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Show 1880.] SHELLS FROM THE TRANSVAAL. 615 elevated, apex obtuse; whorls 4\, symmetrically increasing, the last equal to the others in breadth ; aperture large, lunate, as broad as high ; labrum simple, acute, slightly reflexed near the upper part of the columella : suture deepish, well defined. Greatest diameter 16 millims., smallest diameter 14, height from base of aperture to apex 11*5, diameter of aperture 9. Locality. Leydenburg, Transvaal. Only a single fine specimen taken. This species may eventually prove to be a Vitrina when tbe animal has been observed. VITRINA POEPPIGI, Menke, Pfr. Symb. iii. p. 81. Not very plentiful on the banks of the Moori River, Transvaal. VITRINA TRANSVAALENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LVII. fig, 3.) Shell globular, hyaline, semitransparent, fragile, glossy, amber-coloured; apex obtuse; whorls 3\ to 4, very convex, rapidly increasing, the upper whorls smooth, the last faintly striated by the lines of growth and slightly puckered at the suture ; suture linear, deep ; aperture lunate, as broad as high, slightly flattened at the base. Greatest diameter 10| millims., smallest diameter 9, height from base of aperture to apex 8|, diameter of aperture 5i. Locality. Leydenburg, Transvaal. Not rare. This species is nearly allied to V. poeppigi, Menke, but is more globular and the coloured spiral band found in that species is wanting. VITRINA VANDENBROECKII, sp. nov. (Plate LVII. fig. 4.) Shell oblong, vitreous, depressed, flattened above, of a pale yellow colour, dull above, glossy below and within the aperture; apex, suture and margin of labrum of a dark umber-colour ; spire depressed, apex very obtuse ; whorls 3\, the last very large and rapidly increasing, puckered at the suture ; suture deep and very well marked ; aperture oblong lunate, subhorizontal, flattened beneath ; peri-treme, viewed from above, rather prominent; columella slightly arcuate. Greatest diameter 14^ millims., smallest diameter 11, height of aperture 7\, breadth of aperture 9, Locality. Plentiful at Leydenburg, Trausvaal. I have great pleasure in naming this shell after my friend M. Ernest Van den Broeck, of the Musee Royale, Brussels. BULIMUS (PACHNODUS) DRACKENBERGENSIS, E. A. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th series, vol. xx. p. 538. Locality. Pilgrim's Rest, Transvaal. BULIMUS (STENOGYRA) TURRIFORMIS, Krauss, Siidafr. Moll. p. 78, pl. v. fig. 2 ; Pfr. in Zeitschr. f. Malak. 1848, p. 121. Plentiful at Leydenburg, Transvaal. |