196 DRYM^US, SOUTH AMERICAN. 



columellar margin much dilated, slightly vaulted, spreading. Alt. 

 34, diam. 17, the aperture (inside) 16 mill, long, 8? wide (P/K). 



Habitat unknown. 



Bulimus schmidti PFR., Malak. Blatter, i, 1854, p. 65 ; v, 1858, p. 

 166; Monogr., iv, p. 396. B. (Scutalus) schmidti PFR.-CLESS.,. 

 Nomencl. Hel. Viv., v. 249. Bulimus coarctatus REEVE, Conch. 

 Icon., pi. 41, f. 260. Not B. coarctatus Pfr. 



Very like coarctatus in form, but widely differing in sculpture, 

 and especially in the aperture, which is not contracted, the peristome 

 not thickened within nor sinuous (Pfr.). 



Reeve's figure, here copied, which is said by Pfeiffer to represent 

 his schmidti and not coarctatus, shows a different color pattern from 

 that described by Pfeiffer, being u white, encircled round the upper 

 part with brown black interrupted lines, round the lower with bands, 

 lip ivory white 1 " 



D. XANTHOSTOMA (d'Orbigny). PI. 36, figs, 52, 53. 



Shell lengthened, umbilicate, thick, smooth at the summit, per- 

 ceptibly rugose on the later whorls ; general color roseate, violaceous 

 or yellowish-white, ornamented with broad longitudinal brown flam- 

 mules, which are irregular, festooned, being enlarged in three places, 

 forming indications of three spiral bands ; sometimes only clouded 

 with purple-brown. Spire long, conic, the apex obtuse, black or 

 rose colored ; whorls 7, wide, strongly convex, separated by deep 

 subcrenulated sutures. 



Aperture very large, oblong ; peristome wide, flat, much spreading 

 but not recurved, bright yellow, generally with a violet tint within 

 (Orb.-). 



Alt. 46, diam. 17 mill. (Orb.). 



Alt. 39, diam. 14 mill. (Pfr.). 



Northeastern slope of the eastern Cordillera of Bolivia, in the prov- 

 ince of Yungas on the ridge between the villages Circuata and Car- 

 cuata ; also near Tutulima, north of Cochabamba (Orb.) ; SantaCruz 

 de la Sierra (Germain). 



Helix xanthostoma ORB., Mag. de Zool., 1835, p. 18. Bulimus 

 xanthostoma ORB., Voy. Amer. Merid., p. 312, pi. 40, f. 1,2. PFR., 

 Monogr., ii, p. 58; iii, 330; iv, 389; vi, 35. ? REEVE, Conch. 

 Icon., pi. 43, f. 271. Bulimulus xanthostoma BECK, Index Moll., p. 

 64. Bulimulus xanthostomus ANOEY, Journ. of Conch. (Leeds), vii,, 

 p. 92. 



