listed under dubious taxa. All records of “Julus” indus in the West Indies and South America (cf. Koch 1847, 1863, Pocock 1894, Krabbe 1982) are definite misidentifications. Preudhomme de Borre (1884b) distinguished the spellings Spirostreptus indicus and Spirostreptus indus, both attributed to Linnaeus, by provenance, the former said to come from India, the latter, after Koch (1847, 1863), from Brazil.