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weakly convex above, more strongly so below, the last with a 

 short, strong basal keel. Aperture vertical, oblong, angular 

 at the base, the peristome expanded and reflexed, very shortly 

 free from the preceding whorl above. Axis thin and simple, 

 slightly spiral in the later whorls. 



Length 26, diam. 4 mm., whorls remaining 8%. 



Length 29.5, diam. 4 mm., whorls remaining 12. 



Length 24.5, diam. 3.7 mm., whorls remaining 11%. 



Length 29.5, diam. 3.8 mm., whorls 16 (entire). 



Length 31, diam. 4 mm., whorls 15% (entire). 



Jamaica: western half, in the high interior. Aenon Town, 

 Clarendon; Porus (Jarvis), Mandeville and Spur Tree Hill, 

 Manchester (Henderson) ; Ipswich, St. Elizabeth (Hender- 

 son). 



Turbo gracilis WOOD, Index Test., suppl., p. 20, pi. 6, f. 38 

 (1828). Cyl. gracilis PFR. in Phil., Abbild., ii, p. 49, pi. 2, f. 

 5 ; Moiiogr., ii, p. 381 ; viii, p. 442 ; Conchyl. Cab., p. 57, pi. 6, 

 f. 23-25. CROSSE & FISCHER, J. de Conchyl., 1870, p. 11, pi. 

 4, f. 1 (teeth). GLOYNE, J. de C., 1872, p. 36; Quart. Journ. 

 of Conch., i, p. 53 (habits, food, viviparity). SOWERBY, C. 

 Icon., xx, pi. 9, f. 78. HENDERSON, Nautilus, viii, p. 20. 

 Casta gracilis Wood, STREBEL, Beitr. Mex. Conch., iv, p. 106, 

 pi. 13, f. 8 (teeth). Cyl. chemnitziana t PFR. in Phil., Abbild., 

 i, p. 184, pi. 1, f. 5. 



A more attenuate shell than B. chemnitziana, usually re- 

 taining more whorls. It is widely distributed over the plateau 

 of the centre and the western half of the island, but does not 

 approach the coasts nor trespass upon the much smaller area 

 of B. chemnitziana. The specimens sent by Mr. Jarvis from 

 Aenon Town are small, 19 x 3.3 to 22 x 3.8 mm., with 7y 2 to 

 Sy 2 whorls below the plug. 



Genus PINERIA Poey, 1854. 



Pineria POEY, Memorias sobre la Historia Natural de la 

 Isla de Cuba, i, p. 428, for P. terebra and P. beathiana. 

 v. MART, in Albers' Die Hel., p. 293, type P. beathiana (1860). 

 BINNEY & BLAND, Ann. of the Lye. Nat. Hist, of N. Y., x, 

 1871, p. 22. 



