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different, being compressed, vertical, and more lateral and produced ; 

 the incised canal at tlie columella is also more covered by the 

 triangular callositj', above which it is less compressed and more 

 evenly expanded ; from P. artuta by its size, proportions, and 

 additional whorl, but especially by the quite different characters of 

 the two callosities ; the parietal callosity especially is quite different, 

 being much longer (it reaches beyond the middle of the last whorl), 

 more vertical, and much more laterally inclined ; indeed it extends 

 further back than the peristome. 



'■'Habitat. Asadden lliver. 



"■ Long. 8| ; diam. 5 ; apart, (intus) 2 mill." 



In J. A. S. B, 1881, p. 148, Nevill writes :— " I have nothing to 

 add to my above given descrij)tion of this very distinct species, but 

 it: is necessary for me to correct my altogether mistaken reading of 

 the original label of the locality sent me by its discoverer Surgeon- 

 Major E. Hungerford. It should read : Hsaddenkoo, Salween 

 Valley." 



PupiNA NicoBAKiCA, Pf'r. (Plate LXIX. fig. 8.) 



JRegistoma nicoharica, Pfeiffer, P. Z. S. p. 145 (1852), 

 Gray, Phan. p. 104 (1852). 

 Adams, Gen. p. 289 (1858). 

 Pfr. Mon. Pneum. vol. i. p. 147 (1852). 

 Pupina nicoharica. Conch. Icon. pi. iii. fig. 26. 

 Nevill's Hand-list, p. 999 (1878) ; ditto, emended. 

 Under this name Nevill gives two varieties, see ' Mollusca of the 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands ' : — 



Var. nana, Nevill, MS., G.-A. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 455. 



Long. 4*6, diam. 2*5 mm. 



Var. evertata, Nevill, MS., G.-A. 



Both in the Calcutta Museum, from Great Nicobar. 



Var. alhina, Xevill, MS. in coll. De Poepstorff. 



Original description : — " P. testa imperforata, ovato-conica, soli- 

 (lula, glaherrima, wtida, pallide isahellina ; spira convexa, sursnm 

 conica, acutiuscula ; sutura lineari ; anfr. 5, vix convexiusculis, 

 ultimo oblique deseendente, antice hreviter ascendente, hasi rotunda to ; 

 apertura suhveriirali, circidari, nodulo calloso minuto juxta inser- 

 tionem martinis dextri coarctata; perist. simplice, vix expansiuscido, 

 margine columellari subiticrassato, incisura brevi, sidtascendente a 

 hasali separata. 



" Long. (), diam. W mill. 



" From the IS'icobar Islands." 



