136 GASTROCOPTA, INDIA, ETC. 



conically-rounded apex. Whorls 5, the upper three convex, 

 penult flatter, last whorl forming one-third the length, com- 

 pressed basally, having two pits forward. Aperture slightly 

 oblique, oblong, narrowed by 4 teeth : one pliciform parietal, 

 one coluniellar, two deep, short palatals. Peristome whitish, 

 shortly expanded. Length 2, diam. 1 mm. (Pfr.). 



India : Barrackpore. 



Pupa indica PFR., P. Z. S., 1854, p. 295 ; Mon. Hel. Viv., iv, 

 1859, p. 679. - - HANLEY and THEOBALD, Conch. Indica, pi. 

 160, f. 8.--SOWERBY, Conch. Icon., Pupa, pi. 7, f. 63. Not 

 Pupa indica Benson, 1849. --Pupilla barrackporensis GUDE, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Moll., ii, 1914, p. 285. 



The generic position is uncertain. I have not seen speci- 

 mens. 



81. GASTROCOPTA BATHYODON (Benson). PI. 26, fig. 14; pi. 

 29, fig. 8. 



Shell deeply rimate-perforate, ovate-conic, obliquely stri- 

 atulate, brown-corneous, translucent. Spire conic, the apex 

 obtuse, suture rather deep ; whorls 5, convex, the last ascend- 

 ing in front, a little compressed around the excavated um- 

 bilicus. Aperture square-ovate, margins expanded, somewhat 

 reflected, of the color of the shell, joined above by an ex- 

 panded parietal callous, 4-toothed : one entering, larger pari- 

 etal, two minute, rather remote palatals, and one deeply 

 placed coluniellar. Length 3, diam. 2 mm. (Benson). 



India: Teluk Sendur, near Hoshungabad, not far from the 

 Nerbudda River; also Mul River, western India (Theobald). 



Pupa bathyodon BENS., Ann. Mag. N. H. (3), xii, 1863, p. 

 426. - - HANLEY and THEOBALD, Conch. Indica, 1874, pi. 100, 

 f. 7. SOWERBY, Conch. Icon., xx, 1876, Pupa, pi. 4, f. 33 ; pi. 

 16, f. 152. - - Bifidaria bathyodon Benson, GUDE, Fauna of 

 British India, Mollusca, ii, 1914, p. 290. 



The figures in Conchologia Indica and C. Tconica show a 

 fifth tooth, the basal fold, at the base of the columella. It is 

 present also in a specimen (pi. 26, fig. 14) in the Indian Mu- 

 seum, from the Nerbudda Valley, collected by W. Theobald 

 (Nevill, Handlist Moll. Ind. Mus., p. 192). The angular and 



