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been obtaiued on the Eastern Himalayan range north of the Brah- 

 maputra until long. 93° E. is reached in the Datla Hills, where I 

 found P. imhricifi'va, var. Including the subgenera, thence east- 

 ward and from the western shore of the Bay of Bengal and Malay 

 Peninsula it extends to New Guinea and Australia. 



Species from Burmah, Tenasserim, and Nicobars. 



PrrpiNA AKULA, Benson. (Plate LXIX. figs. 1, 1 a, x 4, from type 

 specimen.) 



Pupina arula, Bs. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xvii. p. 230 (March 

 1856). 



Conch. Ind. p. 4, pi. vii. fig. 4 : Burmah (locality incorrect). Not 

 at all like the type. 



Theobald, Cat. Conch. Ind. p. 41. 



Nevill, Hand-list, p. 300. no. 12, from Buket Pondong, Perak. 



Blanford, J. A. S. B. 



Do. A. & M. N. Hist. vol. xiii. p. 460 (1864). 



Pfr. Mon. Pneum. vol. ii. p. 95. 



Conch. Icon., Pupinidae, pi. i. fig. 5 (not very good). 



Original description : — " Testa imperforata, conoideo-ovata, longi- 

 tudinaliter striatula, nitidissima, fusco-rubella, apice conoideo, acuto, 

 sutura calloso-marginata ; anfractihus 6, idtimo spiram subtequante, 

 antice breviter ascendente ; apertura circidari, angulo superiori acuto 

 adjecto, callo parietali superne lamella intrante munito ; columella 

 profunde incisa, canalem extus apparentem, lingua lata parietali 

 obtectum, callis(pie duobus divergentibus marginatum, exhibente ; peri- 

 stomate obtiiso, expansiusculo, extus marginato, margine dextro supra 

 medium arcuato ; basifoveata. Operculo — ? 



" Long. 9, diam. 5 mill. 



'■'■ Hab. ad Yunglaw, in valle Tenasserim, raro occurrens. 



" It has much affinity with P. aurea, Hinds, the superior canal 

 being rather simulated than actually developed, and being formed 

 by an angle, at the top of the otherwise circular aperture, cut off 

 from the lower portion, in part, by the parietal lamina." 



Mr. Aldrich sent me two specimens of P. arula from the Caves 

 in Perak ; they agree with the type, and have the transverse ribbing 

 mentioned by Benson. 



The Benson collection at Cambridge now contains only two 

 species of Pupina, viz., two examples of imhricifera, Bs. (wrongly 

 labelled umbricifera), and one specimen oi arula,'Bs,, locality wrongly 

 given as India, whereas it came from Tenasserim. Benson's types 

 of artata and peguensis appear, therefore, to have been lost. This 

 P. arula 1 was very glad to see ; there is much that is distinctive 

 about it, and I have been able to figure it, thanks to Mr. Gwatkin, 

 of the Museum at Cambridge. It is of the same size as that given 

 in the original description (9 mm.), large and with distinct fine 

 ribbing. Benson says " longitiidinaliter striatula " ; it is of a dark 



