VA.GINTILUS. 



489 



479. Vaginulus proximus, Tapparone Canefri. 



Vayinula proximo,, Tapparone Canefri, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, 



ser. 2, vii, 1889, p. 338, pi. 7, figs. 8, 9 (animal). 

 Veronicella proxima, Cockerell, The Conchologist, ii, 1893, p. 193. 



Original description : " V. corpora convexiusculo, anguste 

 oblongo, antice posticeque attenuato. Pallium superne minu- 

 tissime et creberrime gran ulato-rugosiuscul um, fusculuin, liuea 

 pallida postice evideritiore in medio uotatum et utrinque usque 

 ad marginem maculis parvis lineolisque nigrescentibus reticu- 

 latum ; infra pallidum, unicolor. Pes pallidas, valde angustus, 

 tertiam totus latitudinis partem non aequans, antice subdilatatus, 

 postice in maculam fusco-plumbeam desinens, undique lineis 

 teuuibus, crebris, regularibus transverse exaratus. Orificium 

 genitale femmineum, infra, in parte pallii dextera, 2 mill, a pede, 

 paruni infra medium totius longitudinis erumpens." (Tapparone 

 Canefri.} 



Length 40 mill. ; breadth 12 mill. 



Hob. Burma : Bhaino (Fed). 



This species is stated to have great affinity with V. birmanica, 

 Theobald, but to differ in the following characters : (1) It is 



Fig. 158. Vaginuhts proximus. f. 

 (Copied from Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva.) 



more contracted in proportion to its breadth ; (2) it is less 

 depressed and generally darker in colour ; (3) the female genital 



