PUPISOMA. 



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ing is said of spiral strive, but these have been overlooked by 

 some other describers of Pupisoma. Issel's figures having 

 been copied in a former volume are not repeated here. 



10. PUPISOMA ORCULA (Benson). PL 2, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 



Shell slightly perforate, conic-globose, corneous, translucent, 

 scabrous, obliquely irregularly costulate-striate. Apex obtuse. 

 Whorls Sy 2 , convex, the last rounded, suture deep. Aper- 

 ture oblique, rounded, scarcely as long as the spire; peri- 

 storne thin, acute, the columellar margin reflected, half cover- 

 ing the perforation. Diam. 2, axis 2 mm. (Benson}. 



Length 2.05, diam. 2 mm.; 3% whorls (Kyoto, Japan). 



Length 1.8, diam. 1.75 mm.; 3% whorls (Maritzburg). 



Japan: Kyoto, Yamashiro (Hirase). 



India: Between Jounpore and Benares, on trunks of 

 mango trees (Lieut. Burkinyoung) ; Dinapur, near Patua 

 and in mango groves from Barrackpur, in Bengal, to the 

 borders of Sikkim and thence to Chuprah in Bahar (Dr. J. 

 F. Bacon). 



Java (Burnup) ; Philippines; Savu I. (near Timor) (A. 

 N. S. P.). 



South Africa: Cape of Good Hope at Port Elizabeth 

 (Crawford) and Grahamstown (Parquhar). Natal: Maritz- 

 burg, Ntimbankulu, Dargle, Edendale, Game Pass (Burnup) ; 

 Eichmond (Wakefield, Cooper); Karkloof (Taynton). Pre- 

 toria, Transvaal (Connolly). Victoria Falls, Ehodesia (War- 

 ren). 



Helix orcula BENSON, Ann. Mag. N. H. (2), vi, Oct. 1850, 

 p. 251. --REEVE, Couch. Icon., vii, 1853, pi. 174, f. 1176.- 

 PFEIPFER, Conch. Cab., Helix, iii, 1854, p. 357, pi. 136, f. 18. 

 -HANLEY & THEOBALD, Conch. Indica, 1874, pi. 87, f. 1, 4.- 

 Pupisoma orcula (Bens.), GODWIN-AUSTEN, Land and Fresh- 

 water Moll. India, ii, 1910, p. 301. HIRASE, Conchol. Maga- 

 zine, iii, 1909, p. 26, pi. 9, f. 30, 31. BURNUP, Proc. Malac. 

 Soc. Lond., x, 1912, p. 45. CONNOLLY, Ann. S. African Mus., 

 xi, 1912, p. 159, left fig. 



The oblique stria? are unequal and irregularly spaced. 

 Under the microscope impressed spiral lines are seen, weak 



