ENDODONTID.1S. 



from Moulmein, and I think it better to place it near this than to 

 create a new genus for it, which I at first intended ; I think it 

 best, however, to wait until someone else can examine the animal." 

 (Godwin- Austen.) 



It will be seen from the foregoing that Lt.-Col. Godwin- Austen 



V 

 Fig. II. Pupisoma constrictum. (From P. Z. S.) 



had some doubts as to the generic position of the species. Since, 

 however, in contour as well as sculpture it accords well with the 

 other members of the group, it may be retained here until an 

 examination of the soft parts shall prove other relationship. In 

 his synopsis of the Indian forms, in Land and Freshw. Moll. 

 India, ii, 1910, p. 300, Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen does not include 

 the present species. 



51. Pupisoma orcula, Benson. 



Helix orcula, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, vi, 1850, p. 251 ; Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon, vii, 1853, pi. 174, fig. 1176 ; Pfeiffer, Conch. (Jab., 

 Helix, iii, 1854, p. 357, pi. 136, fig. 18 ; Hanley & Theobald, 

 Conch Ind. 1874, pi. 87, figs. 1, 4. 



Pupa (Pupisoma} orcula, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 192. 



Hyalinia (Conulus) orcula, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 

 1881, p. 73. 



Zonites (Hyalinia (Conulus)) orcula, Tryon, Man. Conch, ser. 2, iii, 

 1887, p, 177, pi. 53, fig. 67. 



Pyramidula (Pupisoma) orcula, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, ix, 1894, 

 p. 52. 



Pupisoma orcula, Godwin-Austen, Land & Freshw. Moll. India, ii, 

 1910, p. 301 ; Hirase, Conch. Mag. iii, 1909, p. 26, pi. 9, figs. 30, 

 31 ; Burnup, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, x, 1912, p. 45 ; Conolly, 

 Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xi, 1912, p. 159. 



Original description : " Testa vix perforata, conico-globosa, 

 cornea, translucente, scabra, oblique irregulariter costulato- 

 striatissima ; apice obtuso ; anfractibus 3| convexis, ultimo 

 rotundato, sutura profunda ; apertura obliqua rotundata spiram 

 vix sequante ; peristomate tenui acuto ; margine columellari 

 reflexo, perforationem semitegente. 



" Diam. 2, axis 2 mill." (Benson.) 



Hob. India : between Jounpore and Benares, Dinapore (Bacon), 

 and whole route from Barrackpore, in Bengal, to borders of Sikkim 



