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Mr. Forbes states that this is the Pupa obtusa 

 described by Dr. Fleming ; for he has " a specimen 

 which belonged to Captain Laskey, so labelled by 

 himself." Mr. Jeffreys has referred it, as a synonym, 

 to Pupa alpestris. 



76. 3. VERTIGO pygmaa. Pygmy Whorl Shell. 

 Shell egg-shaped, rather ventricose, bald, 

 shining, reddish brown; whorls four or five; 

 mouth orbicular lunate, with five teeth, one of 

 which is superior and central between the lips 

 of the peristome; the peristome acute, mar- 

 gined externally, (t 7. f. 83.) 



Vertigo vulgaris. Leach, Syn. Moll. 93. Pupa pygmaca. 

 Drop. Tab. Moll. 57., Hist. p. 60. t. 3. f. 30, 31.; Forbes and 

 Hanley, B. Moll. iv. 106. t. 130. f. 4, 5. Vertigo pygmaea. 

 Ferus. Tab. Moll. 64.; Turton, Man. ed. 1. f. 83.; Alder, 

 Mag. Zool. and Bot. ii. 112.; Moq. Tand. M. F. ii. 405. 

 t. 28. f. 3742. t. 29. f. 13. Helix isthmia cylindrica. 

 Gray, Med. Repos. 1821, 239. Turbo sexdentatus jun. 

 Montag. T. B. 337. Alaea vulgaris. Jeffreys, Linn. Trans. 

 xvi. 359. Vertigo quinquedentata, and V. quadridentata. 

 Stvder, Schw. Conch. Pupa quinquedentata, and P. pygmaea. 

 Hartm. N. Alpina, i. 219. Alsea pygmaea. Beck t 2nd. 85. 

 Stomodonta pygmaea. Mermett, Moll. Pyr. 55. 



On dry barren hills, under stones. 



Animal blackish grey; tentacles very short; 

 labial lobes very long ; jaw slender, with a very 

 slight central prominence. 



Shell a line long, dark brown, semitransparent ; 

 spire composed of five rounded and nearly smooth 

 volutions ; aperture somewhat triangular, with usu- 

 ally five teeth, two on each lip, and a central one 

 on the upper part; peristome thin, whitish when 

 the shell is perfect, slightly reflected and forming an 



