LIMICOLARIA, CONGO BASIN. 271 



Aperture elliptical, tapering basally, the lip acute, milky 

 within ; columella brown, lightly arcuate, the margin reflexed 

 above the perforation. Length 37, diam. 16, length of apert. 

 15 mm. (Putz.). 



Congo Free State: Bena Bendi. 



L. distincta PUTZEYS, t. c., p. v, f. 3. 



34. L. CONGOLANICA Putzeys. PL 17, fig. 92. 



Shell very narrowly perforate, oblong-turrite, thin, striat- 

 ulate; spire turrite, the apex obtuse, suture slightly crenu- 

 late; whorls 7, a little convex, yellowish or brownish-yellow, 

 ornamented with irregular flammules or lines of brown, of 

 very variable length, very frequently confluent and wider 

 above the suture; last whorl oblong, dilated at base, the 

 coloration abruptly divided at the periphery into two parts: 

 posteriorly it is colored as described above; anteriorly it is 

 painted with separate lines or confluent flammules. Aper- 

 ture subtrapezoidal, dilated basally; lip acute, translucid, 

 very minutely reflexed, delicately ochre-edged. Columella 

 rather thick, twisted, ochre-violaceous, the columellar margin 

 reflexed over the perforation. Length 39, diam. 17, apert. 

 17 mm. (Putz.). 



Congo Free State: Wathen. 



L. congolanica PUTZEYS, t. c., p. v, f. 4. 



Var. lineolata Putz. Whole surface ornamented with 

 brown lines following growth-lines. Wathen. 



35. L. CHEFNEUXI Bourguignat. PL 17, fig. 88. 



Shell slightly perforate (the perforation almost wholly 

 covered), oblong, like a Glandina, subpellucid, glossy, finely 

 striatulate, the striae stronger at the suture; uniform pale 

 corneous-ochraceous, without flammules. Spire oblong, at the 

 summit obtuse, the apex smooth. Whorls 7, a little convex, 

 regularly and not rapidly increasing, parted by a rather 

 impressed suture ; the last whorl convex, not half the length 

 of the shell. Aperture subvertical, lunate, long, oblong- 

 narrow, outer margin moderately and regularly convex, 

 acutely angular above, angular at the base of the columella; 



