116 OXYSTTLA, MEXICO, ETC. 



Var. crossei Martens. PI. 17, fig. 12. 



Subelongate-conic, the whorls less convex, with numerous narrower 

 stripes. Alt. 54, diam. 30, aperture 28 mill. 



Belize, British Honduras (Bocourt, Parsons); Costa Rica (van 

 Patten). 



0. princeps var. y CROSSE & FISCHER, Miss. Scient. Mex., Moll., 

 p. 455, pi. 18, f. 2 c. 0. zoniferus var. crossei MARTENS, Biol. Centr. 

 pp. 180, 186. 



Fig. 8 of pi. 16 shows a specimen somewhat transitional between 

 princeps and this variety. 

 Var. fischeri Martens. PL 16, fig. 9. 



Tawny, with numerous slightly darker streaks which are but little 

 undulated; apex with minute brown dot; peristome narrowly brown- 

 edged, the parietal callus brown. Alt. 55, diam. 33, length of aper- 

 ture 30 mill. (Martens.} 



El Reposa and San Isidro, near Mazatenango, western Guatemala 

 (Champion). 



Ortalichus princeps var. jischeri MARTENS, Biol. Centr. Amer., 

 pp. 180, 183, pi. 10, f. 7 (exclusive of synonymy). 



Var DECEPTOR, n. v. PI. 24, figs. 19-25. 



Form and size about as in obductus ; general color -tone paler, the 

 ground purplish, olivaceous-yellow or pale fawn, mottled in indistinct 

 pattern with dusky purplish or pale olive-brown streaks and clouds? 

 and with the peripheral band (or three bands) developed as series of 

 oblong blackish spots alternating with light buff spots. Spire with 

 whitish ground, irregular, often sparse flames, and two brown bands, 

 one median, the other super-sutural. Varices few. Sculpture of 

 0. princeps. Columella long and straight. 



Alt. 67, diam. 40, longest axis of aperture 38J mill. 



Alt. 49, diam. 30, longest axis of aperture 28^ mill. 



British Honduras : Belize, in the woods (Bocourt). N. Guate- 

 mala : Coban (Sarg). Central Guatemala: San Geronimo (Cham- 

 pion) Polvon, Nicaragua, (MacNiel); Panama (Cuming) ; Islands in 

 the Bay of Panama (MacNiel). 



Orthalicus obductus FISCHER & CROSSE, Miss Scient. Mex., Mol- 

 lusca, i, p. 456 (exclusive of South American references and locali- 

 ties) BINNEY, Ann. Lye. N. York, xi, 1874, p. 37, pi. 6, f. iii, and 



Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. iii, p. 128, pi. 12, f. B. (radula) STREBEL, 



