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Petit de la Saussaye distinguishes, as a species of Helix distinct from 
the {Streptaxis) comboides, D’Orh., of Chiquitos, a shell from Bahia, 
mentioned by Moricand, in the writings of the Geneva Nat. Hist. Soc. ; 
and he calls it H. {Streptaxis) dejecta. It has two teeth on the labrum, 
while in the H. comboides, D’Orb., only one, of a much larger size, is 
found. The author also gives here the character of a new species, 
Helix Candei ; testa subovali, albida, nitida, perforata, anfr. 5-6, 
convexiusculis ; apertura rotundata, edentula, breve reflexa, mnbilico 
parvulo; 5 mill. : New Granada. (Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 175.) 
Carocolla cumberlandiana, Lea (Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1840, p. 289) ; 
whitish, marked with brown ; widely umbilicated ; aperture furrowed 
interiorly : Cumberland Mountains. G. edgariana (id. ib. 1841, p. 31) ; 
above plain, beneath convex ; bay ; not umbilicated ; columella has one 
tooth : Cumberland Mountains. 
J. C. Jay of New York describes two new species of Bulimus (Rev. 
Zool. 1842, p. 80). B. malleatiis ; testa ovato-oblonga, sub-ventricosa, 
subtenui, rugoso-malleata, albida, maculis fuscis subseriatis irregulariter 
picta, anfractibus quinis, ultimo maximo, spira conico-subacuta, apice 
obtuso, apertura ovato-acuta, intus sublutescente, columella contorta, 
labro albo, crassiusculo, late reflexo, mnbilico ovato-oblongo ; long. 
55 mill. ; larg. 28 mill. B. fulguratus ; testa oblonga, solidiuscula, 
transversim striato-undulata, anfractibus quinis, convexiusculis, ultimo 
dilute olivaceo, flammis fuscis fulgurantibus interdum confluentibus 
ornato, superne maculis albis alternis cincto, spira conico-subacuta, 
decorticata, dilute-rosea, apertura ovato-oblonga, intus subfulva vel 
aurantia, colmnella plicata, umbilico oblongo, labro reflexo, albido ; 
long. 50 mill. ; larg. 22 mill. : both species are from an island in the 
Pacific. 
A new Bulimus, described by Souleyet, is to be found in the same 
work, p. 102. B. umbilicaris ; testa umbilicata, ovato-conica, albido-rosea, 
laevigata, anfr. 6-7 convexiusculis, apertura ovato-oblonga, angustata, 
columella subrecta, reflexiuscula, labro teiiui, subreflexo, umbilico 
magno, cylindrico, usque ad apicem perspicuo ; 13 mill. : Bolivia. 
Dr. J. H. Jonas (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 188) describes four new 
Bulimi. B. calobaptus, umbilicated ; reddish, with yellow wavy bands. 
B. balanoides, yellow, with brown red bands ; base of the last whorl 
green. B. aplomorphus, yellow, with three red brown bands. B. 
simplex, green, the last whorl has an obtuse angle All from the 
Philippines. 
Pfeifier describes (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1842, p. 88) five species of 
* This seems a proper place to remark, that the reporter, in his abridgement 
of the specific characters here and elsewhere, often omits those particulars 
which are most distinctive. — Traxs. 
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