184 PARTULA, TAHITI. 



the exterior, flat and projecting outside. The inner 

 [parietal] lip is very thin and furnished with a tooth in the 

 middle, only found in old shells, the young having an in- 

 conspicuous callus in its place. The columella is simple, out- 

 wardly covering an umbilicus resembling that of Bulimus 

 australis. The whole shell is brown outside, or the color of 

 roasted coffee; the lips are whitish and the cavity sooty. 

 It is not eommon. ' ' (Brug.). 



Society Is.: Tahiti (Cook, Garrett et al.). 



Bulimus otaheitanus BRUGUIERE, Encyc. Meth., i, p. 347 

 (1792). PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel., ii, p. 71, in part; Oonchyl. 

 Cab. pi. 14, f. 5, 6. Helix perversa, etc., CHEMNITZ, ix, p. 

 108, pi. 112, figs. 950, 951. Helix otaheitana DILLWYN, Desc. 

 Cat. Shells, ii, p. 935. WOOD, Ind. Test, pi. 34, fig. 110. 

 Partula otaheitana FERUSSAC, Prod., p. 66. REEVE, Conch. 

 Syst., ii, pi. 175, fig. 16; Conch. Icon., pi. 3, fig. 136. 

 PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel. Viv. iii, p. 448. HARTMAN, Cat. Part, 

 pp. 9, 10, with woodcut; Obs. Gen. Part., Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., ix, p. 184. GARRETT, Journ. A. N. S. Phila. ix, 1884, 

 p. 46. Partulus otaheitanus BECK, Ind. Moll., p. 58. 

 Bulimus (Partula) isabellinus PFEIFFER, Proc. Zool. Soc., 

 1846, p. 39; Mon. Hel., ii, p. 70. Partula isabellina REEVE, 

 Conch. Icon., sp. 10, pi. 2, fig. 8&. PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel., iii, 

 p. 448. Bulimus amabilis PFEIFFER, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1846, 

 p. 38; Mon. Hel., ii, p. 71. Partula amabilis REEVE, Conch. 

 Icon., sp. 8, pi. 2, figs. 8a, 10. PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel., iii, p. 

 448. Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 473. Partula rubes- 

 cens REEVE, Conch. Icon., pi. 3, fig. 12. PFEIFFER, Mon. 

 Hel., iii, p. 446. PEASE, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 473. 

 Partula reeveana PFEIFFER, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1852, p. 137; 

 Mon. Hel., iii, p. 447 ; Conch. Cab., Bulimus, pi. 65, figs. 10, 

 11. Partula taheitana GOULD, Expl. Exped. Shells, pi. 84, 

 fig. 91. PEASE, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 473. SCHMELTZ, 

 Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, v, p. 92. Partula lignaria PEASE, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 671 ; 1871, p. 473. PFEIFFER, Mon. Hel., 

 vi, p. 160. SCHMELTZ, Cat Mus. Godeff., v, p. 92. Partula 

 rufa CARPENTER (not of Lesson), Proc. Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 



