118 VARICELLA, HAITI. 



bending of the outer lip, often so conspicuous in species of 

 this group, is here represented by a weak retraction near the 

 suture only. One example taken. 



65. V. BIPLICATA (Weinland et Martens). 



Shell elongate, thin, longitudinally 'closely hair-striate,. 

 silky, pale tawny, irregularly marked with narrow distant 

 reddish streaks. Spire turrite, the apex rather acute, suture 

 impressed. Whorls 6 ?, a trifle convex. Aperture narrowly 

 elliptical, four-ninths the total length. Columella rather 

 long, distinctly plicate above, the base obliquely truncate; 

 outer margin unexpanded, acute, arcuately produced in the 

 middle. Length 6.5 (to 9, diam. 2.5 mm., aperture 2.5 to 4 

 mm. long, 1.5 to 2 wide. (Martens). 



Haiti: near Jeremie (Weinland). 



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

 WEINLAND, Jahrb. D. Malak. Ges. vii, 1880, p. 355. 



Described from three examples, a large one with defec- 

 tive aperture and two small, fresh ones. Whether the large 

 one is adult remains uncertain. The upper part of the shell 

 closely resembles V. ligata, but besides the oblique basal 

 truncation of the 'columella it has also a spiral fold, like 

 Spiraxis. 



In his later note Weinland records specimens sent by Bland 

 from Port-au-Prince, 'glassy-clear and transparent, without 

 trace of the red streaks. Possibly these are not really 

 V. biplicata. 



66. V. HISTRIO (Pfeiffer). PL 19, figs. 42, 43. 



Shell long-fusiform, rather solid, nearly smooth, irregu- 

 larly painted with streaks and flames of brown; spire long, 

 suddenly passing into the rather acute apex; suture cren- 

 ate. Whorls 8, convex, deeply plicate below the suture, the 

 last about three-sevenths the 'total length, tapering basally. 

 Columella vertical, obliquely and narrowly truncate. Aper- 

 ture vertical, sub rhombic-oval ; peristome simple, unex- 

 panded, the right margin slightly arched forward. Length 

 23, dram, 'below the middle nearly 8 mm. (Pfr.). 



