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12. PUPA CORTICARIA, Say. 



Plate LXXII. Figuke 4. 



P. testa albido-cornea, sub-cylindracea, obtusa ; anfracti- 

 bus quinque ; apertura sub-Ojbiculari ; columella dente 

 unico, prope angulum externum, armata ; et ad angulum 

 internum sub-dentata ; labro reflexo ; umbilico perforate. 



SYNONYMS AND REFEKENCES. 



Odostomia corticaria, Say, Nich. Encyc. IV. pi. 4, f. 5. 

 Fiipa corticaria, Gould, Boston Journ. III. 397, pi. 3, f. 19. 



De Kay, New York Report, 31. 



KiJSTEK, ia Chemn. 2d ed. tab. 13, figs. 19-20. 



Pfeiffek, Monog. Helic. Viv. II. 35S. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Animal. Superior tentacles long and club-shaped, 

 the inferior short and thick. Color whitish, dai-ker upon 

 the head and tentacles. 



Shell whitish, shining, cyhudrical, obtuse at the apex; 

 whorls rather more than five, convex ; suture well im- 

 pressed ; aperture lateral, two-thirds as wide as the last 

 whorl, sub-orbicular, with a single tooth on the pillar lip, 

 near the centre, and a toothlike enlargement near the 

 umbilical termination of the Up ; lip white, reflected ; 

 umbilicus very minutely perforated. 



Length one-tenth, transverse diameter one-twentieth, 

 of an inch. 



Geographical Distribution. Found in the Middle 

 Atlantic States, and those north of the Ohio. I also 



