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light zigzag streaks ; apex purplish. Surface of body-whorl shining, 

 with indistinct, irregular growth-marks, often some low, hardly 

 noticeable spiral cords, and under a strong lens seen to be finely and 

 densely, but obsoletely granulated. Whorls of the spire peculiarly 

 pitted throughout, and shortly plicate or puckered below the sutures. 

 Whorls about 5?, the apex obtuse, generally entire; suture gener- 

 ally edged by a white line. 



Aperture half the shell's length or less, dark brownish inside ; 

 peristome brown, very broadly reflexed and recurved, moderately thick 

 and rounded on the face. Columella deeply entering, nearly straight 

 above; parietal callus transparent. 



Alt. 80, diam. 38, alt of aperture 40 mill. 



Alt. 82, diam. 41, alt. of aperture 42 mill. 



Alt. 89, diam. 38, alt. of aperture 40 mill. 



Mts. of Caripe, near the cavern of Guacharos, prov. Cumana, Ven- 

 ezuela (Funck). 



Bulimusfunckii NYST. Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, i, (1843), p. 262, 

 pi. 7, f. 2 ; Bull, de 1' Acad. Roy. Brux. xii, (2), p. 146, pi. 1, f. 1 

 (1845). PHIL., Abbild.ii, p. 9, pi. 3, f. 1. REEVE, C. Icon. pi. 28, 

 f. 171. DESH. in Fer. Hist. p. 51. pi. 138, f. 13, 14. PFR., Monogr. 

 ii, p. 36 ; vi, 24 ; Conchyl. Cab. p. 185, pi. 55, f. 1-4. B. superbus 

 JONAS, Zeitschr. f. Malak. 1844, p. 35 ; Molluskologische Beitrage, 

 p. 24, pi. 11, f. IS.B. adoptus REEVE, C. Icon. pi. 82, f. 608. 



The narrow form, heavy lip and shallow pit sculpture of the early 

 whorls are characteristic. Reeve has called a light-lipped form B. 

 adoptus. It may perhaps prove varietally distinguishable (fig. 35). 



Subgenus THAUMASTUS Albers, 1860. 



Thaumatus ALBERS, ms. in Die Hel. edit. Martens, p. 215, type 

 Bulimus liartwegi Pfr. Orphnus ALBERS, Die Hel. 1850, p. 146. 

 -MART., in Die Hel. 1860, p. 193, type Bulimus taunaysii Fer. 

 Not Orphnus Macleay, 1819 (Coleoptera), nor Orphnus Lef. 1842 

 (Xeuroptera). Tatutor JOUSSEAUME Le Naturaliste ix, 1887, p. 6, 

 type T. tatutor Jouss. 



Shell long-ovate, with lengthened spire and blunt apex ; moder- 

 ately solid, opaque, usually streaked or banded ; aperture small, less 

 than half the shell's length, ovate, the outer lip blunt, not expanded ; 

 columella short, reflexed, with a rather weak fold or none. Type 

 S. hartwegi Pfr. 



