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Show 1887.] MOLLUSKS OF THE VITI ISLANDS. 185 the last two whorls with small longitudinal striae and small transverse corrugations; spire obtuse, decorticated, minutely punctured, two thirds the length of the shell; whorls 5, moderately convex, the last one attenuated at the base ; aperture slightly oblique, oblong, auriform, light fulvous ; peristome white, rather widely expanded and somewhat reflected; columellar lip dilated, and the fold oblique and prominent. Length 41, diam. 17 millim. I obtained 20 living examples of this species, which were collected by the natives at N a Viti Levu Bay, on the N.E. coast of Viti Levu. It is smaller and a more graceful species than P. fulguratus, and the base is more contracted. Genus STENOGYRA, Shuttleworth. 1. STENOGYRA TUCKERI. Bulimus tuckeri, Pfeiffer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1846, p. 30; Mjn. Hel. ii. p. 158; (Opeas) Vers, p. 156; Reeve, Conch. Icon, pl, 68, sp. 481 ; (Opeas) Cox, Mon. Austr. Land-Shells, p. 69, pl. 13. fig. 9 ; Brazier, Quart. Journ. Conch, i. p. 272. Stenogyra tuckeri, Albers, Die Hel. ed. 2, p. 265 ; (Opeas) Frauenfeld, Verh. zool.-bot. Wien, xix. p. 873 ; Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 473; Garrett, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1881, p. 393; 1885, p. 43. Bulimus junceus, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1846, p. 191; Expl. Exp., Shells, p. 76, fig. 87 ; Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. ii. p. 220. Stenogyra juncea, Mousson, Journ. de Conch. 1869, p. 340 ; Pease, Journ. de Conch. 1871, p. 93; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 473; (Opeas) Paetel, Cat. Conch, p. 104; Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeff. v. p. 90; Garrett, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1879, p. 19. Bulimus walli, Cox, Cat. Austr. Land-Shells, p. 24 ; Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. vi. p. 99. Stenogyra upolensis, Mousson, Journ. de Conch. 1865, p. 1/5; (Obeliscus) Paetel, Cat. Conch. 1873, p. 104 ; Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeff. iv. p. 29. Bulimus upolensis, Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. vi. p. 100. Bulimus panayensis, Pfeiffer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1846, p. 3 3; Mon. Hel. ii. p. 156 ; (Opeas) Vers, p. 156 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 14. no. 76 ; (Opeas) Albers, Die Hel. p. 175. Subulina panayensis, H. & A. Adams, Gen. Moll. ii. p. Ill ; Semper, Phil. Landmoll. ii. p. 137, pl. 8. fig. 15. Stenogyra panayensis, (Opeas) Albers, Die Hel. ed. 2, p. 265; Martens, Ostas. Zool. ii. p. 83 (Siam), p. 376, pl. 22. fig. 8 ; (Opeas) Paetel, Cat. Conch, p. 104. Bulimus diaphanus, Gassies (not of Pfeiffer), Journ. de Conch. 1859, p. 70. Bulimus souverbianus, Gassies, Faune Nouv. Caled. p. 52, pl. 2. fig. 5 ; Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. vi. p. 98. Bulimus artensis, Gassies, Journ. de Conch. 1866, p. 50; Pfeiffer, Mon. Hel. vi. p. 98. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1887, No- XIII. 13 |
