24 DRYM^EUS, WEST INDIES. 



Aperture ovate, ochre, red or brown inside, slightly oblique, gen- 

 erally less than half the shell's length ; outer lip thickened within, a 

 trifle expanded at the edge; columella subvertical, generally brown, 

 often white. 



Alt. 30, diam. 13^, alt. aperture 15 mill. (Porto Rico.) 

 Alt. 30, diam. 12, alt. aperture 13 mill. (Porto Rico.) 

 Alt. 26, dia'm. 12J, alt. aperture 14 mill. (Porto Rico.) 

 Alt. 27 -J, diam. 14, alt. aperture 14 mill. (Anageda.) 

 Alt. 27, diam. 12^, alt. aperture 12 mill. (Anageda.) 

 Alt. 26, diam. 11J, alt. aperture 11^ mill. (S. Eustatius.) 

 Alt. 31, diam. 13^, alt. aperture 15 mill, (extinctus.) 

 Alt. 23, diam. 9, alt. aperture 10 mill. (S. Croix.) 

 Alt. 33, diam. 14J, alt. aperture 15 mill. (S. Croix.) 

 Porto Rico, Virgin Is. and Northern Caribbean Is., Curasao and 

 Bonaire. Porto Rico : Fojardo and Ceibo (Blauner) ; Manati, Are- 

 cibo, Quebradillas Guanica, Utuado (Gundlach) ; Penuelas (Sinten- 

 sis) San Juan (Swift). Vieque (Blauner, Swift). Anageda (Cleve). 

 Tortola (Swift). St. Thomas (Bland, " hills about Baker's," Swift). 

 St. John (Bland, Swift). St. Croix, Recovery Hill (Riise). St. 

 Martins, on the mountains (Swift); Simson Bay (Kohlmann, Van 

 Rijersma). St. Bartholomew (Dr. Cleve). St. Eustatius (F. Ober, 

 John E. Hill). Antigua (Rev. A. Hamilton). Gaudeloupe (Beau, 

 Schramm, Bland). Bonaire (Bland). Oruba (Hartert). Curacao 

 (Raven). Doubtful localities: Martinique (Bid. in coll. A. N. S.). 

 Caracas, Venezuela (Ernst). 



Typical Form. 



Helix elongata BOLTEN, Mus. Boltenianum, p. 107, no. 1371, based 

 upon Chemnitz, ix, pi. 134, f. 1225a (1798). Bulimus elonc/atus 

 Bolt., PFR., Monogr. iv, p. 482; vi, 128; viii, 165. Bulimulus 

 elongatus E. A. SMITH, Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond. iii, p. 113. Helix 

 (Cochloaena) virgulata FERUSSAC, Tabl. Syst., p. 54, no. 396 (1822); 

 Histoire, pi. 142 B, f. 1-7. Bulimus virgulatus MENKE, Syn., 



edit. 2, p. 27 POT. & MICH., Galerie i, p. 132, pi. 12, f. 7, 8 



(young). PFEIFFER, Monogr. ii, p. 202 ; iii, 421 ; Conchol. Cab., 

 p. 161, pi. 46, f. 9, 10. DESH. in Fer., Hist, ii, p. 91, pi. 150, f. 7, 

 8. REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 49, f. 320. SHUTTLEWORTH, Diag- 

 nosen neuer Moll., no. 6, Bern Mittheil., 1854, p. 136. BLAND in 

 Adams' Contrib. to Conch., no. 11, p. 220 (1852) Bulimulus vir- 



