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252. Papilla gutta, Benson. 



Pupa gutta, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 3, xiii, 1864, p. 138 ; 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. vi, 1868, p. 298; Hanley& Theobald, 



Conch. Ind. 1875, pi. 101, tig. 9; Theobald, J. A. S. B. xlvii, 



1878, p. 146. 

 Pupa (Pupilla) gutta, Pfeiffer & Olessin, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 



1881, p. 353. 



Original description : " P. testa obsolete riinata, oblongo-ovata, 

 Isevigata, tenui, pallide cornea, translucente ; spira obtuse ovata, 

 sutura impressa; ant'ractibus 4|, convexiusculis, ultimo antice vix 

 ascendeute ; apertura obliqua, edentula, angulato-rotundata ; 

 peristomatis marginibus remotis, dextro recto, acuto, columellari 

 expansiusculo. 



" Long. If, diam. 1 mill." (Benson.} 



Hob. India : Spiti Valley, Kunawur (Benson). 



" P. himalayana, Hutton, an elongate and strongly sculptured 

 shell, is the only edentate species previouslj r described from the 

 Himalayan liegion." (Benson.) 



I have not seen this species. The shell figured in Conch. Ind. 

 does not look as if mature, and the fact that Benson in his 

 diagnosis describes the right margin of the peristome as " straight, 

 acute," makes it appear that the same remark applies to the type. 

 It does not seem to have much affinity with Sphyradwm liima- 

 layanum (ante p. 41). 



253. Pupilla barrackporensis, nom. mut. 



Pupa indica, Pfeiffer, P. Z. S. 1854, p, 295 (not Pupa indica, 



Benson, 1849) ; Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. iv, 1859, p." 679 ; 



Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, pi. 160, tig. 8 ; Sowerby, 



Conch. Icon, xx, 1876, Pupa, pi. 7, fig. 63. 

 Pupa (Pupilla) indica, Pfeiffer, Malak. Blatt. ii, 1856, p. 177 , 



Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 1881, p. 355. 



Original description : " P. testa breviter rimata, cylindraceo- 

 ovata, tenui, levissime striatula, oleoso-micante, fulvo-cornea ; 

 spira apice conoideo-rotundata ; anfract. 5, su peris 3 convexis. 

 penultimo planiore, ultimo -^ longitudinis forrnante, basi compresso, 

 antice biscrobiculato ; apertura vix obliqua, oblonga, dentibus 

 4 coarctata : 1 plicaeformi parietali, 1 columellari, 2 profundus, 

 brevibus palatalibus ; perist. albido, breviter expauso. 



Long. 2, diam. 1 mill." (Pfeiffer.) 



Hob. India : Barrackpore. 



The name Papa indica, proposed by Pfeiffer in 1854, is not 

 available for the present species having already been employed by 

 Benson in 1849, and I have therefore been obliged to substitute a 

 new one. 



The Me Andrew collection at Cambridge contains several 

 specimens labelled breuicostis, but which I refer without hesitation 

 to the present species, having compared them with the type in the 

 Cuming collection. Nevill, when stating that he considered these 



