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and producing an obtuse spire ; the other whorls nearly equal ; 

 color brown; finely wrinkled with oblique strife of growth; 

 aperture ovato-quadrate ; lips subreflected, polished and white 

 within ; subumbilicate ; furnished with eight teeth, two on the 

 pillar within, four on the outer lip within, all of which are 

 visible on the back of the whorl in four pale bands, giving that 

 part a furrowed appearance; and two others on the inter- 

 rupted part of the peristome, the inner one, which is indeed 

 quite within the aperture, being the largest of all, and the 

 other one small and placed at the angle of the outer lip. 

 Length 14 inch (Hutton). 



Shell rimate, subcylindroid, rather thin, obliquely striatu- 

 late, brownish-corneous; spire lengthened, obtusely conic at 

 the apex. Whorls 7, convex, the last scarcely one-third the 

 length, somewhat compressed at the base. Aperture vertical, 

 truncate-oblong, 8-toothed : one lamellifonn, entering, deeply 

 placed parietal and one minute, nodiform subangular tooth 

 on the parietal wall ; two on the columellar ; four long teeth, 

 showing outside, in the palate; peristome white, a little ex- 

 panded. Length 6, diam. 2% mm. (P/r.). 



Afghanistan : under stones among blocks of limestone bor- 

 dering the desert plain of Dusht-i-Be-dowlut at the western 

 end of the Bolan Pass (Hutton). 



Pupa lapidaria HUTTON, Journal Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, 

 xviii, pt. 2, 1849, p. 652. PFEIFFER, Monogr. Hel. Viv., iii, p. 

 546. HANLEY & THEOBALD, Conch. Indica, p. 40, pi. 100, f. 

 10. SOWERBY, Conch. Icon., xx, Pupa, pi. 16, f. 147 ; not pi. 

 4, fig. 32. 



It is very closely allied to the English species Pupa juniperi 

 (Gray), having the teeth arranged much in the same manner, 

 those of the body whorl giving rise externally to the same 

 furrowed or ribbed appearance. It differs, however, in having 

 only 7 whorls instead of 8 or 9, and in having the largest tootli 

 placed well within the aperture on the middle of the body- 

 whorl (Hutton}. 



Probably the locality is in Baluchistan, or at all events near 

 the border. 



