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3. Pupa ovata. 
Pupa (Vertigo) ovata, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. ii. p. 375 (1822)*; Binney, Complete Writings of 
Say, p. 267. 
Vertigo ovata, Binney, Terr. air-breath. Moll. N. Am. ii. p. 334, t. 71. fig. 4°; Land and Freshw. 
Shells N. Am. i. p. 252, figg. 442, 443‘; Man. Am. Land-Shells, p. 334, figg. 362, 363°; 
Morse, Amer. Nat. i. p. 668, fige. 57, 58°; Fisch. & Crosse, Miss. Scient. Mex., Mollusca, 
1. p. 3167, 
Pupa ovata, A. Gould, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 351, t. 16. figg. 7, 8 (1844)°; Kiister, in 
Martini & Chemnitz, Syst. Conch.-Cab. ed. 2, Pupa, p. 119, t. 15. figg. 35-38°; Pfr. 
Monogr. Helic. Vivent. ii. p. 360"; v. Mart. Malak. Blatt. xii. p. 50 (1865); Binney, 
Man. Am. Land-Shells, p. 334, figg. 362, 363 ”. 
Isthmia ovata, Morse, Journ. Portland Soe. i. p. 38, t. 10. fig. 94 (1864) **. 
Pupa modesta, Say, Long’s Second Exped. to St. Peters River &c., App. p. 24, t. 15. fig. 5 (1824) *; 
Binney, Complete Writings of Say, p. 32"°; A. Gould, Report on Invertebr. Mass. p. 188, 
fig. 119 °°. 
Hab. NortH America: New England !° and the North-west Territory !4 to Arizona 
and Texas ¥”. 
E. Mexico: Vera Cruz (Hegewisch ® , Uhde 14). 
This species is the North-American representative of the European Pupa (Vertigo) 
antivertigo, Drap. It is stated+° to have two feelers only. The form of the jaw and 
radula has been described by Binney. Strebel did not meet with it in Mexico. 
Subgen. Leucocuius, Bottg. 
Pupa, subgen. Leucochila, part 2, v. Martens, in Albers’s Die Helic. ed. 2, p. 296. 
Leucochilus, Bottger, in v. Martens’s Conch. Mittheil. i. p. 64 (1880). 
Shell ovate or subcylindrical, pale-coloured ; aperture with several teeth, that on 
the upper wall of the aperture (parietal tooth) very large. 
Widely distributed, especially in North America, the Antilles, Abyssinia, and 
Oceania ; in Europe only Miocene. . 
4, Pupa contracta. 
Pupa contracta, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. ii. p. 374 (1822) ‘; Binney, Complete Writings of Say, 
p. 25°; A. Gould, Report on Invertebr. Mass. p. 186, fig. 117°; Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 
iii. p. 399, t. 8. fig. 22 (1841) *; Pfr. Monogr. Helic. Vivent. ii. p. 356°; Kiister, in 
Martini & Chemnitz, Syst. Conch.-Cab. ed. 2, Pupa, p. 96, t. 13. figg. 16-18°; Binney, 
Terr. air-breath. Moll. N. Am. ii. p. 324, t. 70. fig. 2°; Land and Freshw. Shells N. Am. i. 
p. 242, figg. 420, 421°; Man. Am. Land-Shells, p. 827, fig. 3535°; Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. 
Phil. 1891, p. 315”. - 
Leucochila contracta, Morse, Am. Nat. i. p. 666, fig. 54°; Tryon, Am. Journ. Conch. ii. p. 307, 
t. 21 (15). fig. 16”. 
Pupa deltostoma (Charp.), Kiister, in Martini & Chemnitz, Syst. Conch.-Cab. ed. 2, Pupa, p. 181, 
t. 21. figg. 17, 19 (1852) *. 
