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eggs measure 4.5 x 3.5 mm. Twenty-two were contained in 

 an individual in A. N. S. In Kamerun these snails are 

 found on plants, particularly Canna and bananas. 



18. L. PRAETEXTA v. Martens. PL 20, figs. 15, 16. 



Shell elongate, very narrowly perforate, lightly striatulate, 

 a little glossy; yellowish, painted with red-brown curved 

 stripes, which are a little wider in the middle, and split 

 several times at the upper and lower ends. Whorls iy 2 , a 

 little convex, slowly increasing, the suture lightly crenulate; 

 last whorl oblong, the base moderately tapering. Aperture 

 subvertical, one-third the length of the shell, oblong, nar- 

 rowed above; the columellar margin twisted, a little thick- 

 ened, violaceous. Length 41, diam. 14.5, length of aperture 

 16.5, width 8 mm. (Martens). 



West Africa: Barombi, Kamerun (Zeuner). 



L. praetexta v. MART., Sitzungsberichte d. Gesellsch. naturf. 

 Freunde zu Berlin, 1888, p. 148; Conch. Mittheil., iii, p. 8, 

 pi. 43, f. 4, 5. 



The dark stripes on each whorl divide into three parts : in 

 the middle broad, with wide light interspaces; above and be- 

 low by repeated splitting they are more numerous and finer. 

 The lower division is concealed on the whorls of the spire. 

 The eggs are 18 mm. long and 14 wide. [Probably an error 

 for 1.8 and 1.4.] 



19. L. DROUETI Morelet. PL 1, fig. 6. 



Shell ovate-turrite, rather thin, slightly striate, glossy; 

 corneous-reddish, closely painted with chestnut, angulate, 

 wavy stripes and flames. Spire turrite, the apex obtuse. 

 Whorls 7y 2 , a little convex, the last two-fifths the total length; 

 columella plicate, flexuous, violaceous-brown. Aperture semi- 

 oval, violaceous inside, showing the stripes through; peri- 

 stome acute, the columellar margin narrowly revolute, form- 

 ing an obtuse angle with the base. Length 30, diam. 8 mm. 

 (Morel.) . 



West Africa: Toumby, near Landana, above the mouth of 

 the Congo. 



