PUPILLA. 287 



culis, ultimo tertiam partem testae sequante, vix ascendente ; 

 apertara ovata, tridentata, peris tomate expanse, acuto, marginibus 

 conniventibus, columellari dilatato, albido, plica parietal i 1, 

 columellari 1, profundiusculis, dente palatali 1, depresso, obtuso. 



" Long. 4, diain. 1 1 mill." (Benson.) 



Hal. Ceylon : Cape Pedro (Layard) ; Baticalva (Preston) ; 

 Jaffna (Linter). India : Erode (Beddome). 



" In old posts and on Palmyra trees (Borassus flabelliformis)." 



The present species resembles coenopicta in shape and contour, 

 but can be readily distinguished by the more acute apex, the 

 slightly inflexed outer margin, and especially by the presence of 

 the teeth in the aperture. In the Beddome collection I found a 

 considerable number intermixed with Pupoides ccenopicta, collected 

 at Erode. The British Museum contains four specimens from 

 Cape Pedro, which are probably a part of the original lot, as they 

 are accompanied by a label in the late Edgar Layard's hand- 

 writing ; one of these measures 4-5 mm. in length. There are, 

 besides, six shells presented by Mr. H. B. Preston, who collected 

 them at Baticalva. I have also seen five specimens in the late 

 Miss Linter's collection, now in the Royal Albert Memorial 

 Museum, Exeter, which, with other shells in the same collection, 

 were kindly forwarded to me by the curator, Mr. E. E. Rowley. 

 These measure 4-25 x 2 mm., and are labelled " Jaffna." 



256. Pupilla filosa, Theobald $ Stoliczka. 



Pupa Jilosa, Theobald & Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, 1872. p 333 



pi. 11, fig. 8; Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1876, pi. 160. 



tig. 5; Sowerby, Conch. Icon, xx, 1876, Pupa. pi. 7, fiff. 59 



Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. viii, 1877, p. 401. 

 Pupa ( Vertigo) Jilosa, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 196. 

 Pupa ( Vestigo (Alaea)) Jilosa, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic 



Viv. 1881, p. 359. 



Original description : " P. testa ovato-cylindracea, cornea, 

 pellucida, apice obtusiuscula, rimate umbilicata ; anfractibus 

 4^ convexiusculis, sutura simplici junctis, transversim striis 

 cuticularibus, obliquis, filiformibus ornatis ; ultimo spira breviore, 

 basi vix angustato, convexiusculo ; apertura subquadrangulari' 

 recta, intus dentibus quinque instructa, labro undique paulo 

 expansiusculo, atque iucrassato, infra suturain subangulato, ad 

 latus dentibus duobus parvis profunde sitis instructo ; labio 

 tenuissimo, prope medium dentibus pliciformibus duobus 

 approximatis, antiore multo minore, praBdito ; columella uni- 

 dentata. 



Long. 2, diam. max. 1mm.; apert. cum perist. O^ 

 antice 0-55, postice 0-75 mm. lata." (Theobald $ Stoliczka.) 



Hob. Burma: Arakan {Theobald). 



" A well marked species, both by its peculiarly subcylindrical 

 shape aud by the denticulations of 'the apertural margins ; it is 

 not uncommon on the Arakan coast." 



