POIRETIA. 169 



shores of the Adriatic Sea. Type locality Monfalcone; fig- 

 ured specimens from Zara. 



Achatina cornea BRUMATI, Catalogo systematico della Con- 

 chiglie terrestri e fluviatili osservate nel Territorio di Mon- 

 falcone, p. 35, fig. 5 (1838). Polyphemus algirus var. angus- 

 tatus VILLA, Disposit. Syst., etc., p. 19, no description (1841). 

 Achatina poireti ROSSMAESSLER, Iconogr., i, 2 Heft, p. 18, 

 pi. 7, f. 123 (1835). Glandina algira var. compressa Mouss., 

 KOBELT, Iconogr., v, p. 57, pi. 134, f. 1315. 



P. cornea has commonly been known as Glandina poireti 

 Fer., but that was originally defined solely by a reference to 

 Bruguiere's B. algirus; therefore the name cannot be used 

 for the form which Ferussac figured in his later publication 

 (Hist. nat. Moll.), as Rossmassler, Bourguignat and others 

 have done. 



3. P. COMPRESSA (Mousson). PI. 31, figs. 10, 11, 12, 13. 



Shell oblong-cylindric, involute, thin, diaphanous, closely 

 costulate-striate, pale or whitish under a very fugitive epi- 

 dermis. Spire cylindric-turrite, the apex rather obtuse ; 

 suture irregularly crenulate and submarginate. Whorls 5, 

 very rapidly increasing, flat in the middle, the last whorl 

 long, descending, as long as the spire, impressed at its upper 

 third. Columella slightly arcuate or straight, abruptly trun- 

 cate. Aperture acutely piriform, somewhat wider below; 

 peristome unexpended, acute, arching forward in its upper 

 third, the margins joined by a thin callus. Length 35, diam. 

 11, aperture 16x7 mm. (Mouss.). 



Greece: Corfu, type loc. ; Cephakmia, lanina (Dr. Schla- 

 fli) ; Patras (Conemenos). 



Glandina compressa Mouss., Coquilles terrestres et fluvia- 

 tiles recueillies dans 1'Orient par M. le Dr. Alex. Schlafli, 

 in Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in 

 Zurich, iv, 1859, pp. 21, 260, 271, and as " G. depressa," p. 

 33. WESTERLUND and BLANC, Apercu sur la Fauna Malac. 

 de la Greece, 1879, p. 22. 



The original description is given above. Specimens before 

 me are not so large, some measuring 



