G^KOTIS. 227 



Helix ( Cochloliydra] angularis FER., Prodr. p. 27; Hist. p. 11 A, 

 f. 5. Vitrina angularis GRAY, Ann. of Pliilos., 1825, ix, p. 415. 

 PFR., Monogr. ii, p. 512. Succinea angularis PFR., Symbolae, ii, 

 p. 131 Simpulopsis angulaiis BECK, Index, p. 100. PFR., 

 Monogr. v, p. 22. 



Locality uncertain ; and the species has not been rediscovered by 

 post-Ferussacian conchologists. 



SIMPULOPSIS COLMEIROI Hid., Miller, Mai. Bl. xxv, 187, is a 

 Drynueut. See Manual, vol. xi, p. 316. 



S. MASTERSI Brazier (P. Z. S., 1872, p. 619; Lord Howe's 

 Island), is a Flammulina. See Man. Condi, ix, p. 18, and viii, p. 

 294; Rec. Austr. Mus. i, 1891, p. 140. 



S. FULGURATA Miller. PI. 63, figs. 73, 74. 



Shell succinoid, imperforate, very thin, shining, striate and de- 

 cussated by very minute elevated lines ; tawny, ornamented with 

 oblique brown streaks, zigzagged above ; spire short, conic, the apex 

 obtuse ; whorls 3^, planulate, the first two rudely punctate, the last 

 ventricose, forming two-thirds the entire alt. Columella simple, 

 strongly twisted, visible within to the apex, spirally ascending ; ar- 

 cuately passing into the basal lip. Aperture very oblique, oval, 

 angular above; peristome simple, acute. Length 18, diam. 13, 

 aperture 14 mill, long, 10 wide (Miller.} 



Pilaton Valley, Ecuador, in woods in the very moist region, on 

 leaves, over 1000 meters elevation (Boetzkes). 



S. fulgurata MILL., Malak. Blatter, xxv, 1878, p. 187; (n. F.) 

 i, pp. 185, 201, pi. 6, f. 6, a, b. Of. DOHRN, Jahrb. D. M. Ges. 

 1879, p. 188. 



Dohrn has already referred this supposed species to Eurytus. It 

 is undoubtedly the young of some lightning-streaked species of that 

 group. 



Genus G^OTIS Shuttleworth, 1854. 



Gceotis SHUTTL., Mittheil. der naturforsch. Gesell. in Bern, 1854, 

 p. 34. PFEIFFER, Monogr. Hel. Yivent. v, p. 10 (1868). BINNEY 

 & BLAND, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist, of N. Y., x, p. 252 (jaw and denti- 

 tion). W. G. BINNKY, Ann. N. Y. Arad. Sci. iii, p. 11(> (jaw and 

 dentition). 



Animal large, depressed, wiih very broadly dilated, flattened foot . 



