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prominence of the fold-like sculpture. Four specimens before me 

 collected by Morelet have three broad, continuous or interrupted, 

 dark purple-brown bands (fig. 64). 



D. AURIFLUUS (Pfeiffer). PL 1, figs. 86, 87. 



Shell subperforate, ovate-conic, thin, pale whitish corneous, with 

 numerous longitudinal brown streaks alternating with white ones of 

 the same width or wider; surface glossy, nearly smooth, with faint 

 growth-lines and extremely fine, close superficial spiral striae. Spire 

 conic, whorls 5J, slightly convex, the last tapering below. 



Aperture long-ovate, striped within ; peristome thin, acute and not 

 expanded ; columellar margin with a short, narrow reflection above. 



Alt. 201, diam. 10^, length of aperture llf mill. 



E.Mexico: Jalapa (Hoge); Mirador (Berendt); Cordova (Salle, 

 Hoge); Plantation Toxpa (Tospan) near Cordova (Berendt). S. 

 Mexico: Yalalag, near Villa Alta in the Stale of Oaxaca, on the 

 eastern slope of the Cordillera, in dense forest (Hoge) ; Juquila, 

 State of Oaxaca (Hoge). 



Bulimus aurifluus PFR. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 319, pi. 35, fig. 10; 

 Monogr. Helic. Vivent. iv, p. 400 ; Novitat. Conch, iii, p. 420, pi. 

 95, figs. 13, 14 Bulimulus (Mormus) auriflum, MART in Albers 

 Die Helic. ed. 2, p. 216. Bulimulus (Drymceus} aurifluus FISCH. 

 & CROSSE, Miss. Scient. Mex., Mollusca, i, p. 499, pi. 20, figs. 21, 

 22. Bulimulus aurifluus STREBEL, Beitr. Mex. Land- und Su'ssw.- 

 Conch. iv, pi. 6, fig. 14; v, p. 79 Otostomus aurifluus MART., 

 Biologia, p. 213. 



'At first sight this species much resembles 0. jonasi; in 0. auri- 

 foms, however, the yellow stripes are on the same level as the whit- 

 ish ground, whereas in 0. jonasi the pale brown stripes are placed in 

 depressions between the elevated whitish plaits. The edge of the 

 aperture is also distinctly expanded in 0. aurifluus, but only in full- 

 grown specimens. The locality, 'Vera Cruz,' quoted by Dr. Pfeiffer, 

 is probably intended for the State of that name, not the town." 

 (Martens.^ 



D. RECLUZIANUS (Pfeiffer). PI. 1, figs. 92, 93, 94, 95. 



Shell subperforate, subfusiform-oblong, rather smooth, delicately 

 sculptured with close spiral lines; shining, opaque, flesh- colored, 

 ornamented with wide, irregular chestnut and grayish-purple streaks. 



