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HENRY CLIFDEN BURNUP. 



In general appearance, without regard to detail, var. 

 contracta is much like a diminutive E. obovata P/V., 

 but the arrangement of the apertural armature is quite 

 distinct. 



Ennea arnoldi Stm-any. Text-figs. 



Ennea arnoldi Sturatiy. Anz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wieu (1898), No. 

 xvi, p. 158 (reprint p. 6) ; Stuvany, Siidafrik. Moll. (1898), p. 28, 

 pi. ii, figs. 26-30; Connolly, Ann. S. Af. Mns., vol. xi (1912), p. 67. 



From Miss Phyllis Radford I have received two shells. 



A B 



A. Specimen from Tongaat. B. Specimen from East London. 



collected by her at East London, which at first appeared new 

 to me, but a closer examination, and comparison with the 

 shells in the Natal Museum, have convinced me that they can 

 but belong to this species ; and the differences between them 

 and typical shells do not seem to be of sufficient importance 

 to wai-rant a varietal name. The new locality, East London, 

 then, may be added to the localities cited by Connolly in his 

 Revised Reference List. 



The chief differences are the less cylindrical form of Miss 

 Radford's shells, with sharper apex, the more oblique aperture, 

 and the absence of the intense constriction behind the peri- 

 stome at the base. The species varies considerably in size 

 and in relative width, two of the specimens of which Sturany 

 gives the dimensions being even shorter, and one of them 



