MACROCERAMUS, CUBA. 149 



near Cienfuegos (E. F. Cabada). Also from further east- 

 ward: at Trinidad, and in prov. Santiago at Yateras (Gund- 

 lach), and Ermetano (Wright). 



Bulimus canimensis (typog. err.) PFR., Archiv. f. Naturg., 

 1839, i, p. 351. B. canimarensis PFR. in Phil., Abbild., i, p. 

 57, pi. 1, f. 11. Pupa unicarinata Lam., GLD., Bost. Journ. 

 N. H., iv, p. 490. Bulimus unicarinatus Lam., PFR., Monogr., 

 ii, p. 80; iii, 366; Conchyl. Cab., p. 64, pi. 18, f. 10, 11. 

 Macroceramus unicarinatus Lam., PFR., Monogr., vi, 346. 

 REEVE, C. Icon., v, pi. 66, f. 468. ARANGO, Fauna, p. 81. 

 Not Pupa unicarinata Lamarck. Macroceramus catenatus 

 Gundlach mss., PFR., Malak. BL, vi, 1859, p. 92 ; Novit. Conch., 

 p. 401, pi. 93, f. 5, 6; Monogr., vi, 346. ARANGO, Fauna, 

 p. 81. 



The white flames are sometimes interrupted in the middle, 

 or dislocated to form a closely speckled pattern, fig. 62. Fig- 

 ure 61 represents a typical shell, received from Poey. The 

 species has a wider range westward than its allies, apparently 

 passing from Santiago through central Cuba to Matanzas 

 province. 



33a. Var. catenatus (' Gundl.' Pfr.). PL 21, figs. 19, 20; 



pi. 23, fig. 63. 



Corneous-brown with indistinctly darker streaks, and a 

 row of opaque white spots above the suture and at the 

 periphery. Otherwise like 'canimarensis. Length 13, diam. 

 4.6 mm., whorls 10. 



Eastern Cuba: Yateras, Monte Toro and Monte Libano, 

 in the Guantanamo district (Gundlach) ; Ermetano, in the 

 Cobre district (Wright). 



Occurs at Ermetano with typical canimarensis, of which 

 it is a mere color-variety. 



34. M. NOTATUS (' Gundl.' Pfr.). PI. 21, figs. 1-4; pi. 23, 



fig. 64. 



Shell shortly rimate, oblong-turrite, rather thin, obliquely 

 striatulate, glossy; whitish, variously painted with corneous 

 flames; spire almost regularly tapering, the apex somewhat 



