CLAUSILIA. 335 



296. Clausilia stoliczkana, Sykes. 



Clausilia (Oospira) vespa, Blanford & Stoliczka (non Gould), 

 J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, pp. 205 & 209, pi. 9, figs. 15, 15 a. 



Clausilia vespa, Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. viii, 1877, p. 468. 



Clausilia (Oospira) stoliczkana, Sykes, The Conchologist, ii, 1893, 

 p. 166. 



Original description : " Cl. testa ovato-cylindricea, ad apicem 

 obtusa, albida, medio subinflata, ultimo anfractu sensim attenuata, 

 baud rimata, f usco-castanea ; anfractibus sex, convexiusculis, 

 sutura simplicijunctis, transversim oblique et confertissime strio- 

 latis ; apertura subovata, postiee rotundate subangulata, antice 

 late sub-effusa, intus violaceo-rufa, peritremate modice expanse, 

 interne oblique fere recto, libero ; lamellae sub-parallelaB, fuscsD, 

 ad marginem attingentes ; plicae palatales 8-9, suprema (princi- 

 palis) longa, alterae breviores et inter se valde inaequales. 



"Alt. 25 millim., lat. 7 millim. ; apert. alt. 6| uiillim., lat. 

 5 millim." (Stoliczka.) 



Hob. Burma : Tavoy. 



The above description of what Blanford and Stoliczka regarded 

 as Gould's Clausilia vespa, is copied by Mr. Sykes, who considered 

 that neither the description nor the figures represented Gould's 

 species. He observes " The specimen figured by Mr. Stoliczka is, 

 I believe, one which has been since received by the British 

 Museum from Mr. Theobald. There are two species in the British 

 Museum under the name of vespa, Gould ; one which I regard as 

 really that species from the Hungerford collection, and the other 

 from Mr. Theobald, which I regard as the species and specimen 

 described and figured by Mr. Stoliczka. "What the shell is which 

 is figured by Dr. Blandford [Blanford] as vespa is, the absence of 

 description makes it hard to say ; Dr. Blandford himself says it is 

 hard to separate from philippiana , and it is probably only an 

 elongated specimen of that species." 



He states that Gould's description is very brief, which he 

 then quotes, and continues " The description will not fit Mr. 

 Stoliczka's shell, as in this latter the colour is not ' intense rufa,' 

 the apex is blunt not ' anjr. apicalibus cito descrescentibus,' i. e., 

 resembles the end of a cylinder rather than the point of a cone, 

 no whorl can be said to be ' corpulentus,' the suture is not ' vice 

 marginata,' but simple, the aperture is not * ovata ' but subovate, 

 the lip is not ' late refleocus ' or ' rufus.' 



11 On the other hand, so far as it goes, Gould's description 

 does fit the Hungerford shell, which is not very blunt in the 

 apex like the others of the Oospira section, which is a dusky red, 

 like pTiilippiana, and has a very thick and expanded dark lip. 



" I therefore consider Mr. Stoliczka's shell as not vespa ; it 

 is as far as I know, an undescribed species, and I adopt his 

 description of it and call it Stoliczkana" 



An examination of the shell in the Theobald collection, upon 

 which Mr. Sykes has based his new species, has convinced me that 



