PUNCTUM 151 



1879. Napwus ohscurus, Miill. : Kr6l, Vcrhandl. Zool.-hol. 



Gescll. Wien, xxviii, Abhaiidl., j). 7. 

 1894. Bulimus perexilis, Locard :) IjOCard, Coq. Terrest. 

 1894. Bulimus centralis, Locard: J France, p. 242. (Ann. 



Soc. Agric. Lyon, Ser. VII, torn, iii, p. 130.) 

 1904. Bulindnus (Ena) ohscurus, Miill. : Kobelt, in Ross- 



massler, Icon., xi, p. 214. 



First recorded as British in 1674, by M. Lister (Phil. 



Trans., ix, p. 99, pi. ii, f. 8). 

 British Distribution in Time : Pleistocene to Recent. 



(Division : Sigmurethra.) 



Fam. : ENDODONTID^. 



Genus : 1. PUNCTUM, Morse. 



Etym. : — Lat. punctus, pierced with a hole. 

 Type :— Helix minutissima, Lea = pygmcea, Drap. 

 {Helix, Zonites, etc., vett. auctt.) 



1833. Discus [pars] : Fitzinger, Beitr. Landesh. Oesterr., iii, 



p. 99. 



1837. Delomphalus, Ag., subg. 8 of Helix [pars] : Charpentier, 

 . Neue Denkschr. Ally. Scfnceiz. Gesell., i 



' [no. 2], p. 12. 



1837. Eyryomphala [sic], B., subg. 4 of Helix [pars] : Beck, 



Index Moll, p. 8. 

 1837. Patula [pars] : Held, Isis, xxx, hft. 12, col. 916. 

 I 1847. Euryomphala, subg. of Helix [pars] : Beck, Amil. Ber. 

 I 24. Versamm. Deutsch. Naturf., p. 122. 



' 1864, Punctum : Morse, Journ. Portland Soc, i, pp. 5 & 27, 

 I text figs., and pi. ii, f. 1, for P. niinutissima. 



Lea [=; Helix pygmwa, Drap.]. 

 1876. Patularia, I. Gruppe of Patula [pars] : Clessin, Deutsch. 

 Excur. Moll. Fauna, p. 86. 

 j . 1885. Microphysa, Albers [pars] : W. G. Binney, Bull. U.S. 



Nat. Mus., xxviii, p. 71. 

 I 1889. Pullastra, Pfr. [err. typ. for Patulastra] : We.sterlund, 

 Fauna Paldarct. Region, ii, p. 6 as synonym 

 of Punctum. 



1. Punctum pygmaeum (Draparnaud). 

 Etym. : — Lat. pygmcBUs, a jDigmy. 



1801. Helix pygma'a [n. sp.] : Draparnaud, Tahl. Moll. 



France, p. 93. 

 1805. Helix py(/niea : Draparnaud, Hist. Moll. France, p. 114, 



pi. viii, f. 8-10. 



