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haps a trifle more open. It appears to be a form of orcula. 

 Medley's liue figures are copied. 



14. Pupisoma vimontiainnn (Crosse). PL 3, fig. 13. 



Shell having an almost wholly covered umbilical crevice, 

 oval-conic, marked with minute, oblique, very fine strise, vis- 

 ible only under a lens, thin, but little shining, translucent, 

 clear corneous. Spire couvexly conic, the summit obtuse. 

 Suture well marked. Whorls 4, convex, the last rounded, 

 nearly as long as the spire. Aperture subvertical, rounded- 

 semilunar, inside colored like the shell. Peristome simple, 

 with converging margins; columellar margin short, straight, 

 reflected, almost wholly covering the umbilical crevice, whit- 

 ish ; basal and outer margins rounded and sharp. Height a 

 little less than 2, greatest diam. l 1 /^ mm.; length and width 

 of the aperture % mm. (Crosse). 



New Caledonia: neighborhood of Noumea (E. Marie). 

 Helix vimontiana CROSSE, Journ. de Conchyl., xxii, 1874, p. 

 108; xxiii, 1875, p. 217, pi. 9, f. 2. 



Not known to me by specimens. Compare P. orcula. 



15. Pupisoma steudneri (Jickeli). PL 2, figs. 6a-d. 



The irnperforate conic-globose shell is of a somewhat green- 

 ish color, under the lens covered with close, oblique, cuticular 

 longitudinal riblets. The conic spire has an obtuse apex. 

 The 4 inflated whorls are separated by a deep suture. The 

 last whorl forms two-fifths of the total length, descends very 

 slightly in front, and is inconspicuously angular at its periph- 

 ery. The oblique aperture is long-rounded, with a straight, 

 thin peristome, reflected and dilated at the insertion of the 

 columellar margin ; on account of the very strong expansion 

 of the columellar reflection an umbilical crevice may be 

 spoken of. The terminations of the lip converge. On the 

 base of the last whorl a very delicate spiral striation may be 

 observed in some examples, under a very strong lens. Alt. 

 1.75, diam. 2 mm. (Jickeli) . 



Abyssinia: plateau of Rora-Beit-Andu, prov. Hamaszen, 

 under rotting leaves on stones (Jickeli). 



Helix membranacea JICKELI, Mai. Blatter, 1873, p. 102 ; not 

 of Lowe. Helix steudneri JICKELI, Nova Acta Acad. Caes.- 

 Leop.-Carol. Germ. Nat. Cur., vol. 37, 1875, p. 60, pi. 4, f. 21. 



