VA.GINTILUS, 



489 



479. Vaginulus proximiis, Tapparone Canefri. 



Vaqinula jJi'o.twia, Tappiiroiie Canefri, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, 



ser. 2, vii, 1880, p. 338, pi. 7, figs. 8, 9 (animal). 

 Veronicella proxima, Cockerell, The Concliologi.st, ii, 1S93, p. 193. 



OrUjiiial description : — " Y. coi'iJore convexiusculo, iiuguste 

 oblougo, antice posticeque attenuato. Pallium superne iiiinu- 

 tissime et creberrime graiiulato-rugosiusculuin, I'usculuui, liuea 

 pallida postice evidentiore in medio notatum et utriuque usque 

 ad marginem maculis parvis liueolisque uigrescentibus reticu- 

 latum ; iut'ra pallidum, uuicolor. Pes pallidas, valde augustiis, 

 tertiam totus latitudinis partem uon aequans, antice subdilatatus, 

 postice iu maculam fusco-plumbeam desiuens, undique lineis 

 tenuibus, crebris, regularibus transverse exaratus. Orificiuni 

 genitale femmineum, infra, in parte pallii dextera, 2 mill, a pede, 

 parum infra medium totius longitudinis erumpens." {Tapparone 

 Canefri.) 



Length 40 mill. ; breadth 12 mill. 



Hah. Burma : Bliamo (Fea). 



This species is stated to \m\e great affinity with V. binnanica, 

 Theobald, but to differ in the following characters : — (1) It is 



Fig. 158. — V(ti/innlus pr(j.ii,in'.:<. #. 

 (Copied IVoni Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova.) 



more contracted in proportion to its breadth ; (2) it is less 

 depressed and generally darker in colour; (8) the female genital 



