LIMICOLARIA, WEST AFRICA. 267 



Length 32, diam. 16.5, longest axis of aperture 14 mm. 



Length 34, diam. 17, longest axis of aperture 16 mm. 



Cape Palmas, Liberia. 



Bulimics turbinatus Lea, REEVE, C. Icon., pi. 82, f. 605. 

 VIGNON, Bull. Soc. Mai. Fr., 1888, p. 67. PFR., Monogr., iii, 

 p. 387. Achatina (Limicolaria) t. SEMPER, Reisen im Arehip. 

 Phil., Landmoll., p. 142, pi. 12, f. 1 (anatomy). Limico- 

 laria t., KCBELT, Conehyl. Cab., p. 62, pi. 19, f. 6-8. SCHEP- 

 MAN, Notes Leyden Mus., x, 1888, p. 247. Not A. turbinata 

 Lea, see species no. 7e. 



This small, handsome Liberian form has been known as 

 L. turbinata Lea, a name incorrectly given it by Reeve, whose 

 type figure of "B. turbinatus" is copied on pi. 21, fig. 28. 



It is a short, compact, smooth shell, with narrow, slowly 

 widening whorls, and obtuse apex. It is less decussate than 

 typical L. felina, but probably is not constantly distinguish- 

 able from that species. Schepman states that at Grand Cape 

 Mount, Liberia, L. turbinata Rve. occurred with L. tenebrica 

 and spectralis Rve., which, according to Dr. Dohrn, should 

 be considered merely as varieties of turbinata. 



27b. Var. ABETIFIANA Kobelt. PL 37, figs. 12, 13. 



Sculpture strong, almost beaded, becoming weaker on the 

 last whorl ; color-flames not extending far above the periphery. 

 Length 47, diam. 23, oblique alt. of apert. 22 mm. 



Abetifi, a mission station on the Gold Coast. Types in Ber- 

 lin Museum (Kobelt, t. c., p. 76, pi. 26, f. 1, 2). 



Another variety is figured by Kobelt from Togoland, but 

 not named. It is even more roughly sculptured than the 

 above, and narrowly streaked (pi. 37, fig. 14). 



28. L. RUBICUNDA Shuttleworth. PL 29, figs. 12, 13, 14, 15. 

 Shell narrowly perforate, conoid-ovate-oblong, rather solid, 

 pellucid, granulose-decussate, fleshy-rose, ornamented with 

 wide, waved blackish-purple stripes and other shorter red- 

 dish ones, especially below the suture. Spire convexly conic, 

 the apex obtuse, suture slightly impressed, narrowly mar- 

 gined with whitish. Whorls 7 to 8, slightly convex, the last 



