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Bulimus (Rhachis) punctatus, Pfeiffer, Malak. Blatt. ii, 185G, 



p. 161 ; Tryon, Struct. Syst. Conch, iii, 1884, p. 49, pi. 99, fig. 62. 

 Buliminus (Rhachis) punctatus, von Martens, Die Heliceen, ed. 2, 



1860, p. 231 ; ibid., Malak. Blatt. vi. I860, p. 212 ; ibid., in von 



der Decken, Reiseii in Ost-Afrika, iii, Abth. 1, 1869, p. 59; 



Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 130; Kobelt, Illustr. Conchyl. 



Buch, ii. 1878, p. 273, pi. 84, fig. 14. 

 Buliminus punctatus, von Martens, Nachr. Dents, Malak. Ges. 



1869, p. 153. 



Bulimus punctatus, Nevill, Enum. Helic. Ceylon, 1871, p. 3. 

 Rhachis punctatus, Schacko, in Mobius, Beitr. Meeresfauna Ins. 



Mauritius u. J?eychellen, 1880, p. 340 (radula) ; Smith, Fauna 



and Geogr. Maldive and Laccadive Arch, i, part 2, 1902, p. 143. 

 Bulimina (Rachis) punctata, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic. 



Viv. 1881, p. 285. 

 Rachisellus punctatus, Bourguignat, Moll. Afr. Equat. 1889, p. 69 ; 



Thiele, Wiss. Ergebn. Dents. Zentr.-Afr. Exp. iii, Zool. 1911, 



p. 201. 

 Rachis punctatus, Jousseaume, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii, 1894, 



p. 297. 

 Rhachis punctata, Kobelt & Mollendorff, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. 



1903, p. 38. 

 Bidiminus (Rachis) punctatus, Peile, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 



Soc. xi, 1908, p. 131. 



Bulimus solutus, Benson MS. quoted by Pfeiffer and Deshayes. 

 Bulimus solatus, Benson MS. quoted by Reeve. 



Original description-. " Oval- con isch, Gewinde massig lang; 

 6 flaclie Wiudungen ; wenig gliinzend, glatt, \\eiss, t'ein brauu 

 punctirt, au der Mitte der letzten Winclung ein schmales braunes 

 Band, Wirbelspitze schwarz, glanzend ; durchbohrt ; Miindung 

 lang oval ; Mundsaum scharf ; Spindel mit eineni Blattchen 

 belegt." (Anton.} 



Length 10, diaui. 5 mm. Apert. 4*5 mm. long, 3 broad. 



Hob. India : Bundelkhuncl (Benson, Jerdon, Mus. Cum.) ; 

 Oolooberiah, near Calcutta and Benares (Mainwaring) ; Madras 

 (Henderson)-, Poona, Ahmednnggar (Blanford); Trichinopoly, 

 Nullamullays (Blanford) ; Travancore (Beddome) ; Orissa (Ball) ; 

 Bombay Island (Peile, West\ Ceylon (Layard, Nevill). Laccadive 

 Archipelago (Stanley Gardiner Exp.}. Africa : Zanzibar ( Vesco, 

 von der Declcen, firauns) ; Mozambique : Tette and Querimba 

 Island (Peters) ; Benguella (Ansorge). 



No habitat was given originally by Anton, Benson being the 

 first to identify specimens as B. punctatus from Bundelkhuncl and 

 Ceylon as recorded by Pfeiffer and Keeve. Many other Indian 

 localities were indicated subsequently by Nevill, while in 1860 

 von Martens and Morelet recorded specimens from Zanzibar, the 

 former adding Mozambique in 1869. He mentioned that shells 

 from Zanzibar were contained in Albers' collection, but they were 

 labelled B. Ferussaci, Dunker, adding that the true West African 

 fernssaci, indeed, scarcely differs from punctatus, except in the 

 white coloration and pale apex. He draws attention, however, to 

 the fact that Pfeiffer attributes a corneous apex to punctatus, 



