ACHATINA, EAST AFRICA. 



59. A. CRAVENI E. A. Smith. PL 7, figs. 16, 17, 18. 



"Shell elongate ovate, somewhat acuminate above, beneath 

 a yellowish epidermis white, ornamented with suberect, 

 slightly wavy, brown stripes. Whorls 8-9, rather convex, 

 rather coarsely granosely sculptured; suture between upper 

 whorls horizontal, between two- last more oblique ; last whorl 

 descending, smoother upon the lower part. Aperture sub- 

 pyriform, bluish-white, occupying less than half the shell. 

 Columella not much arcuated, whitish, rather abruptly trun- 

 cated, connected with the upper extremity of the outer lip 

 by a thin callosity. Length 81 millims., diam. 37; aperture 

 39 long, 20 wide" (Smith). 



Between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika (Kirk), and on 

 Tanganyika (Bohm et al.) ; Ufipa and M'bwe countries, 

 south of Tanganyika (Lechaptois). Matangisi in Ugogo 

 (Emin Pasha) ; Massai-steppe, northeast from Ussandami 

 (Langfeld) ; Nyika plateau, 6,000-7,000 ft., and Malosa, 

 Nyasaland, 6,000 ft. (Johnston) ; Tumbatu, a small island 

 near Zanzibar (Stuhlmann). 



A. kirkii SMITH, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1880, vi, p. 428 

 {December, 1880). Not A. kirkii Craven, 1880, a species of 

 Pseudoglessula. A. craveni SM., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1881, p. 283, pi. 33, f. 11; P. Z. S., 1899, p. 590, pi. 35, f. 

 1, 2. CROSSE, Journ. de Conchyl., xxix, 1881, p. 298. 

 MARTENS, Sitzungsber d. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1891, p. 14; 

 Beschalte Weichthiere, p. 91. ANCEY, Journ. de Conch., 

 1902, p. 277, fig. 5; 



"The granose surface of this species is the result of the 

 Coarse raised lines of growth being crossed by transverse 

 impressed striae, which being somewhat remote from one an- 

 other cause the granules to assume a rather elongate form. 

 Mr. Alfred E. Craven informs me that the distinguished 

 name of Dr. Kirk has already last year been associated with 

 a species of this genus. Such being the case, I am com- 

 pelled to alter the designation originally applied to this 

 species; and therefore I have much pleasure in substituting 

 that of A. craveni" (Smith). 



The specimens from Nyasaland "are rather more coarsely 



