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sienna colour and polished. It cannot be confounded with P. pe- 

 guensis, which is 6 mm., and Benson says (1860), at the end of his 

 description of this last, that it differs from anda in its smaller size, 

 form, proportions, translucence, and absence of sculpture. 



In Mr. W. T. Blauford's collection there is a good series of 

 P. 2)eguensis, agreeing with Benson's description, but rather smaller 

 in size, being 5"5 mm. as against 6 mm.; these are all from Henzada 

 and Kama on the Irrawadd\\ 



The figure of P. anda in the Conch. Indica, pi. vii. fig. 4, is 

 not like the type in form, and certainly not in coloration, being 

 coloured grey, the size corresponding, viz. 9 mm. The figure of 

 artata (fig. 5) must be something else. Fig. 6, same plate, is P. 

 hlanfordi, Theobald. The supposed type of this shell is now in the 

 Natural History Museum, and came out of Theobald's collection ; 

 this I have figured. It is an old worn shell o'o mm. long, the 

 colour gone ; the ayjerture is also immature ; the very am|)le body- 

 whorl is not at all like any of the specimens I have examined from 

 Pegu. I very much doubt its being the shell described from Pegu. 

 Mr. Theobald's original description, in the J. A. S. B. 1864, p. 247, 

 is so short that it is no assistance : "■ poUtissima, Jlavescenii-coniea" 

 does not agree with the supposed type. 



I have in ray collection two specimens received many years ago 

 from Mr. W. T. Blanford, and named by him hlanfordi from Pegu, 

 and a note on same label " near P. artata, Bs." They appear to me 

 to be P. peguensis, and not at all like the Moulmain shell. 



Pttpina aetata, Benson. (Plate LXIX. figs. 6, 6 a, 6 6.) 



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

 1856); id. ibid. vol. iv. p. 94 (August 1859). 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch, vol. iii. pi. 265. fig. 1. 



Pfeiffcr, Mon. Pneum. vol. ii. p. 96. 



Conch. Ind. pi. vii. fig. 5. 



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



Nevill, Hand-list, p. 301. 



Conch. Icon., Pupinidse, pi. i. fig. 3, is not like the species, more 

 like peguemis. 



Blanford, A. M. N. H. vol. xiii. p. 460 (June 1864). He says 

 " P. artata also occurs in Arakan and throughout the Irrawaddy 

 valley as far north as Ava. It is a somewhat variable shell — 

 one variety, from the neighbourhood of Prome and Thayet Myo, 

 being somewhat more globose than the type, and having a rich 

 orange peristome."' 



Original description : — " Testa imperforata, j>i/2^?yoj*»u', ovato- 

 acuminata, politissiina, fusco-cornea, transhicente, vel hyalina ; spira 

 ovato-conoidea, apice obtusiuscido, sutura callosa, lineari ; anfractibus 

 oki convexiusculis, ultimo ^ testce partem superante ; apertura verti- 

 cali, circidari, hicanalicidata ; peristomate obtusiuscido, margine 

 parietali superne linguam acutam, callo verticali elongato, cum 



