302 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETT. 



DESCEIPTIONS OF SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF 

 8TREPTAXI8 AND AMPEIDROMUS. 



By Hugh Fulton. 



Read Uth April, 1899. 



1. Streptaxis politus, n.sp. Fig. I. 



Shell depressed - globose, rather widely umbilicated, with short 

 oblique strife at the suture, otherwise smooth above and below, 

 polished ; whorls 6^, slowly and regularly increasing, the last having 

 two or three prominent varices ; aperture oblique, lunate, not 

 descending ; peristome slightly expanded and reflected. Diam. 

 maj. 28, alt. 14 mm. 



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Fig. I. Streptaxis politus, n.sp. 

 ,, II. Streptaxis elongatus, n.sp. 

 ,, III. AmpMdromiis Dautzeniergi, n.sp. 



Sab. — Brazil. 



In general form very like 8. candidus, Spix, but distinctly 

 separable from that and other species known to me by its smooth 

 and polished upper surface. 



2. Streptaxis elongatus, n.sp. Fig. II. 

 Shell rimate, oval, somewhat thin, whitish, polished ; nucleus and 

 front of last whorl almost smooth, remainder of exterior with 



