8 The West American Scientist. 



3^-32-5; depth 3; scales 6, 39-41-5; color of alburnus and 

 meyeri. Curimatus lepidurus sp. nov. 



Type: No. 20,291 and 20,292. Five specimens collected by 

 C. F. Hartt in the San Francisco below its fall. 



Predorsal region with a distinct median and indistinct lateral 

 keels. Sides and lower parts yellowish, back bluish, each scale 

 of the sides with a narrow median line of golden. Head 3^ ; 

 depth 2*^-2^ ; scales 9-43 to 45-7. 



C. H> and R. S. Eigcnmann. 



A NEW FLORIDA BULIMULUS. 



Bulimulus Hemphilli, sp. nov., Fig. 449 of Binney's 

 Manual of American Land Shells, Bulletin U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, No. 28. 



Shell imperforate, very thin, transparent, amber colored and 

 marked by coarse lines of growth; body whorl with six revolv- 

 ing and slightly interrupted brownish-red bands ; the lower two 

 being close together and upon the rounded base, spire obtuse, 

 whorls five, slightly convex, the body whorl constituting two- 

 thirds ot the entire length of the shell. Suture slight, base uni- 

 formally and gracefully rounded. Aperture direct and oval, 

 peristome thin. " jaw and lingual dentition that of nitelinus ' ' 

 (B. Serperastris Says)." Dr. Binney. Length, 19 inches, diam- 

 eter, 8 inches. Hab. both coasts of South Florida. 



Remarks : Mr, Henry Hemphill of San Diego, Cal., first 

 found a few dead and badly preserved specimens of this shell 

 in 1384 at Marco, West Coast of Florida. From these, Dr. Bin- 

 ney thought them identical with B. Floridanus, Pf. (See Manual 

 of American Land Shells, 1885.) Numerous specimens collected 

 during the past summer by the author and Mr. G. W. Webster 

 and son, prove beyond a doubt that this is not identical with the 

 shell figured and described on page 407 of Dr. Binney's Manual. 

 The B. Hemphilli is more ventricose, not angular at base, imper- 

 forate, differs in color, and in fact, there is a general difference. 



Berlin H. Wright. 



Lake Helen, Fla. 



DESCRIP1ION OF NEW NEMATOGNATHOID 

 FISHES FROM BRAZIL. 



MlCROLEPIDOGASTER, G. NOV. 



Type : Microlepidogaster perforated, sp. nov. 



This genus is closely related to Octocinclus, differing from that 

 genus in the armature of the belly and in the position of the dor- 

 sal fin. 



