GASTROCOPTA, SOUTH AMERICA, EASTERN ASIA. 103 



(Position uncertain.) 



37. Pupa curta Anton. Shortly cylindric ; 4y 2 whorls, with 

 deep suture; finely striate; epidermis brown; narrowly um- 

 bilicate; aperture somewhat compressed (as in pagodula), 

 with three lamelliform denticles. Breadth %, height 1 line 

 (Anton). 



Chili (Anton). 



Pupa curta ANTON, Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche 

 sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden, 

 1839, p. 47, no. 1731. PFR., Monographia, ii, p. 355. Alcea 

 annaaensis BECK, Index Moll., 1837, p. 85 (I. Annaa; no de- 

 scription). Not Pupa curta Potiez et Michaud, 1838. 



Nothing has been added to Anton's description of this 

 species, which may be a Gastrocopta. In a letter to Pfeiffer 

 he stated that it was identical with the above-mentioned spe- 

 cies of Beck, of which only the name and locality were re- 

 corded. The name P. curta had been used in 1838, but it is 

 not worth while to re-name a poorly defined species, not 

 localized, and impossible to recognize. 



III. SPECIES OP EASTERN ASIA, FROM JAPAN TO FRENCH 

 INDO-CHINA. 



This geographic division includes also the Bonin and Loo- 

 choo Islands. It is characterized by the prevalence of Gas- 

 trocoptas of the series of G. armigerella, no other group being 

 known as yet. It is to be expected that China will eventually 

 add many species. 



Subgenus SINALBINULA Pilsbry. 



See p. 11. Most Sinalbinulas have the mouth parts rather 

 more coarsely granular than in other gastrocopts. The ex- 

 terior also is usually minutely granular, a character also 

 common to many species throughout the genus. 



Sinalbinula is widely distributed in eastern and southern 

 Asia, south to Australia, in Polynesia, Micronesia and Hawaii. 

 Westward there are single species in the Trans-Caucasus 

 region (no. 64) and Abyssinia (no. 65), these being survivors 



