22 CvECILIOIDES OF ITALY, SICILY, MALTA. 



arcuate, strongly truncate, reaching nearly to the base; outer 

 margin slightly arching forward; margins joined by a thin 

 callus. Length 4.5, diam. 1.25mm. (Bgt). 



Algeria: Vicinity of Algiers in the debris of the Frais-Vallon 

 at the Bab-el-Oued gate, and along the Harrach. Tunis, debris 

 of the Medjerda near Ghardimaou. 



Catilianella L, BGT., Malacologie de 1'Algerie ii, 1864, p. 112, 

 pi. 8, f. 10-12; Prodr. Malac. Tunisie, p. 128. 



Species of Italy, Sicily and Malta. 

 13. C. JANI (deBetta). 



Shell conic-ovate with the upper half acutely conic; apex 

 very minute, with rounded summit, whorls 6, scarcely convex, 

 regularly increasing, the last long, convex, very rapidly con- 

 tracting below, more than double the length of the penultimate, 

 half the total length of the shell. Suture strongly margined. 

 Aperture narrow, long piriform, very narrow above, narrowed 

 at the base, with strongly shortly arcuate basal margin. Outer 

 lip strongly arching forward in the middle. Coluniella curved, 

 somewhat oblique, strongly excised above, not reaching the 

 base. Length 6 to 6.5, diam. 2 to 2 mm., aperture 2.5 mm. 

 long. ( Westerlund ) . 



Northern Italy; southern Tirol; Dalmatia; Greece at Hy- 

 mettos; Malta; Corfu; Sarus river at Adana, in southeastern 

 Asia Minor. 



Achatina jani de BETTA et MARTINATI, Catal. Moll. Prov. 

 Venete, 1855, p. 59 DE BETTA, Esame Critico a tre molluschi 

 del genere Glandina, p. 23, pi. 1, f. 4-6. (Venezia, 1864).- 

 Ferussacia jani PFEIFFER, Monogr. iv, 622; vi, 252; viii, 307. 

 Oionella ( Gacil. ) jani WESTERLUND, Fauna iii, p. 178. Glandina 

 veneta Charpentier in coll.; Achatina veneta Charp., KUESTER, 

 Neunter Bericht. naturforsch. Ges. Bam berg, 1870, p. 93. 

 Oionella jani HESSE, Jahrb. D. M. Ges. ix, 1882, p. 331 (Hy- 

 mettos, Greece). Cacilianella ( Aciculina ) jani BOETTGER, 

 Nachrbl. D. Mai. Ges. vol. 37, 1905, p. Ill (distribution). 



The identity of this species, and its synonymy, have been the 

 subjects of considerable variance. Unfortunately I have not 

 access to de Betta's " Esame Critico" in which he figures the 



