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and thence to Chuprah in Beliar. Lucknow and Behar (under 

 bark of trees, Mainwarmg) ; N.W. Bengal {SioUczTca). Japan 

 (Hirase). S. Africa : Cape, Natal, Transvaal, Ehodesia {Burnup, 

 Gonolly, and others). 



I have already in the description of the genus referred to the 

 remarkable distribution of this species and given my reasons for 

 attributing its presence in such widely separated localities as 

 Japan and South Africa to the agency of man. 



52. Pupisoma evezardi, Blanford. 



Pupa evezardi, (Blauford) Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1875, 



pi. 101, figs. 5, 6. 

 Pupa {Pupisoma) evezardi, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 192; 



Bkndford, J. A. S. B. xlix, 1880, p. 199. 

 Pupisoma evezardi, Godwin-Austen, Land & Freshw. Moll. India, 



ii, 1910, p. 301. 



Original description :—'' Tdfiin imperforata, vix subrimata, 

 conoideo-ovata, tenuis, cornea, lineis elevatis irregularibus fili- 

 formibus obliquis ornata. Spira snbtus subcylindracea, superne 

 conoidea, latetibus convexis, apice obtuso, sutura impressa. Anfr. 

 4i, convexi, regulariter crescentes, ultimus parum major, peri- 

 pheria atque basi rotundatus, baud antice descendens. Apertura 

 diagonalis, truncato-rotunda, edentula ; peristoma tenue, rectum, 

 expansiusculum, marginibus couniventibas, columellari verticah, 

 ad basin subtorto, adnato-reflexo, regionem umbilicalpm tegente. 



" Long. 2|, diam. fere 2, long. ap. 1 mm." {Blanford.) 



Hah. *India : Khandalla, between Bombay and Poona 

 (Evezard). ... 



" Shell imperforate, with scarcely even a trace of nmation m 

 the umbilical region, conoidly ovate," thin, horny, with raised hair- 

 like oblique lines, ratber irregularly disposed, on all the whorls. 

 Spire nearly cvlindrical below, conoidal above, the sides convex, 

 apex blunt, suture impressed. Wborls 4|, convex; increasing in 

 size regularly; the last but little larger than the penultimate, 

 rounded at the periphery and below, not descending in front. 

 Aperture diagonal, nearly circular, but truncated above, without 

 teeth ; peristome thin, all in one plane, slightly expanded, margins 

 converging ; columellar vertical above, slightly twisted below, re- 

 flected and united to the whorl so as completely to cover the 



umbilicus. . r^ i ^ ■ 



" If the form represented by Hanley m the Conchologia 

 Indica' be precisely the same as that described above, I am 

 inclined to question the locality given, " Singhur " or, as 

 Mr. Theobald prefers writing it, " Synghar," presumably Smgarh 

 near Poona. The original specimens were found by Col. Evezard 

 at Karkalla, near Khandalla, at the head of the Bor-Ghat ; 

 and I suspect that Hanley's figure was taken from one of them. 

 There are two or three alHed forms found in the Sybadri range 



