PRYMJLUS, WEST INDIES. 15 



crowded, spiral incised lines. Spire rather long, somewhat slender, 

 the apex somewhat obtuse, with typical Drymtzus sculpture, several 

 earlier whorls black or blackish. Whorls about 6, somewhat convex, 

 the sutures rather impressed, defined by a white line. 



Aperture short ovate, rather oblique, banded within ; outer lip 

 thin, a trifle expanded ; columella somewhat concave, its edge re- 

 flexed above and impressed at the insertion ; the peristome not angular 

 at juncture of columellar with basal margins. 



Alt. 25, diam. 12, length of aperture 10^ mill. 



Alt. 23, diam. 12, length of aperture 10 mill. 



Martinique, at Fort de France, and Massif des Pitons, living 

 mainly between 100 and 150 meters alt., on leaves of trees. Guade- 

 loupe, numerous localities between 375 and 610 meters above the sea 

 (Maze). Dominica (Angas, Brown, Ramage). 



BuUmu? multifasciatus LAMARCK, An. s. Vert, vi, p. 123 (1819) ; 



Edit. Desh. viii, p. 233. DELESSERT, Recueil, pi. 28, f. 3 



REEVE, Conch. Icon. pi. 46, f. 295. PFR., Monogr. ii, p. 108 ; iii, 

 343 ; iv, 406 ; vi, 52 ; vii, 66.; Conchyl. Cab. p. 239, pi. 63, f. 11, 

 12. Bulimus (Leiostracus) multifasciatus E. A. SMITH, Ann. Mag. 

 N. H. (6), ii, p. 230, 419. Balimulus multifasciatus BECK, Index, 



p. 65 MAZE, Jour, de Conchyl. 1874, p. 163, with var. albicans ; 



also 1883, p. 16. 



/ Liostracus multifasciatus FFLD., Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xix, 1869, p. 874. 



Helix (Cochlogena) pictnrata FER., Prodr. p. 54, no. 400 Buli- 

 mus picturatus POT. and MICH., Galerie, i, p. 147 (1838). 



The crimson zones between bands ii and iii, and iv and v remind one 

 of some forms of D. pcecilus Orb. In some Martinique shells bands 

 ii and iii are coalescent, and this is perhaps invariable in Dominica 

 specimens. 



Besides the localities recorded above, the species has been re- 

 ported from Trinidad, Cayenne and La Guayra. The continental 

 localities are so doubtful and ill-attested that I wholly discredit them. 

 Lamarck's t} pes probably come from Martinique, as they agree per- 

 fectly with specimens from that island. 



The Guadeloupe form, according to Maze, is quite different from 

 that of Martinique, and is distinguished by a thin, fragile shell, of a 

 beautiful light golden-yellow, with numerous transverse bands of vio- 

 laceous brown on the last three whorls. Whorls 6^. Some specimens 



