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23. C. SUBSAXANA (Bourguignat). PL 3, fig. 50. 



Shell very minute, obese- fusiform, very slender, hyaline, 

 polished, whitish; apex very obtuse, whorls 4-J to 5, subplanu- 

 late, parted by a double suture, the last more than half the 

 total length. Aperture narrow, long; peristome acute, simple, 

 unexpanded; right margin somewhat dilated in the middle; 

 columella arcuate, with a callous deposit, and strongly abruptly 

 truncate, not reaching to the base; margins joined by a callus. 

 Length 2.5, diam. 1 mm. (Bgt.). 



Greece: Megara, in lacrymatories from ancient tombs (A. 

 Gaudry). 



C. mbsaxona BGT., Rev. et Mag. Zool. viii, 1856, p. 426, pi. 

 12, f. 18-20; Amen. Malac. i, 220, pi. 18, f. 18-20. Achatina 

 s. , Pfr. , Monogr. iv, 625. 



24. C. OBTUSATA (Westerlund). 



Shell with the lower half fusiform, the upper cylindric. 

 Whorls 5, the first small, depressed, the second large, strongly 

 convex, globose, wider and slightly shorter than the weakly convex 

 third whorl, which is scarcely shorter than the fourth; the last 

 whorl lengthened, narrowed below, half the total length; suture 

 slightly oblique, simple; aperture narrow; outer margin scarcely 

 produced forward; columella somewhat curved, truncate. 

 Length 3.66, diam. 1 mm. (Westerl.*). 



Caucasus: Poti. 



Cionella (Csecilianella*) obtusata WESTERL., Fauna iii, p. 181 

 (1887). 



Two specimens were found with C. liesvillei,. Even if they 

 are not full-grown, the form is distinguishable from all others 

 by its apex. 



25. C. RADDEI (Boettger). PI. 3, figs. 46, 47. 



Shell suboblong-fusiform, whitish glassy; spire turrited, the 

 apex obtuse. Whorls 5-J, here and there substriate, very little 

 convex, the penultimate nearly equal to the height of those 

 above; last whorl not distinctly more swollen than the rest, 

 more convex towards the base, three-sevenths the total length. 

 Aperture drop-shaped; columella arcuate, very obliquely, 



