60 VARICELLA. 



margin receding, somewhat calloused. Length. 6, diam. 1.75, 

 aperture 1.5 mm. long. (Pfr.). 



Eastern Cuba: Yunque de Baracoa, type loc. ; Monte Toro 

 (Gundlach). 



Bulimus scalarinus Gundl. mss., PFR., Malak. Bl. xiii, 1866, 

 p. 59 ; Monogr. vi, 104 ; Novit. Conch, p. 428, pi. 96, f . 27-29. 

 Melaniella scalarina Gundl., ARANGO, Fauna, p. 88. 



I have not seen this species. 



6. V. TUBERCULATA ('Gundl.' Poey.). PL 15, fig. 5. 



Shell imperforate, oblong-turrite, rather thin, longitudin- 

 ally very closely striate, decussated with spiral striae, and 

 sculptured with remote ribs; corneous, irregularly marked 

 with chestnut streaks. Spire turrite, the summit rather 

 acute. Whorls 7, angular above the middle, the last not one- 

 third the total length, tapering basally, lightly striatulate 

 anteriorly. Columella receding, somewhat calloused; aper- 

 ture a little oblique, semioval, acute above, ob&oletely an- 

 gular at the base; peristome simple, unexpanded. Length 

 8.33, diam. 2.66, aperture 2.5 mm. long. (Pfr.). 



Eastern Cuba: Guantanamo (Gundlach); Buenavista, in 

 Bayamo jurisdiction ; Loma del Gato, Santiago (Gundlach). 



Melaniella tuberculata Gundl., POEY, Memorias ii, p. 7, 

 no. 398; p. 67, pi. 7, f .10, 11 (1858). ARANGO, Fauna, p. 88. 

 Bulimus t., Gundl., PFR. Malak. Bl. ix, 1862, p. 133 ; 

 Monogr. vi, 104; Novit. Conch, p. 429, pi. 96, f. 30-32. 



I have not seen this species. It was mentioned in Poey's 

 Memorias, with a very rude figure of the living animal and 

 the last whorl of the shell; but it was not described until 

 some years later. A good account of the species is still 

 lacking. 



7. V. MULTICOSTA ('Gundl.' Pfr.). 



Shell imperforate, turrite, rather thin, closely sculptured 

 with elevated cord-like longitudinal riblets; corneous- whitish. 

 Spire subulate, the vertex acute; suture impressed, denticu- 

 late. Wnorls 10, rather flat, the last scarcely -one-fourth the 

 total length, rounded basally. Aperture oblique, subtrian- 



