178 LOUIS GERMAIN 
about 4o specimens, to all appearance full grown and in first 
rate condition, some of them, to my mind, very old speci- 
mens, in none of them were there any signs of any teeth wha- 
tewer within the outer margin of the aperture ! Of the Bour- 
bon species, [ only found 5 specimens, one evidently young, 
the other 4 full grown and all showing the peculiar charac- 
ters... 
SUII the ressemblance is so striking, that I think no natu- 
ralist would hesitate to avow, that they must at no very 
remote period have had à common origin... » [loc. supra 
CU OO) 06 Miro): 
Ile de la Réunion : Rare, avec Ennea pupula Deshayes, aux 
environs de Salazie [G. Nevizr, loc. supra cit., 1870, p. 412 
AS TO prob 
. 
Famille des AGHATINIDAE 
Genre ACHATINA de Lamarck, 1599 (1). 
ACHATINA (ACHATINA) PANTHERA de Férussac. 
PI. X, fig. 3-4; pl. XI, fig. ° et pl. XIII, g. 5-6. 
1810 Achatinus sp. D. pe Monrrorr, Conchyliologie systématique, I, p. 
h18 (x). 
1820-1801 Helir (Cochlitoima) panthera pre FérussAc, Tableaux sSystéma- 
tiques, p. 49, n° 349 (nomen nudum). 
1825 Helix (Cochlitoma) panthera ne FÉRUSsAC, Hist. gén. part. Mollusques 
enr Mluv PT Ep 169 pl AOCXAVIMTE NEC RNE DRE 
CXXXIT, fig. 1-2 
1838 Achatina panthera De Lamaror, Hist. natur. animaux sans Vertèbres, 
Ed. II, [par G. P. Dssuaves], VIIT, p. 309. 
(x) Lamarck (J. B. M. de). Prodrome nouvelle classification Coquilles, 
Mémoires Société Hist. nalur. Paris, 1979, p. 75 [| — Ampulla BoLtEn, 
Museum Boltenianum, Ed. I (1792) p: 110 et Edit. II (1819), p. 78, (part) ; 
= Chersina HumPpnrey Museum Calonnianum, 1797, p. 62, (part) ; = Acha- 
tium Link, Beschreib. Rostock Sammlung, 17 mai 1807, p. 17 (part) ; = 
Achatinus Denys pe MontrortT, Conchyliologie systémalique, Paris, 1870, 
If, p. 418 ; — Cochlitoma pe FéÉrussAc, Tableaux systématiques.…., Paris, 
1821, p. 48 (part) ; = Oncaea Gisrez, Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller 
drei Reiche, 1850, p. 550 ; — Parachatina BourGuienaT, Mollusques Afrique 
équatoriale, Paris, mars 1889, p. 73 ; — Serpaea BoURGUIGNAT, loc. supra 
cit., p. 74 et p. 85; — Pintoa BourGuIGNAT, loc. supra cit.) p. 80, = Ur 
ceus (Klein) JousseAuME, Bulletin société zoologique de France, IX, 1884, 
nel SM 
(2) La figure seulement. 
