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mediate form. Were it not for the fact that the majority of its 

 characters seem to resemble those of the typical forms of Limi- 

 colariopsis, it would seem justifiable to place it in Euaethiops. 

 The fact is that in shell characters alone, it is barred from that 

 genus because of its untruncate columella and sculptured em- 

 bryonic whorl, and must for the present remain inLimicolariopsis. 



Fig. 3. Pallial system of Euaethiops loveridgei, showing vascular system, pericar- 

 dium, kidney, ureter, intestine and stomach (lower right) . 



The genus Euaethiops belongs next to Limicolaria, by reason 

 of the anatomical resemblances between the two. It belongs 

 after Burtoa and Achatina since its shell characters, such as 

 sculpture, resemble those of the latter. 



Genoholotype, Euaethiops loveridgei Clench and Archer. 



Euaethiops loveridgei, sp. nov. 



Plate 16, fig. A. 



Description. — Shell, imperforate, ovate-cylindric, rather thick. Nuclear 

 whorl dark mahogany red. Succeeding whorls with snuff brown ground color, 

 ornamented with wavy or zigzag axial, bistre flames. Interior of aperture 

 defep bluish white in the region of the outer lip, but further inside exhibiting 

 the snuff brown color of the exterior, decorated by the same bistre flames. 



