42 ACHATINA, EAST AFRICA. 



1899, p. 589, pi. 34, f. 1 (small form from Zomba) . STUK- 

 ANY, Catal. SMaf. Moll., in Denkschr. K. Akad. -Wissensch., 

 Ixvii, 1898, p. 56 (592). MARTENS u. WIEGMANN, Land und 

 Siisswasser-Moll. der Seychellen, in Mittheil. aus der Zoolo- 

 gischen Sammlung des Mus. f. Naturkunde in Berlin, i, p. 

 22 (shell), pp. 85-92, pi. 4, f. 5, 6 (anatomy). MARTENS in 

 Mobius' Reise nach Mauritius, Beitr. zur Meeresfauna Maurit, 

 etc., p. 198 (references to occurrence on Mauritius). ANCEY, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr., vii, 219 (Shire R., 3 kilo, from S. end 

 Nyasa, Mgr. Lechaptois).. Achatinus MONTP., Conch. Syst., 

 ii, p. 418 (fig. only). ? A. zebra var. eburnoides PPR., see 

 below. Achatina pantherina Fer., NEVILL, Handlist Moll. 

 Ind. Mus., i, p. 145, no. 4. 



Achatina lamarckiana PFR., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1846, p. 115 \ 

 Monogr., ii, p. 253 ; iii, 483 ; iv, 601 ; vi, 213. Achatina mos- 

 sambica BRANCSIK, 1892-3, Jahresheft des Naturwissenschaft- 

 lichen Vereines des Trencsener Comitates, xv, p. 116, pi. 6, 

 f. 2, 2a, 2b (genitalia, teeth and jaw), pi. 10, f. 2a, 2b (epi- 

 phragm). Achatina lechaptoisi ANCEY, Mem. Soc. Zool. de 

 France, vii, p. 220 (1894). 



Typical panthera as figured by Ferussac is a solid, heavy 

 shell, marbled and streaked in large pattern on a whitish 

 ground, and with the columella and parietal wall pink or 

 rose, the interior pale blue. PL 38, fig. 31, is a copy of 

 Ferussac 's type figure. 



PL 39, fig. 32, represents a shorter specimen received from 

 Robillard as from Madagascar. This agrees essentially with 

 Pfeiffer's A. lamarckiana, described as from Madagascar; 

 but the form known to be from Mozambique is also similar, 

 and it seems likely that the solid, ventricose form is wide- 

 spread on the calcareous islets and shore. Pfeiffer, at the 

 time he described lamarckiana, supposed panthera to be a 

 form with white columellar margin. 



Brancsik has described the form from the island of Mozam- 

 bique, similar to Reeve's pi. 3, f. 12, and to my pi. 39, fig. 32, 

 as a new species, under the name A. mossambica. His types 

 measure 168 mm. long, aperture 95 mm. to 137, apert.-83 mm. 

 It is stated to differ from A. panthera by the very ventricose 



