280 ENTDJ3. 



Genus EDOUARDIA (nom. mut.). 



Conulinus, von Martens, Nachr. Deuts. Malak. Ges. xxvii, 1895, 

 p. 180 (section of Buliminus, for B. uyandce, kildebrandti, and 

 metula, no definition), not Conulina, Bronn, 1835; ibid., Besch. 

 Weichth. Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas, 1897, p. 64 (as section of Buli- 

 j type B. comilus, Pfeiffer). 



TYPE, Bulimus conulus, Pfeiffer. 



Range. East Africa. India (one species). 



.Rounded conical, with comparatively small last whorl, weak 

 sculpture ; generally brown, often somew r hat shining ; peristome 

 with outer and lower margins straight ; columellar margin reflexed, 

 frequently rather oblique in relation to the axis, without fold. 



Anatomy unknown. 



The name Conulina, proposed by Bronn in 1835 for a genus of 

 Polyzoa, being easily confused with Conulinus, I feel compelled to 

 change the latter and I have associated with the genus the first 

 name of that able malacologist, the late Professor Edouard von 

 Martens, for so many years in charge of the Mollusca section of 

 the Berlin Museum. To this genus I refer the only known 

 species from India, which does not assimilate with any known 

 Indian group, but closely approximates, conchologically, to the 

 African forms. At the outset there is nothing improbable about 

 this distribution of the genus in view of the fact that India and 

 East Africa share, besides, such species as Cerastus abyssinicus, 

 Pupoides coenopictus, and Zootecus insularis. 



247. Edouardia orfous, Blanford. 



Bulimus orlus, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxx, 1861, p. 361, pi. l,fig. 14 ; 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 150 ; Hanley & Theobald, 



Conch. Ind. 1870, pi. 20, fig. 1. 

 Buliminus (Rhachis) orbits, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 130; 



Kobelt, Conch.-Cab., Fam. Bulimiuidae, 1900, p. 667, pi. 102, 



n>. 7. 

 Bulimina (Hapalus) orba, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 



1881, p. 299. 



Original description : " Testa subperforata, oblongo-turrita, 

 cornea, tenuis, oblique striatula ; spira conica, apice obtusiuscula, 

 sutura impressa. Anfr. 7 convexi, ultimus ^ longitudinis 

 subsequans. Apertura obliqua, rotundato - ovalis ; peristoma 

 simplex, rectum, marginibus convergentibus, dextro arcuato, ad 

 anfr. penultimum valde antice porrecto, columellari breviter 

 reflexo, perforationem subtegente. 



" Long. 10, diam. 5 mm. Ap. 3| alta, 2| lata." (Blanford.) 



Hob. India : Cullygoody, near Trichinopoly (Blanford) ; Poona 

 and Ahmednuggar (Blanford, Fairbank). 



" We are not acquainted with any Indian type of Bulimus to 

 which the shell can be compared. Its horny texture, elevated, 



