PUPISOMA. 



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Western Ghats and P. lignicola of Burma, though the local- 

 ities are so remote. Both have the same microscopic, in places 

 vermiculate granulation, with delicate striae and partly cuti- 

 cular, low, widely-spaced riblets, and the same broad, short 

 columella, obliquely truncate below. P. lignicola. has the pale 

 gray tint usually called "corneous", while evezardi is much 

 darker, nearly walnut-brown. Some specimens of the latter 

 species are larger than any lignicola seen. 



Blanford discredits the locality "Singhur, Deccan" given 

 by Hanley and Theobald, suspecting that the specimens fig- 

 ured were from Colonel Evezard's original lot. Godwin- 

 Austen and Gude merely quote Blanford. Nobody seems to 

 have seen the characteristic granulation. The specimens fig- 

 ured were collected by Maj. A. Peile, R.A., in the Western 

 Ghats, probably near the original locality. 



Group of Pupisoma orcula. 



No less than eleven species of the orcula type have been 

 described from points between Abyssinia, Annam and Aus- 

 tralia; but in most cases no comparison was made with any 

 other species. Though several forms are represented in our 

 collection by topotypic material, the general comparisons 

 needed cannot be made until much more typical material is 

 available to one observer. It appears likely that P. orcula, 

 will be found to include hueensis, philippinicum, pulvisculum, 

 circumlitum, vimontianum, steudneri and possibly cacharicum. 



3. PUPISOMA JAPONICUM Pilsbry. PI. 2, figs. 11, 12. 



The shell is globose-conic with obtuse summit, umbilicate 

 (the width of umbilicus contained about 7 times in diam. of 

 shell), fragile, pale brownish or olive-buff, delicately striat- 

 ulate but without spiral lines. The whorls are rather strongly 

 convex. Aperture oblique, peristome thin and fragile, the 

 columellar margin broadly expanded and reflected. Length 

 1.55, diam. 1.45 mm. ; S 1 /^ whorls. 



Japan: Hirado, Hizen ; Kashima, Harima (Hirase). South 

 Africa: Maritzburg, Edendale, Karklooff and Ntimbankulu, 

 Natal, commensal with P. orcula on indigenous trees and 

 shrubs (Burnup). 



