METACHATINA. 309 



Length 123, diam. 64; aperture 63 mm. long. 



Length 120, diam. 75; aperture 63 mm. long. 



South Africa : Natal Bay, in the woods, and on the Umlaas 

 river (Krauss). 



Bulimus kraussi PFR., Symbolge ad Hist. Hel., iii, p. 85 

 (1846) ; Monogr. Hel. Viv., ii, p. 184. KRAUSS, Die Siid- 

 afrik. Moll., p. 78, pi. 5, f. 4 (1848). REEVE, Conch. Icon., 

 f. 436 (1849). Limicolaria kraussi PFR., Nomencl. Hel. Viv., 

 1878, p. 262. Livinhacia kraussi Pfr., CROSSE, Journ. de 

 Conchyl., 1889, p. 111. KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., i, pt. 10, 

 p. 7, pi. 2, f. 1. STURANY, Catal. Siidafr. Land- und Siiss- 

 wasser-Moll., p. 59 (1898). Burtoa kraussi BGT., Moll. Afric. 

 Equal., p. 95 (1889). Achatina fuscolabris MARTENS, in 

 Alb., Die Hel., p. 202 (1861) ; Sitzungsber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 p. 163 (1889). 



A well-known and abundant species. Immature shells 

 sometimes retain part of the chestnut-colored cuticle. This 

 peels off freely, so that adult shells are wholly denuded, or 

 retain only a narrow strip behind the lip. 



Var. ELONGATA Godet. The examples of this beautiful 

 species procured by Mr. Junod are more lengthened than the 

 type. The freshest are pale brown with wide brown trans- 

 verse bands, obsolete on the base of the last whorl. One of 

 the examples shows on the ventral face thin, brown, trans- 

 verse rays, very crowded, resembling the pattern of Aclia- 

 tina zebra. Environs of Lourenzo-Marquez, Delagoa. 



Livinhacia kraussi var. elongata GODET, in Junod, La faune 

 entomol. du Delagoa, Bull, de la Soc. Vaudoise des Sci. Nat, 

 xxxv, no. 133, p. 279 (1899). 



2. M. PLANTI (Pfeiffer). PL 37, figs. 10, 11. 



Shell turrite-oblong, rather solid, fleshy-whitish, irregularly 

 maculate and flamed with brownish and chestnut; spire 

 ovate-conic, the apex rounded, suture subcrenate. Whorls 9, 

 a little convex, the upper minutely granulate-decussate, the 

 last two granulate at the suture, then rather distantly plicat- 

 ulate, the last whorl shorter than the spire, somewhat taper- 

 ing towards the base; columella slightly receding, obliquely 



