246 FAUXULUS. 



5. FAUXULUS FRY ANUS (Benson). 



The shell is sinistral, very deeply umbilicate, long ovate- 

 conic, obliquely plicate-striate, the striaa very closely decus- 

 sated spirally; lilac-white, brownish towards the apex, the 

 last whorl ornamented with a brownish band below the 

 periphery. Spire subcylindric-conic, suture impressed, the 

 apex rather obtuse. Twelve narrow, convex whorls, the last 

 one ascending in front, compressed near the aperture, marked 

 longitudinally with two impressed lines; foveate above, be- 

 hind the aperture, with an obtuse crest 011 each side, the base 

 conapressed-carinate around the umbilicus. Aperture vertical, 

 free, triangular-obovate. Peristome thin, expanded through- 

 out, a little reflected, the palatal margin deeply sinuated 

 above, having two deeply entering folds, the lower one deeper ; 

 basal margin with one and columella two, deeply placed. On 

 the parietal wall two long entering lamellae, the inferior one 

 deep, and a tooth towards the columellar angle. Length 8, 

 diam. 4, above aperture 3 mm. (Bens.}. 



South Africa: Bredasdorp, Cape Province (J. Fry). Type 

 in British Museum. 



Pupa fry ana BENS., Ann. and Mag. N. H. (3), xiii, June, 

 1864, p. 495. PFEIFFER, Monogr., vi, p. 319. Jaminia (Faux- 

 ulus) fry ana (Benson) CONNOLLY, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., xi, pt. 

 3, 1912, p. 186 (at the roots of grasses, among stones, Layard). 



F. fryana does not seem to have been taken by recent Cape 

 naturalists. It has not been figured. 



"This sinistrose species is very peculiar, with reference to 

 its deep umbilicus running up to the summit, as in the unique 

 Chinese P. regalis B., its carinate base, and handsome sculp- 

 ture. In some respects it exhibits a relation to the imper- 

 forate P. layardi, especially with reference to the imperfect 

 tube at the top of the aperture, formed by the convergent 

 palatal and parietal plaits. It was discovered at Bredasdorp, 

 at the southern shore of Swellendam, by Mr. John Fry. Mr. 

 Layard reports that the animal is jet-black, very short and 

 thin, the shell being carried on one side, or tilted up in a line 

 with the animal" (Benson}. 



