. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CENTEAL ^ROVI^•CE SPECIES. 165 Family HELICIDiE. PATULA. (See below.) Patula strig'osa, Gould. Shell broadly lunbilicated, orbicular, slightly and about equally con- vex above and beneath, surface irregular and roughened ^jg 15^ above by indentations and coarse lines of growth and by occasional line revolving lines, smoother and shin- ing beneath ; color asby-gray, somewhat mottled with dusky or altogether rusty brown above, with usually a single, faint, revolving band on the middle of each whorl, and often with numerous bands, unequal in si
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CENTEAL ^ROVI^•CE SPECIES. 165 Family HELICIDiE. PATULA. (See below.) Patula strig'osa, Gould. Shell broadly lunbilicated, orbicular, slightly and about equally con- vex above and beneath, surface irregular and roughened ^jg 15^ above by indentations and coarse lines of growth and by occasional line revolving lines, smoother and shin- ing beneath ; color asby-gray, somewhat mottled with dusky or altogether rusty brown above, with usually a single, faint, revolving band on the middle of each whorl, and often with numerous bands, unequal in size and distance, beneath; whorls 5, moderately convex, the last one eariuated at its commencement and de- pTstH^osa. flexed; aperture very oblique, circular; peristome simple, acute, almost continuous, terminations approaching, joined by thick callus, that of the columella subreflected. Greater diameter 21, lesser 18""™; height, lO'"'". Helix strigosa, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 166 (1846); Expl. , 36, fig. 41 (1852); Terr. Moll., ii, 210, pi. xxvi, a.—Pfeiffer, Viv., i, 121;,iv, 91; Mai. Bl.,1857, 321.—W. G. Binney, Terr. Moll., iv, 23; L. & Sh., i, 72(1869). dnguispira strigosa, Tryon, Am. Jonni. Concb., ii, 261 (1866). Helix Cooperi, W. G. Binney, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 118; Terr. Moll., iv, 97, pi. Ixxvii, fig. 11; L. & Sh., i, 78, figs. 132-137 (1869).—Pfeiffer, Mai. Bllitt.,1859, 6. Anguispira Cooperi, Tryon, Am. Joiirn. Conch., ii, 260 (1866). Helix Hajjdeni, Gabb, Am. JourD. Conch., v, 24, pi. viii, fig. 1 (1869). Patula strigosa, W. G. Binney, Terr. Moll., v, 157. Angiiispira Bruneri, Ancey, Le Nature, iii, 468 (Sept., 1881). This species seems to inhabit all of the Central Province from New Mexico, on the Rio Piedro, to the British Possessions. It is also found in the mountainous country east of the Rocky Mountains in the East- ern Province, at least as far east as longit
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