﻿On 
  South- 
  African 
  Species 
  and 
  Varieties 
  of 
  Pupa. 
  401 
  

  

  LT. 
  — 
  A 
  Revision 
  of 
  " 
  A 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  Species 
  and 
  Varieties 
  

   p/"Pupa, 
  Draparnaud 
  (Jaminia, 
  Risso), 
  occurring 
  in 
  South 
  

   Africa" 
  by 
  James 
  Cosmo 
  Melvill, 
  M.A.,F.L.S., 
  and 
  John 
  

   Henry 
  Ponsonby, 
  F.Z.S* 
  By 
  Henry 
  C. 
  Burnup. 
  

  

  [Plate 
  X.] 
  

  

  As 
  there 
  are 
  no 
  greater 
  authorities 
  on 
  the 
  South-African 
  

   molluscan 
  fauna 
  than 
  the 
  authors 
  of 
  the 
  paper 
  under 
  review, 
  

   it 
  is 
  only 
  after 
  long 
  hesitation 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  ventured 
  on 
  my 
  

   present 
  task. 
  

  

  The 
  Survey 
  having 
  been 
  largely 
  based 
  upon 
  notes 
  of 
  mine 
  

   comprised 
  in 
  a 
  lengthy 
  correspondence, 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  

   passages 
  therein 
  which 
  appear 
  to 
  require 
  correction 
  or 
  further 
  

   elucidation 
  having 
  been 
  written 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  the 
  authors 
  

   having 
  misunderstood 
  certain 
  parts 
  of 
  those 
  notes, 
  I 
  feel 
  

   justified 
  in 
  here 
  offering 
  opinions 
  in 
  opposition 
  to 
  the 
  published 
  

   views 
  of 
  these 
  eminent 
  writers. 
  

  

  The 
  meaning 
  of 
  many 
  sentences 
  in 
  their 
  paper 
  was 
  

   distorted 
  or 
  rendered 
  obscure 
  through 
  an 
  unfortunate 
  succes- 
  

   sion 
  of 
  printer's 
  errors, 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  emended 
  in 
  

   the 
  " 
  Errata 
  " 
  to 
  the 
  volume. 
  In 
  some 
  few 
  instances 
  opinions 
  

   were 
  expressed, 
  as 
  being 
  mine, 
  which, 
  in 
  fact, 
  were 
  not 
  mine, 
  

   though 
  they 
  were 
  probably 
  arrived 
  at 
  through 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   my 
  initial 
  work. 
  

  

  Thus, 
  the 
  consignment 
  of 
  so 
  many 
  species 
  to 
  the 
  synonymy 
  

   of 
  P. 
  fontana, 
  Krs., 
  was 
  not 
  prompted 
  by 
  me, 
  as 
  would 
  

   appear 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  case 
  from 
  the 
  text. 
  Neither 
  do 
  I 
  concur 
  in 
  

   the 
  view 
  that 
  P. 
  iniradentata, 
  Burnup, 
  is 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  

   P. 
  dysorata, 
  M. 
  & 
  P. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  printer's 
  errors 
  the 
  most 
  unfortunate 
  is 
  the 
  

   rendering 
  of 
  the 
  word 
  labrum 
  (outer 
  lip) 
  into 
  labium 
  (inner 
  

   lip) 
  in 
  nearly 
  every 
  instance 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  MS. 
  ; 
  

   so 
  completely 
  altering 
  the 
  meaning. 
  

  

  This 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  other 
  misrenderings 
  have 
  necessitated 
  the 
  

   publication 
  of 
  amended 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  affected, 
  in 
  

   the 
  following 
  pages. 
  

  

  Since 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  paper 
  under 
  discussion 
  the 
  

   kindness 
  of 
  friends 
  and 
  correspondents, 
  especially 
  Messrs. 
  

   Ponsonby, 
  Farcjuhar, 
  and 
  Tomlin, 
  Dr. 
  Sturany, 
  and 
  Major 
  

   Connolly, 
  has 
  enabled 
  me 
  to 
  study 
  certain 
  forms, 
  specimens 
  

   of 
  which 
  were 
  unobtainable 
  before, 
  to 
  describe 
  two 
  new 
  

   varieties, 
  add 
  a 
  few 
  notes 
  on 
  matters 
  not 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  Melvill 
  

   and 
  Ponsonby's 
  paper, 
  and 
  offer 
  some 
  new 
  figures. 
  

  

  * 
  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  ser. 
  8, 
  vol. 
  i. 
  (1908) 
  pp. 
  70-86, 
  pis. 
  i. 
  & 
  ii. 
  

  

  