B U L I M U S 
Plate XXVIII. 
Species 160. (Fig. 160 6. Mus. Cnming.) 
Bulimus ftilminans. The shell here represented is 
that in Mr. Cuming’s collection, described by Dr. Pfeiffer 
under the name of B.Loveni, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1847, p.229. 
It is without doubt identical with the B. fulmimm de- 
scribed at PI. XXrV., though lighter in structure and of 
less acuminated growth. 
Species 169. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Bulimus Milleri. Bui. testa ovato-ohlonga, spira suh- 
obtusd, attfractibus quinque, tunddiusculis, oblique con- 
volutis, aperturd subcontractd, lahro rejlexo ; castaneo- 
fuscd, epidermide sericed, transvermn minute gramhso- 
crispatd, indutd, peritremate roseo. 
Miller’s Bitlimus. Shell ovately oblong, spire rather 
obtuse, whorls five in number, rather swollen, ob- 
liquely convoluted, aperture somewhat contracted, 
lip reflected ; chesnut-brown, covered with a silken 
epidermis, which is transversely minutely granulously 
crisped, peritreme rose-coloured. 
SowERBY, Conch. lUus. f. 94. 
Sab. Brazil. 
This beautiful species is mainly distinguished by its 
exquisite silken epidermis, which exhibits two or three 
bands towards the base, not of colour, but of light and 
shade, as in a shot-silk. 
Species 170. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Bulimus auris-Midas. Bui. testa oblongo- vel elongato- 
ovatd, subcompressd, anfractibus sex. Iambus aut irre- 
gulariter rugoso-striatis, nltiuo valde majore, columelld 
callosa plicaformi, interdum duabus, munitd, aperturd 
ampld ; fulvescente-alid, epidermide olivaceo-castaned 
indutd, apertura fauce rvfescmte-croced, peritremate 
lacted. 
The Midas’ ear Bulimus. Shell oblong or elongately 
ovate, a little compressed, whorls six in number, 
smooth or irregularly roughly striated, last whorl 
very much the larger, columella furnished with a 
plait-like callosity, sometimes two, aperture large ; 
fulvous white, covered with an olive chesnut epider- 
mis, interior of the aperture reddish chesnut, peri- 
treme cream colour. 
Auris-Mida terra australis, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. vol.ix. 
p.42. pi. 121. f. 1039, 1040. 
Bulimus fibratus. Gray. 
Sah. New Caledonia. 
We are informed by Chemnitz in the ninth volume of 
the Conchylien Cabinet, published in 1786, that this shell 
was known to Favanne as “ a very rare Buccinum from 
New Holland bearing some resemblance to the false 
Midas’ Ear,” meaning the Auricula Mida, which Bru- 
guiere referred to his genus Bulimus imder the same 
specific title as that used by Chemnitz in reference to this. 
We also learn from the same source that it was known to 
English collectors upwards of half a century ago, as 
‘The Midas’ Ear from New Caledonia.’ Lamarck, 
however, and his followers appear to have confoimded 
it with the B. auris-bovim, fi:om which, as described at 
PI. XXX., it is amply distinguished. 
The chief variation in the growth of the present species 
consists in some specimens being of an elongated form as 
represented in Chemnitz, and of which a specimen exactly 
agreeing with that figure is before me, and in others being 
of a compressed oblong tumid growth, as in the shell re- 
presented in the accompanying plate. Both varieties are 
distinguished by a plait-like callosity on the columella and 
the rich orange-red painting of the interior, but are equally 
distinct from the B. STwngi or auris-bomna. 
Species 171. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Bulimus Funckii. Bui. testa elongato-oblongd, subcylin- 
draced, crassiusculd, anfractibus quinque ad sex, longi- 
tudinaliler irregulariter rude striatis, lavihus, apiceni 
versus subtilissitrie corrugato-reticulatis, columelld suh- 
arcuatd, labro fortiter rejlexo ; rufo-castaned, epider- 
mide olivaced erased indutd, aperturd livido-fuscd, 
peritremate fumeo-aurantio . 
Funck’s Bulimus. Shell elongately oblong, somewhat 
cylindrical, rather thick, whorls five to six in number, 
longitudinally irregularly rudely striated, smooth, 
very finely corrugately reticulated towards the apex ; 
columella slightly arched, lip strongly reflected ; 
reddish chesnut, covered with a thick olive epidermis, 
interior of the aperture bvid brown, peritreme smoky 
orange. 
Nyst, Mem. Societe Eoyale de Liege, vol. i. 
July, 1848. 
