Mr. W. H. Benson on new Asiatic species of the genus Pupa. 125 
XV.—Descriptions of four new Asiatic species of the genus Pupa 
of Draparnaud. By W. HH. Benson, Esq. 
In the ‘ Zeitschrift fiir Malakologie’ for 1846 Dr. Pfeiffer adverts 
to the paucity of known species of Pupa from other countries 
than Europe, North America, the West Indies, and the Cape of 
Good Hope. In his ‘ Monographia’ he cites only Pupa bicolor, 
Hutton, as inhabiting India as well as the Isle of Bourbon 
(P. Largilherti, Philippi), giving but a simgle Indian locality 
(Mirzapore) for it; and he quotes Pupa sulcata, Miiller, as a 
Ceylonese shell. The latter species may possibly occur in the 
station assigned to it, but it is also certainly a Mauritian shell, 
haunting the woods around Curepipe, with P. Pagoda, Fer., ac- 
cording to Sir David Barclay and Mr. Rawson. Pupa bicolor has 
a very extensive range. Its beautiful vermilion and yellow tints, 
similar to those of several Mauritian Pupe, attracted my atten- 
tion to the animal in Bundelkhund as early as 1825 ; and I sub- 
sequently took it m numerous localities*, but in no place very 
plentifully, from the foot of the Himalayas in Rohilkhund down 
to the neighbourhood of Calcutta. In 1847 I met with it at 
Point de Galle in Ceylon, and Dr. Cantor found it, though rarely, 
in Pulo Penang. It did not occur to me at the Mauritius, al- 
though inhabiting its neighbour island. 
I have now to make known four new Oriental species; one 
from China scarcely yielding the palm of size to any of the genus, 
the other three from India proper, all minute. Of these, two in- 
habit the Himalaya and one Lower Bengal. Some other species 
from India have been assigned to the genus Pupa, which, how- 
ever, fall more correctly into the cylindrical division of the genus 
Bulimus. 
1. Pupa regia, nobis. 
T. profundissime umbilicata, elongato-conica, subcylindrica, solida, 
alba, laevigata, nitidiuscula, oblique et remote, obsoleteque plicato- 
striata; spira superne sensim attenuata, apice vbtusiusculo; um- 
bilico pervio; anfractibus undecim subplanulatis, ultimo antice 
ascendente, validius plicato, ad basin compresso ; sutura lineari, 
irregulariter crenata; apertura oblique truncato- ovata, sublaterali, 
* Viz. Bhamoury, Moradabad, and Bareilly, in Rohilkhund ; Etawah and 
Futtehpore in the Do-ab of the Ganges and Jumna; at Humeerpore in 
Bundelkhund, south of the latter river; at Jounpore and Mirzapore in the 
Benares Division, north and south of the Ganges ; and at Howrah, on the 
west bank of the Hooghly river, near Calcutta. It shelters itself in the’ 
ground under loose stones, bricks, or wood, and comes forth in the rains of 
July. At Bhamoury I got it by digging at the root of a tree. It was there 
much dwarfed. The lower ranges of the Himalaya, within which it has 
never been met with, rise immediately from that spot; and attain, in the 
course of twelve miles, an elevation of 8000 feet. 
