These reflexions would indicate that Count Vogelstein read his volume of Tauchnitz rather interruptedly.
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In that year, the album stood interruptedly in HUMO's top 20 of Belgian albums since it came out.
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G. taibaiensis resembles G. japonicus and G. swinhonis. However, G. taibaiensis has fewer preanal pores, only 4–6, which are interruptedly arranged.
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The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 69 mm. The spire is convex, rather obtuse. The body whorl is encircled by distant punctate striae. The color of the shell is rosy tinged with yellow and interruptedly banded with white blotches below the shoulder and in the middle of the body-whorl.
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The shell of the adult snail varies between 12 mm and 20 mm. The shell is numerously narrowly and delicately longitudinally ribbed and is latticed by revolving striae. The shell is yellowish white, interruptedly narrowly brown-banded at the slight shoulder, and occasionally tinged with brown elsewhere.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol.
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The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 60 mm. The shell is yellowish white or brownish, usually interruptedly broad-banded above and below the middle of the body whorl. The spire is turreted. The whorls are covered with a sutural cord and have a smooth, slightly concave shoulder The periphery is nodulous with the terminations of oblique, longitudinal ribs, which are crossed by strong revolving lines.
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The shield is oblong, about one third of the total length of the animal. The shield is rounded in front, angular behind, and forming an angle of about 80 degrees when in motion, usually of a similar tint to the body, but boldly marbled or maculate with black, somewhat concentrically and interruptedly ridged around a sub-posterior nucleus. The pneumostome is just posterior to the midpoint of the mantle, as it is in all Limacidae. The mucus is colorless and iridescent, and not very adhesive.
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The forewings are deep purple with two red longitudinal lines beneath the costa from the base to one-third and two pairs of short fine orange- reddish lines in the disc beneath these. There are 8-shaped blotches irregularly and interruptedly outlined with ferruginous ochreous in the disc before and beyond the middle, the first connected by suffused marks with the costa and dorsum. There is a curved ferruginous-ochreous subterminal line traversed by four streaks on the veins and a ferruginous-ochreous marginal streak around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are blackish grey.
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The forewings are rather light brownish, darker towards base. There is a rather broad whitish costal streak nearly from the base to two-thirds, narrowed near the base, the posterior extremity suffused, with a slender suffused dark-grey streak on the costal edge from before the middle of the wing to two-thirds. The discal stigmata are rather elongate, dark fuscous, touching the lower edge of the whitish streak, the plical slightly marked or obsolete, somewhat before the first discal. There is some fuscous irroration (sprinkling) running from the second discal to beneath the apex and the costa posteriorly and termen are interruptedly lined fuscous.
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An engraving, in all likelihood commissioned by Richard ter Brugghen from Pieter Bodart, and based on an earlier drawing by Gerard Hoet, was put about in 1708. It shows an idealised portrait of Hendrick, the family coat-of-arms, and a printed caption translated from the Dutch as: > Born in Overijsel in 1588, travelled from Utrecht to Rome, and ten years > later returned to Utrecht, married there, lived there interruptedly, and > died at the age of 42 on 1st Nov. 1629; he was a great and famous history > painter from life, painting life-size figures in the Italian manner, so very > superior to all others that the famous P. P. Rubens on travelling through > the Netherlands declared on coming to Utrecht that he had found only one > painter, namely Henricus ter Brugghen. G. Hoet del.
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Underside (male) Underside (female) Male upperside deep velvety black, with one minute snow- white preapical spot on the forewing; the cilia of both forewing and hindwing alternately black and white. Underside dark purplish brown, shaded at base of wings and along costal margin and apex of forewing with dark ferruginous; both forewing and hindwing with two black spots in the discoidal area, followed by an auriform mark and an irregular median band, crossing both wings, of dark brown, markings outwardly obscurely and interruptedly bordered with lilacine; beyond the discal area both wings are shaded transversely with dark brown, succeeded by a subterminal dark line bordered inwardly with purple; forewing with the white preapical spot larger; hindwing with a black white-centred minute subtornal spot. Antennae black; head, thorax and abdomen velvety black, dark brown beneath. Female upperside yellowish brown.
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The male has the ground colour of the upperside rich ochraceous tawny. Forewing has a black subcostal spot at the discocellulars and a pale chestnut line on either side of them; a very short slightly curved discal narrow band from vein 7 to vein 5, a postdiscal broad oblique band from costa to vein 6, and a broad terminal band from apex to vein 1, jet-black; the extreme margin of the termen touched interruptedly with fulvous tawny; the postdiscal band continued as a curved lunular narrow chestnut band to vein 1, and the black at apex continued along the costa, joining the postdiscal band above. Hindwing: costal margin broadly pale yellow, terminal third of wing of a darker tawny shade than the base, a short discal broken black line from costa to vein 6; a subterminal slightly curved series of outwardly pointed black spots, increasing in size to interspace 6, the tornal two centred with white; the terminal margin somewhat broadly dark reddish brown. Underside bright ochraceous yellow.
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