234 DRYMJEUS, SOUTH AMERICAN. 



The color-pattern is very characteristic and seems unusually con- 

 stant in this species. 



D. FUCATUS Keeve. PI. 42, figs. 63-65. 



Shell perforate, ovate-acuminate, thin, smooth; buff or brownish, 

 ornamented with distant, somewhat lightning-zigzag blackish- chest- 

 nut streaks. Spire conic, the apex rather acute: whorls 6, a little 

 convex, the last about as long as the spire, somewhat compressed at 

 base, and roseate. Aperture oval, subeffuse ; peristome thin, broadly 

 expanded, rose-colored [or white] outside and within, the columellar 

 margin somewhat straightened, broadly reflexed above. Alt. 24, 

 diam. 10 mill. Aperture (measured inside) 11 mill, long, 6 wide. 



Ecuador : Sebundoi (Reeve) ; Mi. Nanegan (Bourcier) ; Lumaco 

 (Martinez) ; Nanegal, 1000-2000 meters alt. ; near San Florendo, 

 and on the way to Manabe, 1500 meters (Stu'bel). 



Bulimus fucatus REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 83, f. 615. PFR., Con- 

 chyl. Cab., p. 100, pi. 32, f. 9, 10 ; Monogr., iii, p. 330. HIDALGO, 

 Journ. de Conchyl., 1875, p. 131. Dry mceus fucatus DOHRN, Jahrb. 

 D. M. Ges., vii, 1880, p. 88. Otostomus (Drymceus} fucatus MAR- 

 TENS, Conchol. Mittheil., p. 160 ; Biol. Centrali Amer., Moll., p. 251. 



Somewhat allied to D. similaris. It has been erroneously attrib- 

 uted to Mexico and Colombia. 



D. ^STIVUS (Pfeiffer). 



Shell umbilicated, oblong-turrited, rather solid, irregularly stri- 

 ated, whitish ; spire long, a little convexly conic, rather acute. 

 Whorls 6, moderately convex, the last about three-sevenths the total 

 alt., slightly attenuated at base. Columella somewhat receding. 

 Aperture a little oblique, acuminate-oval ; peristome thin, the right 

 margin narrowly expanded, columellar margin dilated, vaulted, re- 

 flexed. Alt. 17, diam. 7i mill. ; aperture 71 mill, long, 4 wide. 



(flfr-).- 



Moyobamba, Peru (Gueinzius, in Cuming coll.). 

 Bulimus cestivus PFR., P. Z. S., 1856, p. 331 ; Monogr., iv, p. 409. 



D. GEOMETRICUS (Pfeiffer). PI. 43, figs. 82, 83, 84, 85, 86. 



Shell rimate-umbilicate, ovate-turrited, solid. Color either (1) 

 uniform white, or (2) white with festooned purplish streaks, more or 

 less united by two or three spiral bands, or (3^ with the streaks 



