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inent below the suture; very obsoletely sulcate spirally on 

 the median whorls and upper part of the last one; glossy, 

 white streaked with reddish brown, the streaks coalescent on 

 the lower whorls, but usually leaving a subsutural band; 

 last whorl generally streaked with buff-white. Spire conic- 

 turrite, the apex obtuse, white, somewhat mamillate. Whorls 

 9, a little convex, separated by an impressed suture, which 

 is somewhat crenulate below; the last whorl hardly as long 

 as the spire, tapering at base, somewhat compressed around 

 the umbilicus. Aperture narrowly ovate, tapering above and 

 below, violaceous-whitish inside with wide violaceous streaks. 

 Columella twisted, receding. Peristome unexpanded, acute, 

 delicately white-lipped inside, the columellar margin vault- 

 ingly reflexed over the perforation. Length 66, diam. 31, 

 oblique length of aperture 32 mm. (Kobelt). 



West coast of Africa. 



Buccinum strigatum MULLER, Hist. Verm., ii, p. 284. 

 Bulla strigata GMEL., Syst. Nat. (13), p. 3430. Limicolaria 

 strigata SHUTTLEWORTH, Notitiae, i, p. 44. PFR., Monogr., 

 iv, 583; vi, 207. KOBELT, C. Cab., p. 117, pi. 32, f. 3, 4. 

 Helix (Cochlogena) flammata FER., Tabl., p. 57; Histoire, 

 pi. 141, f. 4, 5. 



Kobelt's description and figures are copied. Miiller's type 

 is lost from the Copenhagen Museum, but the specimen de- 

 scribed by Kobelt agrees with the original description, and 

 is confidently believed to be the true strigata. 



15. L. FLAMMULATA (Pfeiffer). PL 27, figs. 1, 2. 



Shell perforate, turrite-oblong, thin, striatulate, not glossy, 

 pellucid; corneous-buff, sparsely flamed with rufous. Spire 

 somewhat turrite, the apex obtuse. Whorls 7, rather flat, 

 the median ones very minutely reticulate, last whorl slightly 

 wider, a little more than one-third the total length. Colu- 

 mella vertical. Aperture oblique, truncate-oblong, slightly 

 angular at the base. Peristome simple, unexpanded, the 

 columellar margin compressed, reflexed, noticeably dilated 

 above. Length 29, diam. 12, apert. 12 mm. long, 6 wide 



