CALAXIS. 285 



formis (1877). Tornatellinoides PFR. , in part, Nomenclator Hel. 

 Viv. , 1878, p. 338, for most of the same species. 



Shell cylindric-oblong or lanceolate with conic spire, thin, 

 whitish, glassy, composed of 6 to 9 flattened whorls, the last 

 large. Aperture vertical, lanceolate, very narrow above, with a 

 deep rounded sinus below the projecting, lamellar, strongly 

 truncate columella; a strong parietal lamella is usually present, 

 and generally a weak palatal plica opposite it, but in some 

 species these are wanting. 



Type F. hierosolymarum. Distribution, Syria, Palestine, 

 lower Egypt. These shells differ from Pegea by the peculiar 

 Achatinoid columella and glassy texture. Kobelt seems dis- 

 posed to rank the group as a distinct genus, as Bourguignat has 

 done. 



Pfeiffer's group Tornatelloides (later emended to Tornatel- 

 linoides') contained representatives of several genera. His first 

 species, achatinoides, which I take to be the type (following 

 Tryon, Struct, and Syst. Conch, iii, p. 62) is a Gambier Island 

 shell apparently belonging to the Tornatellina group. 



1. F. HIEROSOLYMARUM Roth. PI. 45, figs. 29, 32. 



Shell subfusiform, vitreous, pellucid, glossy, with a conic, 

 acute spire. Whorls 8, flat, the last cylindric, shorter than the 

 spire. Columella subhorizontally, shortly truncate, callous, 

 with a lamella in the upper part. Aperture elliptical, rounded 

 basally, the upper angle very acute; parietal wall bearing a 

 strong acute spiral lamella, which continues inward to the apex; 

 palatal wall delicately uniplicate; right margin arcuate, acute. 

 Length 4 to 8, diam. 1.5 to 2, aperture 2 to 3 mm. (Roth). 



Palestine: Type locality near Jerusalem on the road to Beth- 

 lehem, under an overhanging rock. 



Tornatellina hierosolymarum ROTH, Malak. Bl. i, 1855, p. 39, 

 pi. 1, f. 8, 9. PFR., Monogr., iv, 652; vi, 260. MOUSSON, 

 Coquilles terr. et fluv. recueillies par Roth en Palestine, 1861, 

 p. 51, with var. discrepans, p. 52. Ferussacia h., BGT. , Rev. et 

 Mag. Zool., 1864, p. 208, pi. 18, f. 1-4; Moll. nouv. litig. etc., 

 iv, p. 126, pi. 19, f. 1-4. Calaxis h., KOBELT, Iconogr., vii, 

 p. 17, pi. 184, f. 1164. 





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