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fluent, dark rufous bands ; spire as long, or rather longer than 
tlie aperture, with three or four widely interrupted hands ; suture 
not very deeply impressed ; whorls a little convex ; labrum widely 
curved a little outwards ; columella rather wide at its origin. 
Length one and a half inch j greatest breadth, excepting the 
lip, (parallel, of course, to the suture,) seven-tenths of an inch. I 
obtained it on the side of the road between Vera Cruz and Mexico. 
B. EMEUS. — With crowded, minute, transverse striae. Inhabits 
Mexico. Shell conic or elongate ovate, slightly, angulated on the 
middle of the volutions, and covered with minute, undulated, 
impressed, capillary lines ; whitish, with maculated bands : suture 
not deeply impressed ;. aperture shorter than the spire ; labrum 
exteriorly simple, interiorly with a thickened suhmargin ; colum- 
ella short, recurved ; umbilicus small, hut distinct ; spire with 
the angulation concealed by the suture ; body whorl with the 
angulation almost obsole’e. 
Length thirteen-twentieths of an inch ; greatest breadth 
(parallel to the suture) three-tenths. I found this species on the 
road from Vera Cruz to Mexico. As I possess only the “ Tableaux 
Systematiques” of Ferussac’s splendid work, the preceding species 
of Bulimus are offered with considerable hesitation ; but those 
who possess that work can readily detect an error, if there be one. 
Note. — Through the kindness of Dr. Meigs, the obliging 
Librarian of the Academy, I have been able to have impressions 
taken of Mr. Say’s plate of Helix clausa. 
