BULIMULUS-ANTILLEAN. 45 



Bulimus Iherminieri FISCHER, Journ. de Conch., v (2d ser., i), 

 April, 1857, p. 355, pi. 12, f. 6, 7. PFR., Monogr., iv, p. 39y. 

 Bulimulus Iherminieri MAZE, Journ. de Conch., 1883, p. 17. 



" A very rare species which to this time has been met with only 

 on the leaves of the large Bromeliacete of the mountains (Bromelia 

 pinguin L.), and on one occasion, at the margin of the great wood 

 on the lower branches of one of the great forest trees. 



" The shell is, as Fischer has described it, thin, shining, corneous, 

 traversed horizontally by salient growth-strise and marked with quite 

 closely placed whitish dots, which become effaced with age, and 

 finally almost wholly disappear. In life the shell is a beautiful red- 

 dish-brown, which changes to clear fawn after the death of the ani- 

 mal. 



" The largest specimen collected measures 27 mill, long, 11 \ wide ; 

 aperture 13 mill, long, 8? wide." 



It is extremely rare, according to Maze, from whom the above 

 notes are taken. 

 B. HOUELMONTENSIS Crosse. PL 9, figs. 45, 46. 



Shell slightly rimate, oblong-elongate, scarcely shining, thin, 

 translucent, of a pale chestnut color ; spire moderately raised, the 

 apex rather obtuse ; suture impressed. Whorls 6, but slightly con- 

 vex, the last about as long as the spire, attenuately rounded at base. 



Aperture angulate-subovate, rather shining inside, colored like 

 the exterior ; peristome simple, the margins separated, columellar 

 margin dilated, whitish-chestnut, nearly closing the umbilical 

 chink ; basal and outer margins rather acute. Alt. 15, diam. 7 

 mill.; alt. of aperture 7 mill. (Crosse). 



Guadelupe, at Vieux-Fort, on the flank of Houelmont, 586 meters 

 alt., under leaf rubbish (Bavay, Marie) ; also in the Saintes at Mar- 

 igot, high land, under stones (Marie). 



Bulimulus houelmontensis CROSSE, MS. in Maze's Catal. Moll. 

 terr. et fluv. Guad., Journ de Conch., xxxi, 1883, p. 19, pi. 1, f. 6; 

 t. c. p. 43. 



A slightly shorter specimen before me, collected by E. Marie, 

 measures, alt. 14, diam. 7, alt. of aperture 7 mill. The surface 

 shows very faint traces of fine, close epidermal spirals, as in diaph- 

 anus and other species of this immediate group. It is distinguished 

 from others by the general proportions, aperture and diameter half 

 the length of shell. The apex, as in diaphanus, has a densely 

 punctate-reticulate sculpture. 



