Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . SKULLS OF M) SCAPHOCEROS CAVIFRONS AND (2) BOOTHERIUM BOMBIFRONS(About i natural size.) SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 48, PL. SKULLS OF (1) SCAPHOCEROS CAVIFRONS AND (2) BOOTHERIUM BOMBIFRONS(About 1 natural size.) A NEW GENUS AND SEVERAL NEW SPECIES OF LAND-SHELLS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL MEXICO BYDOCTOR EDWARD PALMIER By WILLIAM HEALEY DALE Doctor Edward Palmer of the U. S. Department of Agriculturehas for a good many years been engaged in Mexico, where histravels have been extensive, collecting plants for the National andother herbaria. In th
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . SKULLS OF M) SCAPHOCEROS CAVIFRONS AND (2) BOOTHERIUM BOMBIFRONS(About i natural size.) SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 48, PL. SKULLS OF (1) SCAPHOCEROS CAVIFRONS AND (2) BOOTHERIUM BOMBIFRONS(About 1 natural size.) A NEW GENUS AND SEVERAL NEW SPECIES OF LAND-SHELLS COLLECTED IN CENTRAL MEXICO BYDOCTOR EDWARD PALMIER By WILLIAM HEALEY DALE Doctor Edward Palmer of the U. S. Department of Agriculturehas for a good many years been engaged in Mexico, where histravels have been extensive, collecting plants for the National andother herbaria. In the course of his researches he has from time totime collected landshells, which have been added to the National col-lection. In a recent expedition to the State of San Luis Potosi, at aheight of 7,200 feet above the sea, on the range locally known asthe Alvarez Mountains, he obtained a small collection which provedto contain a very remarkable new genus allied to Holospira, andseveral new species of known genera, which form the subject ofthis paper. Family : HENDERSONIA new genus Shell discoid, with a single internal parietal lamina, the apertureand part of the l
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