186 Annals of the South African Museum. 



COCHLICELLA ACUTA (Milller). 



I believe that the only South African locality for this Mediterranean 

 species is St. James, Cape Peninsula, where a little colony was 

 discovered by the present writer in 1909 under spare sleepers near the 

 railway station, in company with P. ceUaria, which found the little 

 helicoids a particularly appetising luxury. Dr. Periuguey courteously 

 informs me that the sleepers have disappeared, but that C. aciita is 

 now to be found on Eichardia (the beautiful white arum, locally 

 known as Pig-lily) in the vicinity of the station. 



The sleepers are supposed to have been brought either from 

 Australia or the Knysna forest, which does not account for the intro- 

 duction of this species, but the shells are remarkably thin and fragile, 

 in great contrast to the solid Mediterranean form. 



PUPISOMA JAPONICUM Pilsbry. 



A species inseparable from this Eastern form has evidently been 

 long naturalised in Natal, as it is widely distributed far from the 

 haunts of man, as well as in orchards in the neighbourhood of big 

 towns. The localities given by Burnup are Pietermaritzburg, Edendale, 

 Karkloof, and N'timbankulu. 



PUPISOMA ORCULA (Benson). 



This Indian species is still more widely distributed than the fore- 

 going, with which it has been found in all the above-mentioned locali- 

 ties. It has also been identified from Richmond and Dargle in Natal ; 

 Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown in the Cape Province ; Fountains, 

 Pretoria ; and the Eaiu Forest, Victoria Falls. 



VALLONIA EXCENTRICA Sterki. 



Every South African specimen of Vallonia, formerly attributed to 

 pulchella, which has been subjected to expert examination has proved 

 to belong to Sterki's species. 



Although first found by Benson at High Constantia as long ago as 

 1846, it does not appear to have travelled far from civilisation, its 

 distribution being confined to the near vicinity of large towns, and 

 easily attributable to quite a mild tornado of that peculiarly dusty 

 type which adds so little to the doubtful charms of life on the veldt. 

 Thus it is found at Fountains, Pretoria, where original bush is inter- 



