PLACOSTYLUS, FIJI IS. 105 



P. HOYTI (Garrett). PI. 42, figs. 85-88. 



Shell umbilicate or compressed umbilicate, obese-ovate, rather 

 solid ; flesh-pink under a thin and partly deciduous yellowish cuticle, 

 copiously zigzag-streaked with dark green or olive- green ; Ttie 

 spire nude, red or orange-red. Surface marked with growth lines 

 and densely, finely corrugated spirally. Spire short, the apex obtuse, 

 early whorls punctate. Whorls 4f, the last one inflated. 



Aperture large, ovate, yellowish inside ; peristome broadly ex- 

 panded, reflexed, pale-edged, orange-red within ; columellar margin 

 broadly dilated above, orange-red ; columella with a strong spiral 

 fold above. Parietal callus moderate, orange red. 



Alt. 51, diam. 28; length of aperture 40 mill. 



Alt. 56, diam. 30; length of aperture 41 mill. 



Alt. 45, diam. 24 ; length of aperture 29 J mill. 



Vanua Levu, southward of Natawa Bay ; terrestrial (Garrett). 



Bulimus hoyti GARRETT, Amer. Journ. of Conch, vii, p. 234, pi. 

 18, f. 7 (1872) PFR., Monogr. viii, p. 30. CROSSE, Journ. de 



Conchyl. 1875, p. 17, pi. 1, f. 8 Placostylas hoyti SCHMELTZ, Mus. 



Godeffroy Catal. vi, p. 81 GARRETT, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 182. 



KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab. p. 79, pi. 19, f. 1, 2. 



Readily distinguished from P. elobatus by its short, obese form, 

 large aperture and expanded lip. 



P. ELOBATUS (Gould). PI. 43, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



Shell perforate or umbilicate, long-ovate, moderately solid ; yellow 

 or reddish-yellow, with irregular, often interrupted green or olive 

 stripes and spots ; the spire denuded of cuticle, flesh-colored, yellow- 

 ish or white. Surface rather dull, sculptured with slight growth- 

 lines and a dense conspicuous spiral corrugation, the wrinkles oblique 

 above, often anastomosing. Apex obtuse, 2^ early whorls pitted 

 when not eroded. Whorls 5 to 5^, slightly convex, the last moder- 

 ately inflated, tapering below. 



Aperture oblong, typically reddish-yellow inside, becoming orange 

 toward the peristome, which is pale-edged, blunt, and a trifle ex- 

 panded ; columella obliquely folded above, a spiral callous ridge of 

 whitish color being superposed in old shells ; the cokimellar margin 

 dilated above ; parietal callus thin and transparent. 



Alt. 59, diam. 27; longest axis of aperture 33 mm. 



