6(> ACHATINA, EAST AFRICA. 



59. A. CBAVENI E. A. Smith. PL 7, figs. 16, 17, 18. 



"Shell elongate ovate, somewhat acuminate above, beneath 

 a yellowish epidermis white, ornamented with suberect, 

 slightly wavy, brown stripes. Whorls 8-9, rather convex, 

 rather coarsely granosely sculptured; suture between upper 

 whorls horizontal, between two last more oblique; last whorl 

 descending, smoother upon the lower part. Aperture sub- 

 pyriform, bluish- white, occupying less than half the shell. 

 Columella not much arcuated, whitish, rather abruptly trun- 

 cated, connected with the upper extremity of the outer lip 

 by a thin callosity. Length 81 millims., diam. 37; aperture 

 39 long, 20 wide" (Smith). 



Between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika (Kirk), and on 

 Tanganyika (Bohm et al.) ; Ufipa and M'bwe countries, 

 south of Tanganyika (Lechaptois). Matangisi in Ugogo 

 (Emm Pasha) ; Massai-steppe, northeast from Ussandami 

 (Langfeld) ; Nyika plateau, 6,000-7,000 ft, and Malosa, 

 Nyasaland, 6,000 ft. (Johnston) ; Tumbatu, a small island 

 near Zanzibar ( Stuhlmann) . 



A. kirkii SMITH, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1880, vi, p. 428 

 (December, 1880). Not A. kirkii Craven, 1880, a species of 

 Pseudoglessula. A. craveni SM., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1881, p. 283, pi. 33, f. 11; P. Z. S., 1899, p. 590, pi. 35, f. 

 1, 2. CROSSE, Journ. de Conchyl., xxix, 1881, p. 298. 

 MARTENS, Sitzungsber d. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1891, p. 14; 

 Beschalte Weichthiere, p. 91. ANCEY, Journ. de Conch., 

 1902, p. 277, fig. 5. 



"The granose surface of this species is the result of the 

 coarse raised lines of growth being crossed by transverse 

 impressed striae, which being somewhat remote from one an- 

 other cause the granules to assume a rather elongate form. 

 Mr. Alfred E. Craven informs me that the distinguished 

 name of Dr. Kirk has already last year been associated with 

 a species of this genus. Such being the case, I am com- 

 pelled to alter the designation originally applied to this 

 species; and therefore I have much pleasure in substituting 

 that of A. craveni" (Smith). 



The specimens from Nyasaland "are rather more coarsely 



