PUPILLA, 287 



culis, ultimo tertiam partem testae sequante, vix aseeudente ; 

 apertura ovata, tricleiitata, |ieristomate expanse, acuto, marginibus 

 conniveiitibus, columellari dilatato, albido, plica parietali 1, 

 columellari 1, profuiidiusculis, dente palatali 1, depi-esso, obtuso. 



"Long. 4, diam. 1| mill." {Benson.) 



Hah. Ceylon : Cape Pedro (Lcii/ard) ; Baticalva {Preston) ; 

 JafEna {Linter). India : Erode {Becldome). 



" In old posts and on Palmyra trees {Borassn^ flahelliformis).'^ 



The present species resembles ccenopicta in shape and contour, 

 but can be readily distinguished by the more acute apex, the 

 slightly inflexed outer margin, and especially by the presence of 

 the teeth in the aperture. In the Beddome collection I found a 

 considerable number intermixed with Pupoides cosnopicta, collected 

 at Erode. Th.e British Museum contains four specimens from 

 Cape Pedro, which are probably a part of the original lot, as they 

 are accompanied by a label in the late Edgar Layard's hand- 

 writing ; one of these measures 4-5 mm. in length. There are, 

 besides, six shells presented by Mr. H. B. Preston, who collected 

 them at Baticalva. I have also seen five specimens in the late 

 Miss Linter's collection, now in the Eoyal Albert Memorial 

 Museum, Exeter, which, with other shells in the same collection, 

 were kiiidly forw arded to me by the curator, Mr. F. R. Rowley. 

 These measure 4-25 x 2 mm., and are labelled " Jaffna.'' 



256. Pupilla filosa, Theobald 4" Stolkzka. 



Pupa jilom, Theobuld & Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, 187i>, p. 33.3, 

 pi. 11, tig. 8; Hauley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, pi. 160, 

 tig. 5; Sowerby, Conch. Icon, xx, 1876, Piqxi, pi. 7, tig. 59 ; 

 Pi'eiffer, Mon. Ilelic. Viv. viii, 1877, p. 401. 



Pupa {Verti(/u)fUos(i, Xevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 196. 



Pupa ( Vestiyo {Alaea)) Jilosa, PfeifFer & Clessin, XoniencL Ilelic. 

 Yiv. 1881, p. 359. 



Orif/inal description : — " P. testa o\'ato-cylindracea, cornea, 

 pellucida, apice obtusiuscula, rimate umbilicata; anfractibus 

 4^k convexiusculis, sutura simplici junctis, transversini striis 

 cuticularibus, obliquis, filiformibus oruatis ; ultimo spira breviore, 

 hasi vix angustato, convexiusculo ; apertura subquadrangulari, 

 recta, intus deutibus quinque instructa, labro undique paulo 

 expansiusculo, atque incrassato, infra suturam subangulato, ad 

 latus dentibus duohus parvis profunde sitis instructo : labio 

 tenuissinio, prope medium dentibus pliciformibus duohus 

 approximatis, antiore multo minore, prsedito ; coliuuella uni- 

 dentata. 



" Long. 2, diam. max. 1 mm. ; apert. cum perist. 0-75 longa. 

 antice 0-55, postice 0*75 mm. lata." {Theobald Sf Stoliczl-a.) 



Hob. Burma: Arakan [^Theobald). 



" A well marked species, both by its peculiarly subcylindrical 

 shape and by the denticulations of the apertural margins ; it is 

 not uncommon on the Arakan coast." 



