230 EKED^E. 



None of the Indian species appears to have had its anatomy 

 investigated and their reference to these three subgenera is, there- 

 fore, based purely on conchological grounds. 



It is somewhat surprising to find that many continental 

 malacologists continue to use the name Buliminus for the genus 

 in spite of the fact that as far back as 1903 Mr. B. B. Woodward 

 had pointed out * that this name is preoccupied and that Ena 

 must be adopted in its stead. The only exception to this, to 

 my knowledge, appears to be Dr. J. Thiele. Kobelt in 1900 

 and Mollendorff in 1902, indeed, have already used the name Ena 

 but only in its restricted sense, i. e. for the group of montanus 

 for which in 1850 Albers proposed Merdigerus. 



Sugenus MIRUS, Albers. 



Mirus, Albers, Die Heliceen, 1850, p. 184 (as section of Bulimus) ; 

 Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, p. 165 ; Chenu, Man. Conchyl. 

 i, 1860, p. 442 (as subgenus of Chondrus) ; Mollendorff, Ann. 

 Mus. Zool. St. Petersburg, vi, 1902, p. 314 ; Kobelt & Mollendorff, 

 Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. 1903, p. 55 (as subgenus of 

 Buliminus) . 



TYPE, Bulimus cantori, Philippi. 



Range. Central Asia, India, China. 



Shell rimately perforate, subcylindrica], or convexly-cylindrical, 

 last whorl anteriorly slightly ascending; columella arcuate, 

 aperture ovate ; peristome expanded, callused within, the margins, 

 united by a more or less thick callus, with or without a denticle 

 near the upper margin. 



Anatomy unknown. 



199. Ena ceratina, Reeve. 



Bulimus ceratinus (Benson), lieeve, Conch. Icon, v, 1849, Bulimus, 



pi. 77, fig. 569 ; Pfeiffer, Mon. llelic. Viv. iii, 1853, p. 352 ; 



ibid., Conch.-Cab., Bulimus, 1853, p. 77, pi. 21, figs. 6, 7. 

 Bulimus (End) ceratinus, Pfeiffer, Malak. Blatt. ii, 1856, p. 153. 

 Bulimus ccelebs, var. ceralina, Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 



1874, pi. 80, fig. 2. 

 Buliminus (Petraeus) coelebs, var. ceratina. Nevill, Hand List, i, 



1878, p. 134. 

 Bulimina (Ena) ceratina, Pfeiffer Clessin, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 



1881, p. 289. 



Original description : " Shell acuminately oblong, thin, com- 

 pressly umbilicated, whorls six to seven in number, convex, some- 

 what obscurely irregularly striated in a grooved manner, columella 

 broadly vertically reflected, aperture rather small, nearly orbicular; 

 transparent horny." (Reeve.) 



Long. 14, diam. 7 mm. (ex icon.). 



* Journ. Conohol. x, 1903, p. 358. 



