with few 

 rather wide chestnut streaks, which taper above, or uni- 



