PUPILLA. 289 



the Cuming collection in the British Museum, measuring 

 1*75 X 1*1 mm. The type cannot, unfortunately, be found, 

 Dr. Doncaster informing me that a diligent search for it has 

 proved fruitless. The species is characterized by the lamellate 

 strife and the short spire as compared with the diameter. 



The true position of this species is somewhat doubtful. Adams, 

 Pfeiffer, and Nevill placed it in Vertigo, doubtless owing to 

 Benson's observation that " the lower pair of tentacula is deficient 

 or inconspicuous, as in Vertigo." As the latter is characterized by 

 the absence of the lower pair of tentacles and Benson does not 

 definitely state that these organs are absent in the species, the 

 reference to Vertigo does not seem warranted, es])ecially since the 

 shell does not, as regards texture, shnpe, and conformation, 

 assimilate well with the other forms of that genus. Pfeiffer 

 appears to have modified his original opinion, for in the ' Nomen- 

 clator' the species was placed in the section PupilJa of the genus 

 Pupa. While its inclusion in the group of P. inuscorum is out of 

 the question, hrevicostis may be retained in the genus Papilla in 

 its wider sense, as now understood, until an investigation of its 

 anatomy shall prove the contrary. 



25S. Pupilla salemensis, Blanford. 



Ennea salemensis, Blauford, J. A. S. B. xxx, 1861, p. 359, 



Ptipa salemejisis, Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 18G8, p. 318 ; Hanley 



& Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, pi. 160, fig. 9. 

 Pupa salemnnensis. Sowerby, Conch. Icon, xx, 1876, Pupa, pi. 7, 



Pujia {Pupilla) salemensis, Pfeiffer & Clessiu, Noinenci. Helic. Viv. 

 1881, p. 3.-)4. 



Original description : — " Testa rimata, ovato-oblonga, oblique 

 striata, fulvida : spira elevata, conoidea, apice obtuso : sutura 

 impressa ; anfr. 4g ; superiores couvexiusculi, inferiores sub- 

 planulati, ultimus pone aperturam medio excavatus, i longitudinis 

 subaequans, antice arcuatim ascendens, juxta suturam et infra 

 compressus. Apertura reniformis : columella recedens, superne 

 callosa. Dentes parietales 2 compressi. Peristoma expansum, 

 labio externo flexuose excavato 1 dentato. 



"Long. 1*6, diam. maj. 1, apert. alt. 0'6 mm." (Blanford.) • 



Hah. India : Kalryen Hills {Foote). 



" This little shell belongs to a type distinct from that of Ennea 

 pirriei and the other 8. Indian species, and is more closely allied 

 to the Cuttack sp. E. seriola. Prom this it is distinguished by its 

 more conoidal form and the possession of two well-developed 

 parietal, and one palatal tooth, whereas the Cuttack shell has but 

 one minute parietal tooth. Moreover, the mouth is smaller and 

 more constricted. Two specimens were received from Mr. Poote, 

 both somewhat weathered." {Blanford.) 



