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first sometimes obsolete, lodged below the upper angle of the 

 margin, the second stronger than the third, almost marginal ; 

 3 palatals approaching the peristome, the second a little the 

 strongest. Shell corneous-red, quite glossy, striae fine and 

 regular. Length 6, diarn. 1% nun. Aude, Vaucluse, Drome, 

 Isere, Jura, etc. (Pupa oryzana Loc., Bull. Soc. Agric. Lyon 

 (7),iii, 1896, p. 194). 



Var. lasallei 'Bourg. ' Locard. Ovoid, a little short and 

 stout, feebly tapering above, of 8-9 convex whorls; 4 superior 

 folds, the first and last nearly rudimentary, lodged in the two 

 angles ; 3 columellars, the last much immersed ; 4 palatals, the 

 first and last very small, the other two attaining the margin. 

 Peristome reflected, quite thick; shell glossy-red, ornamented 

 with fine and very crowded striae. Length 6-7, diam. 2%-3 

 mm. Aude, Saone-et-Loire, Haute-Savoie, Ardeche, etc. (Pupa 

 lasallei Bgt. in coll., Locard, Bull. Soc. Agric. Lyon (7), iii, 

 1896, p. 196). 



Var. kraliki Let. Shell perforate (perforation spreading, 

 deep), minute, cylindric, tapering, glossy, corneous, elegantly 

 striate (the strias like riblets, straight, oblique, close, and 

 stronger towards the aperture). Spire little lengthened, 

 shortly tapering; apex obtuse, smooth, paler. Whorls 9, a 

 little convex, slowly increasing, separated by a moderately 

 impressed suture, the last compressed outside, ascending to 

 the lip-insertion, carinate at the base (the carina subobtuse, 

 arcuate, not reaching the periphery). Aperture nearly ver- 

 tical, lunate, buff within, somewhat semioblong, with 11 folds : 

 Parietals 4, of which there are two angulars (one minute, the 

 other very long, running into the throat and enlarging) ; a 

 narrow lamella at the angle at top of the columella; and a 

 remote, robust lamelliform tooth within in the middle of the 

 parietal wall. Columellars 3, the upper one strong, robust, 

 emerging to the margin, another minute, rather deep within, 

 and a lower punctiform. Palatals 4, of which the upper is 

 very deep within, scarcely visible in the mouth, the others 

 very strong, robust, lamelliform, reaching to the margin. 

 Peristome thickened, a little expanded throughout, the mar- 

 gins approaching and connected by a thin callous. Alt. 6^, 

 diam. 2~y 2 mm. (Pupa kraliki Letourneux, Revue et Magazin 

 de Zool. (3), v, 1877, p. 348.) France, Dep. Herault, aux 

 Douze, near Lamalou-les-Bains, under stones; rare. 



According to Letourneux, this species is remarkable not 

 only for the apertural folds which are exactly opposite one 

 another and almost touching, but also by their form ; instead 



