STROPHOCHEILUS-BORUS. , 29 



S. OBLONGUS Miiller. PI. 14, figs. 70, 71, 72, 73. 



Shell ovate, conic and acuminate above, solid; sutures not very 

 oblique. Color dull isabelline or brownish under a very thin, decid- 

 uous brownish cuticle, usually in large part lost in adults. Whorls 

 5|-7. Nepionic shell of 4 ivhorls, very regularly and closely rib- 

 striate, the last one or two granulated ; post-nepionic growth over 2 

 whorls, more irregularly striated, last whorl not granulated, wrinkle- 

 striate. 



Aperture ovate, whitish within; peristome and parietal callus rose- 

 red. Outer lip regularly arched, reflexed ; columella slightly con- 

 cave, reflexed in a broad, projecting, thin-edged, strong callus, which 

 spreads above over the parietal wall. 



Alt. 100, diam. 59 mill, (average specimen). 



Alt. 132, diam. 76 mill, (specimen in coll. Johnson). 



Barbados, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad; Puerto Cabello, Vene- 

 zuela; Cucuta, Santa Ana, near Honda, New Granada; Mocamba, 

 Miobamba, Para, etc., Brazil (coll. Acad. Phila.) ; Central Paraguay 

 (Borelli) U. S. of Columbia, region of Muzo, at 600-800 meters ; 

 in the Magdalena valley, 500 meters ; and near Ibague in the moun- 

 tain region of Columbia, 1280 meters ; Puenta de Pandi, 779 meters ; 

 also on the Rio Tocantins near Baiao, N.-E. Brazil, 5 meters above 

 the sea (Stiibel) ; Corumba. Prov. Mattogrosso (Coll. Johnson) ; Santa 

 Anna Valley Peru (Angrand). Extends from New Granada and 

 Cayenne to Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay, as far west as the east- 

 ern slope of the Andes. 



Helix oblonga MULL., Hist. Vermium ii, p. 86, and of BORN, 

 GMELIX, DILLYWN. Bulimus oblongus BRUG., Encycl. Meth. i, p. 

 318. ORBIGXY, Voy. Am. Merid. p. 297. REEVE, C. Icon. f. 210. 

 PFR., Monogr. ii, p. 21 ; iii, 304; iv, 366 ; vi, 10; Conchyl. Cab. 

 pi. 22, f. 1, 2. DROUET, Moll. Guyan. Fr. p. 58, pi. 2, f. 25, 26 

 (egg and young). MART., Novit. Conch, v, p. 17 ; Conch. Mittheil. 

 i, p. 157 HEYNEMANN, Malak. Bl. 1868, p. 107, pi. 5, f. 7 (jaw and 

 teeth). SEMPER, Reisen, p. 150, pi. 14, f. 10; pi. 16, f. 25 ; pi. 17, 

 f. 1 (anatomy). PARAVICINI, Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. comp. 

 Univ. Torino, ix, no. 181, p. 5. Turbo hcemastomus GMEL., Syst. 

 Xat. p. 3596. Bulimus hcemastomus SCOPOLI Delic. Flor. et Faun. 

 Insub. p. 67, pi. 25, f. 1, 2 (probably). LEACH, Zool. Misc. i, pi. 29. 

 GUILD., Zool. Journ. ii, p. 440, suppl. pi. 16 bis, f. 1-4. KUSTER, 

 Conchyl. Cab. But., p. 5, pi. 1, f. 3, 4. TROSCHEL, Archiv f. Naturg. 

 1849, i, p. 227, pi. 4, f. 1. LESSON, Centurie Zoologique 1830, pi. 77. 



