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reported from Guayaquil, Ecuador (as 0. acutius Mill.). 

 Panama (Gabb), Ghontales, Nicaragua (R. Tate) ; Utila, I., 

 Honduras (Simpson). Also reported by von Martens from 

 British Honduras at Belize; Guatemala at Coban and Anti- 

 gua; Nicaragua at Acoyapa; Costa Rica at Puerto Viejo. 

 Mexico: Merida, Yucatan (Heilprin) ; San Juan Bautista, 

 Tabasco (Rovirosa) ; and reported by von Martens from the 

 additional -States of Yera Cruz, Jalisco and Chiapas. 



A few other localities are recorded in the literature, see 

 below. It has been found in a hothouse at Exeter, England 

 (Coll. A. N. S. P.). 



Achatina subula PFR., in Wiegmann's Archiv f. Naturge- 

 schichte, 1839, i, p. 352. Bulimus subula PFR., Symbolse ad 

 Hist. Hel. i, p. 85; Monogr. ii, 158; iii, 399; iv, 458; vi, 97; 

 viii, 136 ("Cuba, common around Havana and Matanzas") ; 

 Malak. Bl. 1854, p. 196. REEVE, Conch. Icon, v, pi. 69, f. 494. 

 Stenogyra subula Pfr., SHUTTLEWORTH, Diagnosen, etc., no 

 6, p. 138, in Mittheil. naturforsch. Ges. in Bern, 1854, p. 46. 

 POEY, Memories, i, p. 396. MARTENS, Malak. Bl. xii, 1865, 

 p. 49 (Mex.). BINNEY, Terrestr. Moll. U. S. v, 195, fig. 

 97 (jaw), 99; pi. 4, f. P (dentition) ; Man. Amer. Land Shells 

 p. 426, f. 473 (Mobile, Alabama). MAZE, Journ. de Conchyl. 

 1883, p. 6, 41, 47, 51 (Guadeloupe) ; Journ. de Conch., 1890, 

 p. 22 (Guadeloupe and dependencies). SMITH, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Lond. xx, p. 502 (Fernando Noronha). 



Opeas subula FISCHER et CROSSE, Miss. Scient. au Mexico, 

 Moll., i, p. 600, pi. 26, f . 7. ANCEY, Ann. de Malac. 1886, p. 

 250 (Utila I., Simpson). MARTENS, Biologia Centr. Amer., 

 Moll., p. 291, 637, pi. 18, f. 3 (living animal) .SMITH, Proc. 

 Malac. Soc. Lond. i, p. 317 (Grenada). CROSSE, Journ. de 

 Conch. 1890, p. 246 (Cuba) ; 1891, p. 150 (Santo Domingo) ; 

 1892, p. 28 (Pto. Rico). Stenogyra octonula WEINLAND, 

 Malak, Blatter xxiii, 1876, p. 171, pi. 2, f. 7, 8 (Jeremie, 

 Haiti). Bulimus octonulus PFR., Monogr. viii, p. 613. 

 Opeas o., CROSSE, J. de C., 1891, p. 150. Bulimus octonoides 

 d'ORBiGNY, in Sagra's Hist. Cuba, Moll., i, p. 177, pi. xi bis, 

 f. 22-24. Opeas acutius MILLER, Malak. Bl. (n. F.) i, 1879, 

 p. 124, pi. 13, f. 3 (Guayaquil, Ecuador) ; cf. Strebel, Beitrag 



