30 ORCULA. 



The original locality, Nazereth, is dubious, but doubtless it 

 occurs in Palestine. 



Var. obesa Blanck. More egg-shaped than club-shaped, 11 

 mm. long, 5 in diameter; columellar margin more oblique 

 than in the type of the species. The true P. orientalis is 

 otherwise not now known from Syria, as the specimens cited 

 under this name from Aleppo by Mousson do not belong to it, 

 according to Bernhardt, and have been distinguished by him 

 as P. moussoni Reinh. Syria : Bab el Haua between Djisr el 

 Hadid in Antiochia and Bet el Ma. 3 {Pupa orientalis var. 

 obesa Blanckenhorn, Naehbl. d. mal. Ges., xxi, June 1889, 

 p. 79). The name is preoccupied. 



Var. nitida Mousson. Straightly cylindric, lower whorls 

 scarcely striatulate, glossy; aperture broadly semiovate; 2 

 distinct folds on the columella. Slope of the littoral range 

 of Haleb, upper Mesopotamia, Dr. Schlaefli (Mousson) . 



Var. cedrorum West. Shell very widely rimate, thick, en- 

 tirely cylindric, with rounded summit, strong, very finely, 

 weakly striate high above, the rest smooth, yellowish white. 

 9!/o nearly flat whorls, a little angular at the impressed 

 suture, very slowly increasing, the last rounded below, above 

 nearly horizontal (very little ascending). Aperture vertical, 

 nearly semicircular, slightly narrowed below, with a very 

 long and strong parietal lamella and two columellar lamellae, 

 the outer ends of which can be seen only in an oblique view. 

 Peristome somewhat thickened, the margins not very unequal, 

 joined by a thin callus, somewhat thickened near the outer 

 insertion. Length 11, diam. 4 mm. Lebanon (West.). 



P. doliolum var. cedrorum Westerlund, Fauna, 1 Supple- 

 ment, 1890, p. 141. — [Orcula orientalis var.] "cedretorum 

 Westerlund," Germain, Moll. terr. et fluv. de Syrie, i, 1921, 

 p. 328. 



10&. Orcula s. coerulescens (Naegele). PI. 5, figs. 6, 7. 



Differs from the type by the smaller length and generally 

 bluish color. Serf, upper Mesopotamia (Naegele). 



Pupa (Orcula) orientalis Parr. var. coerulescens Naegele, 

 Nachrichtsbl. d. malak. Ges., vol. 42, Dec. 1910, p. 151. 



A topotype figured measures, length 9.8, diam. 4.6 mm., 

 w r ith 9% whorls, those of the upper cone very finely striate, 

 buff, the later whorls slate-violet to purple-drab. The lip is 



