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37. NESOPUPA MOELLENDORFFI (Boettger). PL 32, figs. 4, 5. 



Shell small, shortly punctate-rimate, conic-oval, thin, cor- 

 neous-fulvous, silky. Spire conic with moderately convex 

 sides, the apex rather acute. Whorls 4 1 /, a little convex, 

 separated by a deep suture, striatulate and ornamented with, 

 very oblique, distant, deciduous riblets, the last whorl two- 

 fifths the altitude, very slightly ascending to the aperture., 

 the middle part spirally impressed and somewhat compressed 

 at the side below. Aperture oblique, somewhat heart-shaped, 

 with 5 to 7 whitish teeth: on the parietal wall 2 or 3, the 

 middle one lamelliform, receding, longer, the left tooth small, 

 sometimes disappearing, the right or angular emerging and 

 either contiguous to or connected with the upper lip margin ; 

 upper columellar lamella strong, above the middle of the 

 columella, the lower one small and sub-basal, sometimes dis- 

 appearing; palatals two, distant, lamelliform. Peristome 

 acute, little expanded, the middle of the right margin a little 

 drawn forward. 



Length 11/2, diam. %, alt. aperture 1/2 mm. (Boettger), 



Philippines: Mt. Licos, Cebu. Also lives on Siquijor, Min- 

 danao, Masbate, Luzon, Katanduanes. 



Ptychochilus moellendorffi BOETTGER, Bericht Senck. Ges., 

 1890, p. 252, pi. 9, f. 4. Vertigo moellendorffi Bttg., MOEL- 

 LENDORPF, Abh. nat. Ges. Gorlitz, xxii, 1898, p. 152. 



'Thinner shelled, narrower and more slender than all the 

 rest of the species" according to Boettger, whose figures are 

 copied. 



Very close to N. moreleti, probably not specifically distinct. 



38. NESOPUPA NANNODES (Quadras & Moellendorff), u. sp. 

 PI. 32, fig. 13. 



The shell is broadly rimate, oblong, the spire tapering 

 slowly below, then rapidly to the obtuse apex ; light brown. 

 Sculpture of fine, close rib-striae, straight, oblique, a little 

 paler and narrower than the intervals, the first 1% whorls 

 smoothish. The whorls are strongly convex, parted by a deep 

 suture, the last slightly pitted behind the lip over the upper 

 palatal fold. The aperture is subvertical, 6-toothed : angular 



