PINERIA. Ill 



deeply constricting. Aperture small, very oblique; peristome 

 simple, the columella whitish, somewhat concave. 



Length 4-5, diam. 2.5 mm., whorls 7y 2 . 



Length 5-5.5, diam. 2.7-3 mm., whorls 8 (Pfr.). 



Isle of Pines: Sierra de Casas (Gundlach). 



Pineria terebra POEY, Memorias, p. 429, pi. 34, f. 12-16. 

 PFR., Monogr., vi, 343. ARANGO, Fauna, p. 86. CROSSE, J. 

 de C., 1890, p. 202.Bulimus terebra Poey, PFR., Mai. BL, 

 1854, p. 195 ; Monogr., iv, p. 495. 



An excessively peculiar shell, in which the sutures are con- 

 stricted even more than in Brachypodella seminuda, a Jamai- 

 can species, which has evolved along parallel lines. 



3. P. VIEQUENSIS (Pfeiffer). PL 1, figs. 6-8, 11, 12. 



" Shell imperf orate, ovate-conic, rather thin, obliquely 

 striate; corneous, variegated with white flames. Spire some- 

 what scalar, the apex acute. Whorls 6%, with a spinose keel 

 in the middle, the last hardly one-third the length of the shell, 

 with the keel more obsolete. Aperture diagonal, nearly cir- 

 cular ; peristome simple, the margins converging ; right margin 

 arcuate, columellar margin somewhat straightened, callous. 

 Length 5, diam. 3 mm.; aperture 2 mm. long. " (Pfr.). 



Island of Vieque, among dry leaves (Riise). Saint Martin: 

 Simson Bay (Van Rijgersma), in rock-crevices, on the low- 

 lands. St. Bartholomew and Anguilla (Dr. Cleve). Guade- 

 loupe : Maudet plantation, in crevices of a ruined wall built of 

 blocks of madrepore (Schramm, Maze). Barbados: confined 

 to coral rocks bordering the sea on the east side, in Christ 

 church and St. Philip parishes (Feilden). 



Bulimics viequensis PFR., Malak. BL, iii, 1856, p. 46 ; 

 Monogr., iv, p. 495. Macroceramus viequensis PFR., Novit. 

 Conch., p. 408, pi. 93, f. 39-41; Pineria v., PFR., Monogr., vi, 

 p. 343, with var. minor, Barbados (1868). BLAND & BINNEY, 

 Ann. and Lye. Nat. Hist, of N. Y., x, p. 23-27 (distribution, 

 synonymy, dentition). BINNEY, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., iii, 

 p. 126, pi. 15, f. B (jaw), and pi. 14, f. c (teeth), of St. Martin 

 specimen. SMITH & FEILDEN, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), 

 viii, p. 253 (Barbados). BROWN, Journ. of Conch., x, 1903, 



