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conical spire, and rouiuletl luoutli, witli the upper niargiu of Ihe 

 tliin peristome running to a considerable distance forward along 

 the penultimate wliorl, form a very peculiar combination of 

 characters." (IF. T. cj- U. F. Blanford.) 



Three specimens in the Cuming collection liave 7j whorls, one 

 measuring 13-5x6 mm.: they :ire- dark greyish corneous, and 

 finely obliquely striated. Two shells in the Theobald collection, 

 without locality, have 6| whorls and measure 9 mm. in length, 

 while three others from Ahmednuggar, in the same collection, are 

 pale corneous and measure lo*5x(J mm. The British Museum 

 possesses, besides, two specimens from Poona, reeeived in 1868 

 from A. AVest ; these are also pale corneous. 



Family PUPILLID.E. 



Genus PUPILLA, Tarton. 



Fupilla (Leach), in Turton, Man. Land and FresUw. Shells, 1831, 

 p. 99 ; Eeck, Index Moll. 1838, p. 83 (as snbgenns of Pupa) ; 

 Pfeifler, Malak. Jjliitt. ii, 1856, p. 176 (as section of Pupa)-, von 

 Martens, l^ie Heliceen, ed. 2, 18(i0, p. :?90 (as subgenus) ; 

 Locard, Prod. Malac. Fran^aise, 1882,]). 173; ibid., Coq. terr. de 

 France, 1894, p. 327; Ball, Xautihis, xvii, 1904, p. 115; 

 Cockerell, op. cit. xviii, 1905, p. 104; Pilsbry, toni. cit. pp. 105 

 & 116; Dall. tom. cit. p. 114 ; Ivennard & Woodward. List Brit. 

 Nou-Marine'MoU. 1914, p. 2. 



Pupa, Draparnand, 1801, and subserpient authors (not Pupa, 

 Humphrey, 1797, Bolten, 1798, Lamarck, 1801) ; Lehmann, Leb. 

 Schn. Musch. Steltins, 1873, p. 144, pi. 14, fig. 50 (anatomy 

 P. musconan). 



Janmiiu, V>. V>. Woodward. .Tourn. Conch, x, 1903, pp. 354,360 

 (not Jaminia, Risso, 1826). 



Type, Turbo viuscornm. Linne. 



Range. Europe, Asia, Africa. 



Shell small, shortly cylindrico-ovate, frequently rather solid ; 

 spire convex, apex obtuse ; whorls compact, the last not or 

 scarcely wider than the penultimate. xlperture semi-ovate, 

 usually ^\ith one or more denticles and occasionally w ith spiral 

 folds. Umbilicus oblique, narrow. 



The name Pupa was used almost universally for this genus until, 

 in 1903, Mr. B. B. Woodward pointed out that it was nor available 

 for this group, when he substituted Jaminia for it. J)r. Dall, 

 Prof. Cockerell, and Prof. Pilsbry subsequently shed additional 

 light upon the subject, establishing the fact that Jannnia 

 could not be used in lieu of Pupa either, but that PupUla. first pub- 

 lished by Turton in 1831, had to be adopted, and this course 

 was followed by M. Louis Germain in Moll, de la France et 

 des regions voisines, ii, 1913, p. 184, and by Kennard and 



