368 ACHATINID^E. 



No. 6, genus Pupa, Button, J. A. S. B. iii, 1834, p. 85 ; No. 6, 



Pupa (mihi) cylindrical ? ibid., torn. cit. p. 93. 

 Bulimus (Cylindrus) insularis, Albers, Die Heliceen, 1850, p. 180. 

 Bulimus insularis, Pfeiffer, Mon. Helic. Viv. iii, 1853, p. 403; ibid., 



Conch.-Cab., Bulimus, 1854, p. 125, pi. 36, figs. 26-28 ; Hanley 



& Theobald, Conch. Ind. 1870, pi. 22, fig. 10 ; Bourguignat, Ann. 



Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 6, xv, 1883, art. 2, p. 65. 

 Chondrus (Mastus) insularis, Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll, ii, 1855, 



p. 165. 

 Buliminus (Cylindrus) insularis, Jickeli, Nova Acta K. Leop.-Carol. 



Akad. Wiss. xxxvii, no. 1, 1874, p. 108, pi. 5, fig. 4 ; Kobelt, 



Conchyl. Buch, ii, 1878, p. 273, pi. 84, fig. 21. 

 Pupa (Cylindrus) insularis, Nevill, J. A. S. B. xlvi, 1877, p. 22 ; 



ibid., Hand List, i, 1878, p. 195 ; ibid., in Anderson, Zool. Res. 



Exp. W. YunnaD, i, 1879, p. 882. 



Cylindrus insularis, Theobald, J. A. S. B. xlvii, 1878, p. 146. 

 Bulimina (Mastus) insular is, Pfeiff'er, Nomencl. Helic. Viv. 18 SI, 



p. 293. 

 Rumina insularis, Bourguignat, Moll.Choa, 1885, p. 22 ; Jousseaume, 



Bull. Soc. Malac. France, vi, 1889, p. 359. 

 Buliminus (Zootecus^ insularis, Westerlund, Fauna Palaarct. Binnen- 



conchyl. iii, 1887, p. 75 ; Katal. Palaarct. Binnenconch. 1890, 



p. 92. 

 Buliminus insularis, Pollonera, Bull. Soc. Malac. Ital. xiii, 1888, 



p. 70 ; von Martens, Nachr. Dents. Malak. Ges. 1889, p. 151 ; 



Smith, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, i, 1894, p. 142. 

 Chilogymnus insularis, Jousseaume, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii, 



1894, p. 289. 

 Stenoyyra insularis, von Martens, Arch. Naturg. Ixi, 1895, 1, p. 103, 



pi. 8, figs. 6, 6 (jaw and radula). 

 Buliminus (Mastus) insularis, Pollonera, Boll. Mus. Zool. Torino, 



xiii, 1898, no. 313, p. 6 ; Peile, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 



xi, 1908, p. 131. 

 Zootecus insularis, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, xviii, 1906, p. 106, 



pi. 26, fig. 21. 



Original description: "Pupa insularis, subcylindrica, apice 

 attenuata, subacuta, nitida, albido-cornea, subtilissime transverse 

 striata, striis apicem versus angustioribus, pellucida, apertura 

 semiovata, margine paululum reflexo, leviter calloso ; anfractibus 

 7 ad 8, tribus primis diametro subaequalibus. 



"Max. sp. long. 5^ lin., lat. If, 8 spirae anfr. Alia sp. D\ long., 

 1| lata, anfr. 7." (Ehrenberg.) 



Hab. Caraeran Island. Red Sea (type locality, Ehrenberg), 

 India : Delhi, Bundelkund (Hanley fy Theobald) ; Kudapah, Tinali 

 (Stoliczlca) ; Patna (Mainwaring) ; Northern and Central India 

 (Theobald, Huttori) ; Saharunpore ( Wood-Mason) ; Kutch and Sind 

 (StoUczka, Blanford) Pooua (Blanford, FairbanJc) ; Salt Range 

 and Lake Sambhur (Theobald, Wynne) ; Burwani Hills (Blanford) ; 

 Rajputana (Hackett) ; Kashmir (Theobald) ; Bombay Island (Peile) 

 Trichinopoli (Nevill, Blanford). Burma : Pagan (Anderson, Nevill). 

 Ceylon (Nevill, Blanford, Simon). 



Zootecus insularis and its varieties hav r e a very wide range out- 

 side the Indian region, extending, according to Pilsbry, from the 



