124 AURIS-GONYOSTOMUS. 



panded, rose colored; parietal callus and the weak columella fold, 

 white. 



Alt. 35, diam. 16 ; alt. of aperture 19 mill. 



Alt. 33, diam. 16* ; alt. of aperture 18 mill. 



Rio Janeiro, Brazil (J. G. Anthony); Macahe (Paz). 



Helix multicolor RANG, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1831, p. 55, pi. 3, f. 1. 

 Bulinus multicolor SOWB., Conch. Illustr., f. 89. KING, Zool. Journ., 

 v, p. 341. Bulimus multicolor PFR., Monogr., ii, p. 42 ; iii, 332 ; 

 Conchyl. Cab., p. 22, pi. 5, f. 3, 4. REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 39, f. 

 238 ; Conch. Syst, ii, pi. 174, f. 89. DESH. in Lam., AH. s. Vert, 

 viii, p. 239 ; and in Fer., Hist., p. 40, pi. 145, f. 1, 2. Gonyostomm 

 multicolor BECK, Index, p. 53. 



A well known shell, allied to A. hybrida, but rounded at base, 

 with more elaborate color pattern and finer, less pronounced granu- 

 lation. 



Var. MIERSII Sowerby. PI. 43, figs. 71, 72. 



Similar to A. multicolor, but slightly more slender, with the spire 

 higher, mouth proportionally shorter ; body-whorl corneous-brown in 

 the middle, purple-brown above and below, with the usual opaque- 

 white markings, the whorls of spire dark above, light below. Alt. 

 40J, diam. 19; alt. of aperture 22 mill. Sometimes smaller: alt. 

 34 mill., with the same proportions. 



Rio Janeiro, Brazil (Anthony, Paz). 



Bulinus miersii SOWB., Conch. Illustr., f. 90. Bulimus miersii 

 REEVE, Conch. Syst, ii, pi. 174, f. 90 (printed from Sowerby's 

 plate) ; Conch. Icon., pi. 39, f. 239. PFR., Conchyl. Cab., p. 146, 

 pi. 45, f. 20, 21 ; Monogr., iii, p. 333. DESH. in Fer., Hist. pi. 130, 

 f. 7, 8. B. multicolor var. PFR., Monogr., ii, p. 43. 



I see no sufficient grounds for separating this specifically from A. 

 multicolor. 



