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Type in British Museum. 



Hab. NATAL. Dargle (Burnup). 



GENUS PHOETION, Preston, 1910. 



(A.M.N.H. vi. p. 531.) 

 ( = Pliasis, Albers, 1850, nee Hubner, in Lepidoptera, 1816.) 



Type of Genus, Ph. menJceanum (Pfr.). 



217. PHORTION CAPENSE (Pfeiffer). [S.A.M.] 



1841 Helix capensis, Pfr., Symb. i. p. 40. D. 



1848 (=iiromta, Zgl. in litt.), Pfr., Mon. Hel. 



i. p. GO. D. 



1849 Conch. Cab. p.220.pl.34 (1848), f.9-11. D.F. 



1850 Bs., A.M.N.H. v. p. 217. N. 



1851 ,, Eve., Conch. Icon. pi. 43, f. 202. D.F. 

 1853 ,, ( = littoricola, Bs. in litt.), Pfr., Mon. Hel. 



iii. p. 66. 



1887 Helix (Pclla) capcnsis, Pfr., Tryon, Man. of Conch, iii. p. 103. 

 pi. 20, f. 61. D.F. 



Type in Stuttgart Museum. 



Hab. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (coll. Pfeiffer). Cape Town and Cape 

 Peninsula (very common). Eobben I. (Fisk). Dassen I. (Connolly). 

 Port Elizabeth to Alexandria (Crawford). Port Alfred (Penther). 

 Widely distributed from Port Elizabeth to Namaland. Ph. paludi- 

 cola (Bs.) is possibly a small, and uitenhagen.se (Krs.) a high-spired, 

 form of capcnsc, while namaquanum (von Mts.) appears to be little 

 more than a variety of the same species, of which examples quite as 

 large as namaquanum are known from Muizenberg. 



218. PHORTION MENKEANUM (Pfeiffer). [S.A.M.] 



1842 Helix menkeana, Pfr. (H. capensis, Menke, ined.), Pfr., Symb. 



ii. p. 33. D. 

 1848 Mou. Hel. i. p. 55. D. 



Krs., Siidafr. Moll. p. 75. N. 



1852 ,, Conch. Cab. p. 229. pi. 133, f. 5, 6. pi. Ill 



(1850), f. 1-5. D.F. 



,, Eve., Conch. Icon. pi. 106, f. 591. D.F. 

 1887 Helix (Pellet] menkeana, Pfr., Tryon, Man. of Conch, iii. p. 108. 



pi. 21, f. 98. D.F. 



1893 PJiasis menkeana, Pfr., Pilsb., Man. of Conch, ix. p. 37. pi. 10, 

 f. 1-3. F. 



