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the center of the clumps of coarse grass on these 

 marshes. The animal is in part, if not altogether, 

 carnivorous, and its powerful 

 lingual membrane, armed with 

 long, sharp-pointed teeth, is well 

 adapted to its food. By its ac- 

 tion the soft parts of its prey are 

 rapidly rasped away or are forced 

 in large morsels down the oesoph- 

 agus. It has been seen to swallow 

 entire the half-putrid remains of 

 another land snail, a Helix, and to 

 attack slugs, Limaces, confined in 

 the same box with it, rasping off 

 large portions of the integument, 

 and in some instances destroying 

 them. In one instance an individ- 

 ual attacked and devoured one of 

 its own species, thrusting its long 

 neck into the interior of the shell 

 and removing all the viscera."* 



A single example of another smaller and prettily 

 marked shell, found to-day for the first time, is 

 Bulimulus dormani Binney, whose known range is 

 restricted to Florida. It is elongate-conic in form, an 

 inch and a fourth in length, and of a light flesh color, 

 with several revolving lines of interrupted reddish- 

 brown patches. A dead specimen of a large Planor- 



Fig. 58 Glandh 

 Gmel 



(After Binney.) 



"Manual of American Land Shells, 1885, p. 349. 



