120 LAURIA, CANARY ISLANDS. 



locality] ; and on wet rocks in the Pinal, near to the edge 

 of the great Caldeira, at the head of the small stream which 

 supplies the Levada of the Banda. Hierro, in the dense 

 forest region of El Golfo. (Wollaston). 



Pupa pythiella Mousson, Rev. Faime Malac. Canaries 1872, 

 p. 127, pi. 6, figs 22, 23.— Pfr., Monogr. viii, p. 389; Novit. 

 Conch, iv, p. 107, pi. 125, f. 22. 23.— Wollaston, Test. Atl. 

 p. 454. 



The shell is smaller and narrower than L. casta in a, with 

 the teeth more fully developed. The angular lamella is 

 usually joined to the lip insertion by a callus. Basal fold is 

 well developed. The base, and usually the summit, are light 

 olivaceous, the remainder brown, varying in shade, but with 

 an olivaceous tinge. Two specimens from the type locality 

 measure — 



Length 2.8, diam. 1.6 mm.; barely 6 whorls. 



Length 2.6, diam. 1.5 mm. 



A young shell (fig. 4) shows three basal lamina? at intervals 

 of about one-eighth of a whorl. 



50. Lauria taeniata (Shuttl). PI. 15, fig. 2. 



Shell rimate-umbilicate, globosely ovate, thin, slightly stria- 

 tulate, pellucid, somewhat glossy, pale corneous zoned with 

 a wide chestnut band visible on all the whorls; spire obtuse, 

 whorls 6, rather flat, the last angularly compressed at base 

 around the umbilicus. Aperture subovate, 5-plicate: 1 

 strong, bent angular lamella : 1 strong parietal, another very 

 minute, deeply immersed, generally added. 1 strong, in- 

 flexed columella!"; 2 immersed palatals, one strong, the other 

 minute. Peristome flesh-colored, thickened, a little expanded, 

 the right margin flexuous above. Length about 2%, width 

 1% mm.; aperture 1 mm. long (Shuttl.). 



Canary Islands: Teneriffe and Palma under dead leaves 

 (Blauner); Teneriffe, in the wood at La Esperanza, near 

 Laguna (Wollaston). 



Pupa taeniata Shuttleworth, Diagnosen Neuer Mollusken 

 No. 1 (P. 10 of separate), in Mittheil. naturforseh. Ges. 

 Bern, 1852, p. 144. — Pfr., Monogr. iii. 549. — Mousson, Rev. 



