136 NANINA INQUINATA. 



NOTE X. 



ON THE HABITAT OF 

 NANINA INQUINATA V. D. BUSCH 



BY 



M. M. SCHEPMAN. 



The habitat of Nanina (Xesta) inguinata seems still some- 

 what uncertain. Philippi who described the species for the 

 first time (Abb. u. Beschr. neuer oder wenig gekannter 

 Conchylien I, pag. 10, pi. 4, Helix tab. T, fig. 4) gives Java 

 as locality , on the authority of Mr. Winter ; this is followed 

 by Pfeiffer (Monogr. Heliceorum viv. I, pag. 46). The spe- 

 cies was not found by Zollinger and has only been men- 

 tioned by Mousson (Mollusca von Java, pag. 16). Reeve 

 (Conch. Ic. fig. 399) and even still Clessin (Nomenclator 

 Heliceorum) give Java as locality, though not one of the 

 rather numerous explorers of this isle, had afterwards col- 

 lected this species. 



Prof, von Martens (Ostas. Landschn., pag. 207) suggests, 

 after seeing a young specimen in the collection of Mousson, 

 that the habitat should be on the Banda isles , and by a 

 new lot of shells, received from G. W. W. C. Baron van 

 Hoëvell, this opinion prooves to be the right one, in as 

 much as the shell has been truly collected there. Amongst 

 shells from several localities, I find a box from Bauda- 

 Neira containing nearly exclusively specimens , which belong 

 without doubt to Nanina inquinata. 



Moreover another box with shells, belonging principally to 

 varieties or allied species of Nanina citrina from Werinama, 

 on Ceram , district Amahei, contains also a number of spe- 

 cimens of N inguinata. They agree all more or less with 

 the figure of Philippi, which is called unsatisfactorely by 

 Mousson, varying in the elevation of the spire, the colour, 

 which is more brownish or yellowish and the number of 

 spots. In a former Note (Vol. XIV, pag. 146) I mentioned 

 a specimen from Timor. If this be really the same species, 

 it would have a rather wide range of distribution , even if 

 we neglect Java, which is probably erroneous. 



I may still relate, that I have seen some time ago, a 

 few specimens from one of the other Banda isles, in a 

 private collection. 



Rhoon, July 1894. 



Notes from tlie I^eyden IMuseum, Vol. XVI. 



