ANOMA. 19 



Group of A. splendens. 



The shell tapers towards both ends, and is smooth and 

 glossy, except for some extremely fine striation on the latter 

 part of the last whorl. Aperture oblique, decidedly longer 

 than wide. 



12. A. LEVIS (C. B. Adams). 



Somewhat fusiform shells, smooth except for some striation 

 back of the lip, usually with one or two dark bands on the 

 opaque-white ground of the back of the last whorl. Keel 

 moderately strong, but short. Aperture oblong. A number 

 of races inhabiting central and western Jamaica are grouped 

 under the above specific name merely to show their close re- 

 lationship to one another, and to segregate them from the 

 splendens group of varieties which form a similar assemblage. 

 The two groups are very closely related ; but, in general, levis 

 is less fusiform th'an splendens, has a larger aperture and 

 wider lip. 



Typical A. levis. PL 19, figs. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37. 



" Shell robust, but rather thin; livid black in the upper 

 whorls, pale livid brown along the middle, anteriorly with a 

 rapidly widening pure white stripe, which unites behind the 

 lip with a broad transverse white stripe that runs through a 

 large triangular black spot; lip white; without striae. Some 

 pale specimens have a tinge of red along the middle. In- 

 habits Kilmarnock, in the east part of Westmoreland. In an- 

 other part of Westmoreland is a subvariety in which the form 

 is less robust, the anterior white stripe is larger and tinged 

 with yellow, and the transverse white stripe, being interrupted 

 by the black spot, appears more like a short spiral stripe ; the 

 lip is rather less reflected, and the aperture smaller and more 

 oblique " (C. B. Ad.). 



Western Jamaica: Kilmarnock (C. B. Ad.) and water-wheel 

 between Savanna-la-Mar and Bluefields, and at Little London 

 (P. W Jarvis), all in Westmoreland. 



Cyl. maugeri var. levis C. B. A., Contrib. no. 9, p. 162. C. 

 maugeri DESK, in Fer., Hist, pi. 164, f . 33. 



