PLACOSTYLUS, FLU IS. Ill 



Aperture ovate, white or brown-tinted inside; peristome white, 

 well reflexed, the columellar margin dilated, encroaching upon the 

 parietal wall ; columella with a moderate or strong and heavily cal- 

 loused fold above. 



Length 51, diam. 25 ; longest axis of aperture 33 mill. 



Length 42, diam. 20^ ; longest axis of aperture 27J mill. 



Viti Levu and Ovalau Is., Viti group, on trunks and foliage of trees 

 (Garrett). 



Plekocheilus gracilis BROD., P. Z. S., 1840, p. \%Z. Bulimus ful- 

 guratus JAY, Revue Zool., 1842, p. 80 ; Guerin's Mag. de Zool., 1843, 



pi. G2 PHILIPPI, Abbild. u. Beschreib. neuer Conch., ii, p. 10, 



pi. 3, f. 2. PFR., Monogr., ii, p. 55 ; iii, 316 ; iv, 378 ; vi, 23 ; viii, 

 34. REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 29, f. 175. GLD., U. S. Expl. Exped., 

 p. 80, fig. 77. Mouss., J. de Conchyl., 1865, p. 195. CROSSE, J. 

 de Conchyl., 1864, p. 137; 1875, p. 17. GARRETT, Amer. Journ. 

 of Conch., 1872, p. 231, pi. 18, f. 1 Placostylus fulguratus Mous- 

 SON, J. de Conchyl., 1870, p. 125 SCHMELTZ j Catal. Mus. Godef- 

 froy v, p. 92. GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 180. KOBELT, Con- 

 chyl. Cab., p. 60, pi. 14, f. 4, 5, 6 Charis fulguratus FFLD., Verh. 

 Zool. -hot. Ges. Wien, 1869, p. 874. Otostomus fulguratus SEMPER, 

 Reisen im Archip. Phil., Landmoll., p. 158, pi. 17, f. 10 (teeth). 

 Bulimus eximius REEVE, Conch. System, ii, p. 81, pi. 173, f. 2 

 (1842). 



Bulimus crossilabrum GARRETT, Amer. Jour. Conch., vii, 1872, 

 p. 233, pi. 18, f. 5 PFR., Monogr., viii, p. 35. CROSSE, J. de 

 Conchyl., 1875, p. 18. Placostylus crassilabrum SCHMELTZ, Catal. 



Mus. Godeffroy v, p. 93 KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., p. 61, pi. 14, f. 7, 



8. Placostylus rugatus var. crassilabris GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, 

 p. 183. 



Bulimus rugatus GARRETT, Amer. Journ. Conch, vii, 1872, p. 234, 

 pi. 18, f. 6. CROSSE, J. de C., 1875, p. 18. PFR., Monogr., viii, 

 p. 35 Placostylus rugatus SCHMELTZ, Catal. Mus. Godeffroy, vi, 

 p. 81 KOBELT, Conchyl. Cab., p. 126, pi. 31, f. 4, and var. minor, 



f. 5, 6. GARRETT, P. Z. S., 1887, p. 183 P. vugatus PFR.-CLESS., 



Nomencl. Hel. Viv., 1878, p. 217. 



This was the first Vitian Placostylus to be described ; and as the 

 name gracilis is pre-occupied in neither Plekocheilus or Placostylus, 

 the propriety of restoring it will be apparent. 



The spiral corrugation, while varying a good deal in degree of 



