292 LIMICOLARIA, EAST AFRICA. 



Kawironda, northeast side of Victoria Nyanza (Neumann) ; 

 Ukamba, British East Africa ( Hildebrandt) . 



L. m. var. eximia MARTS., Nachrbl. d. mal. Ges., 1895, p. 

 183; Beschalte Weiehthiere, p. 110, pi. 5, f. 34, 34a. 



An egg is figured, f. 44. 



62. L. TULIPA Jousseaume. PI. 22, fig. 45. 



Shell very narrowly, nearly covered perforate, ovate- 

 oblong, glossy, thin, pellucid, lightly striate; whitish, closely 

 ornamented with wide, wavy, black-purple streaks and short 

 rufous ones below the suture ; spire long-conic, the apex red- 

 dish, obtuse; suture impressed, margined; whorls 8, a little 

 convex, the last two-thirds the total length; columella pale 

 purplish, nearly straight; aperture semi-oval, peristome thin, 

 the outer margin narrowly expanded. Length 43, diam. 16, 

 aperture 16x9 mm. (Jouss.). 



Congo river (Louis Petit). 



L. tulipa Jouss., Le Naturaliste, ix, 1887, p. 6, f. 2. 



Has the coloration of L. martensiana multifida, but is of 

 narrower form. 



63. L. RECTISTRIGATA (E. A. Smith). PI. 33, figs. 27, 28, 31. 

 " Shell oblong, cylindrically conical, narrow]y perforate, 



whitish or a pale rosy tint, varied with oblique brown stripes, 

 which at times become broader or blotchy at the lower part 

 of the whorls. The latter are 8 in number, rather convex 

 and slowly enlarging, obliquely striated by the lines of 

 growth, divided by a simple subhorizontal suture. Last volu- 

 tion oblong, a little attenuated at the lower part. Aperture 

 inversely subauriform, whitish or pale rose within, equalling 

 rather more than one-third of the entire length of the shell. 

 Peristome (viewed laterally) oblique, a little tortuous, thin 

 at the edge, and inconspicuously thickened within. Colu- 

 mella spirally contorted, bluish, and reflexed over the per- 

 foration at the upper part, brownish inferiorly, and grad- 

 ually curving into the basal margin of the aperture. Paries 

 coated with a thin callosity. Length 44 mm., diam. 17 ; aper- 

 ture 16 long, 8 wide " (Smith). 



