BULIMUS.— Plate XV. 
Valenciennes, Humboldt, Zool. v. ii. p. 244. pi. 55. f. 4. 
Bidimm iostoma, Sowerby. 
Hub. Chili and Peru (on trees) ; Cuming. 
At the Isle of Plata Mr. Cuming found this beautiful 
and well known species in such abundance upon trees 
stripped of their leaves, that they looked as if laden with 
fruit. The animal yields a rich purple juice. 
Species 89. (Fig. a and h. Mus. Cuming.) 
Belimus poephyeies. Bill, testa, suhelongato-ovatd, 
spiru acuminata, anfractUma sex, concenirice rude et 
irregulariter elevato-striatia, per margineni superioretn. 
hie illio minute crenulatis; fumeo-fused, striis concen- 
tricis Me illic albis. 
The poephyey Belimes. Shell somewhat elongately 
ovate, spire acuminated, whorls six in number, con- 
centrically, rudely, and in-egularly elevately striated, 
and minutely crenulated here and there along the 
upper margin ; smoky brown, concentric striae here 
and there white. 
Peeiffee, Zool. Pro. Soc. 1846. p. 114 
Hob. ? 
The growth of this shell not being completed, it is im- 
possible to say whether the lip would remain simple or be 
reflected at maturity. It is a very characteristic species and 
cannot easily be confounded with any other ; the white 
ridge-like striae have a rubbed appearance and being on 
a dark ground have a very peculiar aspect. Mr. Cuming 
has no infonnation as to its locality. 
Species 90. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Belimes zebea. Bid. teatd ovatd, tenuiculd, imperforatd, 
ventricosd, spird acuminatd, anfractibus subrotundatis 
Iambus, columella redd, labro simplici; viridi, Jlam- 
mis strigisque minoribus pecnliariter undatis Jlavican- 
tibus ormtd, columella albd, labro intus castaneo-mar- 
ginato. 
The zebea Belimes. Shell ovate, rather thin, imper- 
forated, ventricose, spire acuminated, whorls some- 
what rounded, smooth, columella straight. Up simple ; 
green, ornamented with pecuUarly waved flames and 
lesser streaks of yellow, columeUa white, Up edged 
internally with chesnut. 
Buccinum zebra, MuUer, Venn. Terr, et Fluv. Hist. p. 138. 
Bulimus undatus, Bruguiere. 
Varietates. 
Bulimus zigzag, Lamarck. 
Bulimus princeps, Sowerby. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Eico, Veragua, Pernam- 
buco, West Indies. 
Few species of the genus afi^ect a wider range of country 
than the present, and it is owing to the diflferent aspects 
under which it is found, that the above-recorded synonymes 
have arisen. The beautiful variety figured in the Concho- 
logical Illustrations under the name B. princeps was col- 
lected by Mr. Cuming in the woods of Nicaragua where it 
inhabits the hoUows of trees j the more common variety, 
known as the B. undatus, is found in the West Indies and 
Brazil, and, extremely rich in colour, at Panama and Costa 
Eico. 
