ABYSSINIAN HOMORUS. 137 



Aperture piriform, acutely angular above; columella slightly 

 arcuate, horizontally and shortly truncate; outer lip unex- 

 panded, acute. Length 21, diam. 7, alt. aperture 7.5, width 

 4 rnm. ; penult, whorl 3.75 mm. high, 4 wide (Jick.). 



Northeast Africa: Between Genda and Asmara, prov. Ham- 

 aszen, Abyssinia, under bark of a dead candelabra Euphorbia. 



Stenogyra suaveolans JICK., Malak. Bl. 1873, p. 104; Reise- 

 bericht p. 38. Subulina suaveolans JICK., Moll. Nord-Ost-Afr. 

 p. 144, pi. 5, f. 28. BGT., Malak. Abyss, pp. 82, 121. Achat- 

 ina s., PFR., Monogr. viii, p. 291. Homorus s., KOBELT, C. 

 Cab. p. 103. 



The animal is fragrant. Jickeli placed the single speci- 

 men found, which was closed with a strong, thin, chalky, 

 flat epiphragm, in alcohol. When the epiphragm was broken 

 an agreeable odor, recalling oil of roses, poured out. As the 

 specimen was preserved in the same alcohol with other 

 Subulinas, the fragrance must have proceeded from the animal 

 itself, and not from the alcohol. Examples of ill-smelling 

 land snails are already known (see Martens, Nachrichtsblatt 

 Deutsch. Mai. Ges. 1871, p. 201). 



10. H. PERRIERIANUS (Bourguignat). PI. 58, fig. 49. 



Shell imperforate, elongate-subulate, rather solid, some- 

 what opaque, slightly shining, somewhat greenish corneous; 

 quite strongly striatulate except the first three whorls which 

 are paler and smooth. Spire long, subacuminate, obtuse at 

 the summit; apex obtuse, the embryonic whorl very minute. 

 Whorls 9, rather convex, slowly increasing, separated by an 

 impressed suture ; last whorl moderately rounded, one-fourth 

 the total length, a little descending in front. Aperture 

 oblique, subovate-rounded, milky within; peristome unex- 

 panded, acute, black-edged ; the terminations joined by a glossy 

 callous. Columella short, robust, strongly arcuate and 

 abruptly truncate at the base. Length 26, diam. 7, alt. aper- 

 ture 6.5 mm. (Bgt.) 



Northeast Africa: High plateau of Anderta, Abyssinia 



(Raffray). 



