In May 1973 one of the Authors (C.A.C.) collected specimens of Biomphalaria straminea (Dunker 1848) at imacita, Bagua Province, Amazonas, Pem. This species has notbeen described before in Peru. Progeny from these specimens tested for susceptíbility to the BH and SJ strains of Schistosoma mansoni which under natural conditions develop in B. glabrata of Belo Horizonte and B. tenagophila of São José dos Campos, respectively. Eighty specimens were exposed to the BH strain of which 13 or 16.2% devetoped infection with secondary sporocysts. However no elimination of cercariae was observed even in a specimen which lived 88 days after exposure. No spontaneous cure was found in this batch. Of 40 B. strami nea exposed to strain SJ, 9 or 22.5% became infected but only two eliminated a few cercariae on two consecutive days at 57 and 77 days after exposure. One died and one underwent spontaneous cure. In two other infected snails in which infection was visible through the shell spontaneous cure was noted. Serial histological sections of 9 snails were made after individual exposure to 50 miracidia of the BH strain and fixed 6-120 hours after exposure. These showed sporocysts in development and invaded by amebocytes without forming granutomas in the host tissues, demonstra ting the snails were susceptible. The population studied behaved experimental/y in a manner similar to other populations of B. straminea tested in the laboratory in that a low susceptibility was demonstra ted. However this does not exclude the possibility that this species could maintain the parasitic cycle in its area of distribution.