Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 3 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

Specific (?) Character.

Shell reversed, ovate-oblong, sub-ventricose, pale rose colour, with obsolete white bands.

Ach. bulimoïdes (var. rosea) Swains. in Brand's Journal Cap. 1828, p. 85.

The figures on this plate complete the illustration of our monograph of this pretty and interesting group of shells. At present, we feel undecided whether this is a species, or a variety of A. bulimoïdes, from which it differs in being reversed, in having the marginal groove very distinct, instead of scarcely perceptible, and in colour. We possess only two specimens which came, with all the others, from the Pacific Islands.

ACHATINELLA pulcherrima.

Fig. 2.

Shell ovate-oblong, sub-cylindrical, white or yellow, with broad bands of chesnut; margin of the lip, brown.

Ach. pulcherrima. Sw. ut. sup. p. 86.