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THE NAUTILUS. 



Fig. 2. 



strigae are slightly broader than in nemorensis and not nearly so broad 

 as in similis. In color it differs from both. 



The shell is named in honor of Mr. C. B. Taylor, well known for 

 his work on the birds and for his attainments in the general natural 

 history of Jamaica, and by whom the species was first collected. 



Glandina ( Varicella) deflorescens, n. sp. Fig. 2. 



Shell elongated, sub-fusiform, turreted, shining; color rather pale 

 brown, generally with dark chestnut-brown, somewhat arcuated 

 streaks, a set of which run coincidently with the varices completely 

 across each whorl. The painting of the shell is singularly varied; 

 each successive whorl presents at the start a semi-trans- 

 lucent, sharply-defined and pure white stripe, which grad- 

 ually passes into pale brown, then slowly deepens in color 

 as the whorl progresses, into a warmer tint and finally 

 merges into an intensely dark-brown stripe, covering the 

 varix forward, which varix marks the termination of a 

 stage of growth. This gradually changing color scheme 

 is always repeated between the several varices, but it is 

 less noticeable upon the upper part of the spire, although 

 actually traceable almost to the apex. Shell regularly 

 sculptured with not very crowded rib-like strias. Whorls 

 8, very slightly convex and obsoletely angular just below 

 the upper margin, which is crenulated by the passing 

 over of the stria?. Suture moderately impressed. Last whorl a little 

 more than one-third the entire length. Outline of spire slightly 

 curvilinear ; apex pointed. Aperture ovate, oblong, considerably 

 dilated at right side of base ; labrum not sharp. Columella white, 

 straight, well truncated with a strong callosity deeply impressed and 

 folded by the entering stria? and varices which pass to and over it 

 from the shell. 



Total length, 17 to 1 8^ mill., diam. 5. Length of aperture 6, diam. 

 2 mill. 



This remarkable species is named in allusion to the singular char- 

 acter of its painting. I am indebted for examples to Mr. P. W. 

 Jarvis, who received them from Mr. Geo. Nutt, by whom they were 

 for the first time collected at Moore-Town in the Parish of Portland, 

 Jamaica. 



The peculiarities of the columella!- callus, impressed with the 



