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This form differs from V. denticulata by its subsutural 

 plication and larger aperture; from V. ptychoraphe by the 

 strongly arcuate lip and narrower contour. The point or 

 lobe on the outer lip is thin, as Weinland states is the case 

 with V. denticulata. 



A single broken shell taken by Henderson at Sans Souci, 

 in the north, probably belongs to this subspecies. 



636. Var. GUTTIDENTATA Pilsbry, n. subsp. PI. 19, fig. 45. 



Smaller than the preceding, very glossy, with very few im- 

 pressed lines besides the varices on the earlier post-em- 

 bryonic whorls, and none on the later. Four or five varices 

 on each of the last four whorls, without brown streaks. Be- 

 low the suture there are traces of a very weak, oblique pli- 

 cation, coarse, low and irregularly developed. The outer lip 

 is equably and moderately arched forward, and below the 

 middle it bears a projecting point, which is thickened drop- 

 like inside. Columella strongly concave and obliquely trun- 

 cate. Length 16, diam. 4.9 aperture 5.9 mm. ; whorls iy 2 . 



Haiti: La Ferriere (J. B. Henderson, Jr.). 



64. V. PTYCHORAPHE (Weinland et Martens). 



Shell elongate, glossy, sculptured with longitudinal im- 

 pressed strige ; fleshy yellowish, ornamented with a few brown 

 varices, two to three on each whorl. Spire long-conic, the 

 apex obtuse; suture coronated with elevated, not close, cos- 

 tulae. Whorls 6, a little convex, the last tapering to the base, 

 Aperture narrowly elliptical, two-fifths the total length; 

 columella straightened, slightly arcuate below, abruptly trun- 

 cate; outer margin unexpanded, simple, hardly curved. 

 Length 13, diam. 5, aperture 6x3 mm. (Martens) . 



Haiti: near Jeremie (Weinland). 



Glandina ptychoraphe W. & M., Malak. Bl. vi, 1859, p. 57. 



Von Martens further remarks that in this species the im- 

 pressed lines below the suture are much less regular and 

 distinct than in V. nitida Ad., and some of them, usually 

 every third or fourth one, are elevated into real ribs near the 

 suture, of which 23 may be counted on the last whorl. The 



