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Show 478 MR. G. F. ANGAS ON THE [Julie 3, 7. BULIMUS JOSEPHUS, Angas, P.Z.S. 1878, p. 73, pi. 5. figs. 13, 14. Very few specimens found. " O n the lower hills, Talamanca " (Gabb). M y type specimens were obtained on the trunks of acacia trees, San Jose, Costa Rica. 8. BULIMUS ATTENUATUS, Pfr. Mon. Hel. iii. p. 336 ; Chemn. ed. Nov. 30. 9, 10. " Dota, a high hill region south of San Jose " (Gabb). This species is closely allied to B. costaricensis, Pfr., but is more elongated, and has a twist on the columella, with a somewhat different style of painting. Three specimens only. 9. BULIMUS COSTARICENSIS, Pfr. Mon. Hel. vi. 47; Novitat. iii. 95. 11, 12. Costa Rica. The specimens are all poor and in bad condition. 10. BULIMUS TRIPICTUS, Albert, Mai. Blatt. iv. 1857, p. 97 ; Pfr. Mon. Hel. iv. p. 48. B. rhodotrema, Martens, Mai. Bl. 1868, p. 156; Pfr. Novitat. iii. 101. 10, 11. Costa Rica. A very beautiful little, thin, globose species, pale greenish yellow, ornamented with three dark-brown transverse bands of oblique stripes and spots, with the lip and columella rose-colour. 11. BULIMUS ZHORQUINENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 4.) Shell somewhat broadly perforate, elongately ovate, moderately solid, rather coarsely and irregularly obliquely striated, especially towards the base of the last whorl, crossed here and there with single or double narrow impressed lines, between which are rows of numerous short descending striae; whitish or pale brown, painted with narrow, distant, longitudinal darker brown flames ; whorls 7, rather convex; spire sharply conical; sutures impressed; apex straw-coloured ; aperture large, ovate, effuse, pale lilac-brown within; outer lip white, very much expanded, flattened and a little recurved; columella triangularly flattened and expanded over the umbilical region, ending in a blunt rounded callus interiorly. Diam. 12, alt. 23 lin. Hab. " Middle Zhorquin to Cuabre, low hills and flat ground " (Gabb). This fine shell (of which only three specimens were obtained) resembles B. expansus, Pfr., in shape, but wants the sharp longitudinal sculpture and the dark purple mouth. It is also allied to B. pallidior, Sow., from "Central America;" but that shell is entirely white, and with a much less expanded lip. It is somewhat like B. excelsus, Gould, which, however, is much narrower, and has |