30 (LECILIOIDES OF GREECE AND WESTERN ASIA. 



which is slightly truncate at base; the whole outer lip strongly 

 arched forward. Length 4.25, diam. 1 mm. (Westerl.) 



Malta: in flower-pots on Dr. Ed. Calleja's terrace; also a 

 house yard in Valletta. 



Cacilianella pollonerte GATTO, The Medit. Naturalist, ii, p. 

 227, Aug. 1892. Cionella (Cacilianella) pollonera Gatto in Sc., 

 WESTERL., Nachrbl. Dec. 1892, p. 196. 



"These three Caecilianellas of the group Aciculina, sent for 

 determination by the Count Caruana-Gatto, stand nearest to C. 

 petitiana" ( Westerlund). 



Species of Greece and Western Asia. 



Besides the following, C. /. boettgeri and G. jam have been 

 recorded. 



22. C. TUMULORUM Bourguignat. PI. 3, fig. 45. 



Shell minute, conic-fusiform, slender, diaphanous, polished, 

 whitish, the apex tapering, obtuse; whorls 6, flattened, parted 

 by a duplicated superficial suture, the last over one-third the 

 total length. Aperture piriform-dilated-oblong; peristome 

 acute, simple, unexpanded, the right margin arching forward; 

 columella a little twisted and arcuate, abruptly truncate and not 

 reaching the base of the aperture; margins joined by a strong 

 callus which bears an almost obsolete tooth-like callosity on the 

 convexity of the penult, whorl. Length 6 to 6.5, diam. 2 mm. 

 (Bgt.). 



Greece: Megara, in lacrymatories from ancient tombs (type 

 loc. ); Piraeus, Athens, Syra, etc. (Hesse)] Crete, Nauplia, 

 Corfu (Boettger). Asia Minor: Samsun; Adalia, in Lycia; 

 Adana, in debris of the Sarus river (Boettger). 



Cadlianella ., BGT., Rev. et Mag. de Zool., viii, 1856, p. 424, 

 pi. 12, f. 15-17; Amen. Malac., i, p. 219, pi. 18, f. 15-17. 

 PFR., Monogr., iv, 625. HESSE, Jahrb. D. M. Ges., ix, 1882, 

 331. NAEGELE, Nachrbl. D. Mai. Ges., 1902, p. 8; 1903, p. 

 176 (Adana, CiliciaB, in debris of the Sarus river). BOETTGER, 

 Nachrbl., vol. 37, 1905, p. 111. 



" Distinguished easily from liesvillei by its more pyramidal 

 shell, larger size, more truncate suture and flatter whorls" 

 (Rgt.). 



