1927] Pilsbry-Bequaert, The Aquatic Mollusks of the Belgian Congo 425 
The shell is higher than A. wissmanni, the greatest height behind the middle, 
covered with a glossy vandyke brown periostracum which shades downward into 
black, and toward the beaks becomes lighter, somewhat otivaceous. Interior as in 
A. wissmannt. 
Length, 107.5 mm.; height, 75.0 mm.; semi-diameter, 20.0 mm. 
This form is eaten by the Bangala. It is known from valves picked 
from a kitchen midden during a steamer stop. 
Fig. 93. Aspatharia wissmanni bangalorum Pilsbry and Bequaert. Type. 
Malema. 
Other Species of Spathopsis Recorded from the Belgian Congo 
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) corneola (A. 'T. de Rochebrune) 
Spatha corneola A, T. DE ROCHEBRUNE, 1886, Bull. Soe. Malacol. France, ITI, 
p. 9 (type locality: Mokaka, French Congo). Simpson, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 
XXII, p. 902; 1914, ‘Descript. Cat. of Naiades,’ p. 1318. 
Spatha ganciniensis A. T. DE RocHEBRUNE, 1886, Bull. Soc. Malacol. France, 
III, p.9. Germatn, 1909, Arch. Zool. Expér. Gén., XLI, p. 55. Simpson, 1900, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus:, 2 AIT p. 902. 
Gancini or Nganchu, on the right bank of the Congo River (Thollon Coll.; 
type locality of S. ganciniensis). 
Aspatharia (Spathopsis) rubens (Lamarck) 
Anodonta rubens LAMARCK, 1819, ‘Hist. Nat Anim. sans Vertébres,’ VI, 1, p. 85 
(type locality: Senegal. Based upon Pl. cct, figs. la-b, of Brucuthre, 1797, ‘En- 
cyclop. Méthod., Vers,’ I). 
