litPtOMMATlNA. 



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532. Diplommatina animula, Godtuia-Atasten. 



Diplommatina animula, Godwiu-Austuii, Proc. Zocl. Soc. 1B92, 



p. 516 ; id., Laud & Freshw. Moll. India, ii, 1897, p. 12, pi. 06, 



tig. 2. 

 Diplommutma {Simca) mtiniula, Kobelt & Mcillendorff, Nachr. 



Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxx, 1898, p. \^^^ ; id. Cat. Pneuui. 1899, 



p. 59 ; Kobelt, Das Tierreicli, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 455. 



Ori(jinal descrijitlon :— " Shell dextriil, ovately fusiform, thin and 

 delicate, and glassy texture; sculpture, rather distant well-marked 

 costulation ; colour whitish grey ; spire moderately high, sides 

 convex, apex blunt ; suture impressed ; whorls (5, tumid, sides very 

 convex, antepenultimate the largest ; constriction in centre, above 

 the aperture ; aperture widely ovate, vertical, angulate on the 

 lower margin of the columella ; the tooth large and well 

 developed ; peristome very strong. 



"Major diam. 1'3; alt. axis 2 mm." 



Hah. Burma: Prowi, Lahupa-Naga Hills, Munipur (Godwin- 

 Austen). 



"This is another minute shell, differing from all others I have 

 seen in the strong peristome and iai-ge columellar tooth. D. deli- 

 cata is its nearest ally." [Godwin-Aiisten.) 



ooo. Diplommatina canarica, Beddome. 



Dij)lo)miiatinii canarica, Beddouie, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 442, 

 pi. 52, tig. 1 ; Hanlev cS: Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, p. xii; 

 PfeiHer, Moii. Pneuni.' Suppl. 3, 1876, p. ;i94 ; Godwin-Austen, 

 Land cN: Fre.shw. Moll. India, i, 1886, p. 175, pi. 46, fius. 3, 3 «. 



Diplommatina kcmurica, Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, 

 Addenda, p. ii. 



Biplummatina {Sinica) canarica, Kobelt & Mollendoiff, Nachr. 

 Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxx, 1898, p. 140; id.. Cat. Pueum. 1899, 

 p. 60 ; Kobelt, Das Tierreich, Lief. 16, 1902, p. 458. 



Orirjincd description: — "Shell dextral, broadly ovate, scarcely 

 or very inconspicuously rimate, flesh-coloured ; wliorls 6^, convex, 

 all except the apiral obtuse one closely, regularly, and sharply 

 costulated; interstices smooth, spire conical; the fifth whorl 

 much the largest, and projecting much more than the penultimate ; 

 the peuultinuite with tlie constriction just in front of the centre 

 of the circular aperture ; peristome shining, continuous round the 

 penultimate whorl, slightly canaliculate in its free portion below ; 

 columellar margin much incurved ; tlie tooth prominent, slightly 

 detlexed : total length yL Juch [2-5 mm.]. 



" Allied to D. carneola (Stoliczka) ; but the columellar margin 

 is very different, and it is a stouter shell." (Beddome.) 



Hah. India : Tellapore, Xorth Canara (Beddome). 



