280 EN'iD.i;. 



Geuus EDOUARDIA (nom. hint.). 



Conulinus, von Martens, Naclir. Dents. Malak. Ges. xxvii, 189o, 

 p. 180 (section of Bnliminus, for B. Uganda, hildehrandti, and 

 metula, no definition), not Conuliua, Bronn, 183o ; ibid., Bescli. 

 Weiclith. Deutsch-Ost-Afiikas, 1897, p. (54 (as section of Bidi- 

 minus, type B. contdus, Pfeitferj. 



Type, BaUmiis conulus, Pfeiffer. 



Range. East Africa. India (one species). 



Kounded conical, with comparatively small last whorl, weak 

 sculpture ; generally brown, often somewhat shining ; pei-istome 

 with outer and lower margins straight ; columellar margin reflexed, 

 frequently rather oblique in relation to the axis, without fold. 



Anatomy unknown. 



The name Comdina, proposed by Bronn in 1835 for a genus of 

 Poiyzoa, being easily confused with Comdiaus, I feel compelled to 

 change the latter and I have associated with the genus the first 

 name of that able malacologist, the late Professor Edouard von 

 Martens, for so many years in charge of the Mollusca section of 

 the Berlin Museum. To this genus I refer the only known 

 species from India, which does not assimilate with any known 

 Indian group, but closely approximates, conchologically, to the 

 African forms. At the outset there is nothing improbable about 

 this distribution of the genus in view of the fact that India aud 

 East Afx'ica share, besides, such species as Cerastus ahyssinicus, 

 Pupoides coenojnctus, and Zooteeus insidaris. 



247. Edoiiardia orhus, Blanford. 



Bulimus urhis, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxx, 1861, p. 301, pi. l,fio-. 14 ; 



Pfeiffer, Men. Ilelic. Viv. vi, 1808, p. loO; Hanley & Theobald, 



Conch. Ind. 1870, pi. 20, fig. l._ 

 Buliminus (Bhachis) orbiis, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 1-30; 



Kobelt, Conch.-Cab., Fam. Biiliniinidae, llJOO, p. 667, pi. 102, 



fi-. 7. 

 BuUmina (Hapalns) orba. Pfeiffer & Clessin, Xoniencl. Ilelic. Viv. 



1881, p. 299. 



Original description: — "Testa subperforata, oblongo-turi'ita, 

 cornea, tenuis, oblique striatula ; spira conica, apice ohtusiuscula, 

 sutura impressa. Anfr. 7 convexi, ultimus g longitudinis 

 snba^quans. Apertura obliqua, rotundato-ovalis ; peristoma 

 simplex, i*ectum, marginibus convergentibus, dextro arcuato, ad 

 anfr. penultimum valde antice porrecto, columellari breviter 

 reflexo, perforationem suhtegente. 



" Long. 10, diam. 5 mm. Ap. 3| alta, 2;^ lata." {Blanford.) 



Hah. India : Cullygoody, near Trichinopoly {Blanford) ; Poona 

 and Ahmednuii-gar {Blanford, Fairhanl-). 



"We are not acquainted with any Indian type of Bulimus \o 

 which the shell can be compared. Its horny texture, elevated. 



