196 CYCLOPnoiiiD.^:. 



282. Pupina limitanea, Godivin-Austen. 



Pupina limitaneus, Godwin- Austen, Laud & Fresh w. Moll. India,, 

 ii, 1897, p. 40, pi. 69, fig. 4. 



Pupinu {7 ylutoec/ms) limitanea, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nacbr. 

 Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 146 ; id.. Cat. Pneum. 1899, 

 p. 42 ; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 316. 



Original description: — " Shell ovately conoid, shiuing polislied 

 surface; sculpture none; colour pale ochre to dull whitish, black 

 where parts of animal remain, probably black when living ; spire 

 conicj sides convex, apex subobtuse ; suture shallow, linear ; 

 whorls 5^, the last twice as high as the spire ; aperture circular, 

 at suture a vertical slit, formed by the thickened upper margin 

 and a short vertical lamella ; columella with a deep narrow 

 incision seen from front, the frontal flap narrow ; ]ieristome thick 

 and obtuse. 



"Major diaiu. 3, alt. axis 5 mm. 



" Smallest ,, 3, ,, 4-5 mm." 



Hah. Eastern frontier of Burma and Siam (WoodtJiorpe). 



" This species is nearest to P.peguensis, but it is smaller, different 

 in form, proportion of whorls, and the columellar slit is narrower." 

 ( Godwin- Austen.) 



283. Pupina nicol)arica, Pfeiffer. 



Pupina [Re^istoma) nicobarica, Pfeiffer, Proc. Zool. Soc. lS'y2, 



p. 145. 

 Pegidoma 7iicoharicum, Pfeiffer, Cat. Phaueropn. llrit. Mas. 1852,. 



p. 104; id., Mod. Pneum. 1852, p. 147; Adams, Gen. Eec. 



Moll, ii, 1856, p. 289; MiJrcb, Jouru. Conclivl. xxiv, 1876, 



p. 362. 

 Pupina nicobarica, Pfeiffer, Conch. -Cab., Cyclostoiuaceen, 1854, 



p. 388, pi. 48, tigs. 28-31 ; lleeve, Conch. Icon, xx, 1876, pi. 3, 



fig. 26; Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 299 (+var. major); 



(lodwin-Austen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 455; id., Land & 



Fresh w. Moll. India, ii. 18!)7, p. 42. 

 Pegisto7na nicobarica, Frauenfeld, Verb. K. K. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



xix, 1869, p. 879. 

 Pupina {Tylotoechtts) nicobarica, Kobelt & MoUeudorff, Naclir. 



Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxix, 1897, p. 146; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, 



p. 42; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 318. 



Original description: — "P. te^ta imperforata, ovato-coiiica, 

 solidula, glaberrima, iiitida, pallide isabellina; spira coiivexa. 



Fig. 30. — Pupina nicobarica. 



sursum conica, acutiuscula ; sutura lineari ; anfr. 5, vix convexi- 

 usculis, vdtimo oblique descendente, antice breviter ascendente. 



