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Reports on zoology for 1843, 1844 / [Ray Society] ; translated from the german by George Busk, Alfred Tulk and Alexander H. Haliday
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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY ^ MDCCCXLIV.

Less. II. circumdata, Per. II. gallimda, Pfr., allied to II. listen, fromLugon. H. eximia, Pfr., allied to H. humboldtiana, Val., from "Vera Cruz.H. paradoxa, Pfr., green, with a black umbilical spot, Lugon. H. trigo-nostoma, Pfr., with broader, almost triangular, aperture, whitish with brown-violet narrow bands, Honduras. H.fodiens, Pfr., nearly allied to fruticum,Lugon. H. radula, Pfr., with crowded lines of growth, which are tra-versed by acute cost®, Lugon. II. biangulata , Pfr., the whorls with adouble keel, Lugon. H. spedabilis, Pfr., horny yellow, with a reddish-brown band, labrum acute, Lugon.

Butimus clavator, Petit (Rev. Zool., 1844, p. 1; Gu&in Mag., pi. 94),turretted, yellowish, 89 whorls, longitudinally wrinkled, margin of aper-ture thickened, umbilical fissure contracted; 66 millim. Madagascar .

Jonas institutes, in Menkes Zeitschrift (p. 35), five species of Bulimusall occurring near the cavern Guacharo , in the valley of Caripe : B. astra-poides, superbus, belluhis, trigonostomus, and euryomphalus.

Bulimus cantorii, Philippi (ib.), allied to B. pupa, Rom China, island ofAuri, near Nankin.

The seventh Part of Philippis Abbildungen contains a plate with Bulimus.In it are figured: B. marmoratus, Dunker, from Brazil ; B. astrapoides,Jonas, dardanus, Privaldsky, from Constantinople ; dealbatus, Say, colu-mella, Philippi, from Brazil ; and curtus, Koch, from Chili.

Fupa Largillierti, Philippi (Menke, Zeitsch. p. 165), from the Isle deBourbon, with an oval, three-toothed aperture.

The genus Cylindrella is exhibited by Pfeiffer on a plate in PhilippisAbbildungen. It contains G. gracilicollis, Per., elegans, Pfr., variegata,Pfr., subula, Per., crispula, Pfr., Laterradii, Grat., perplicata, P4r., aeus,Pfr., collaris, Per., costata, Guild., Pilocerei, Pfr., Chemnitziana,, Pfr., Hum-boldtiana, Pfr., rosea, Pfr., cylindrus, Chemn., brevis, Pfr., Gruneri, Dunker,new species, from Hayti, and speciosa, Dunker, new species, from Mexico .

The sixth Part of the same work is devoted to the genus Glandina, a sub-genus of Achatina. Thirteen species are figured, two of which are new,obtusa, Pfr., from Nicaragua ; sericim, Jonas, from Guinea.

Scarabus pollex (Ann. x, p. 82) is figured by Hinds. (Voy. of Sulphur.)

Planorbis subangulatus, Philippi. (Enumer. p. 119.)

Limnceus solidus, Philippi (Enum. 121), appears to be merely a variety ofthe mutable I. pereger.

Onchidimn nanum, Philippi (Enum. p. 101): black-brown with whitetubercles, on each side six large tubercles at the margin. 3"'.

PULMONATA OPERCULATA.

Cyclostoma Deshayesianum, Petit (Revue Zool. 1844, p. 1, Guerin. Mag.1844, pi. 98): orange-coloured, on half of the whorls surrounded with lamellar