330 ABIDA. 



the upper small, lower very small ; palatal folds 4, immersed, 

 the two middle ones moderately lengthened, deep within ; the 

 first subsutural, punctiform, the fourth below, nodule-like; 

 peristome a little thickened inside, the margins separated, 

 columellar margin slightly expanded. Length 4, diam. 1 mm. 

 (West.). 



Greece: Kolokytha, in Attica (Th. Kruper). 



Pupa (Torquilla) krueperi WEST., Nachrbl. d. m. Ges., 

 1894, p. 172. Pupa kriiperi WEST., Synopsis, p. 91. 



Westerlund says that according to its shape and teeth (the 

 upper and the lower of the palatal folds are very short and 

 deeply placed), this new Grecian species boldly takes its place 

 beside the southwest European P. brauni Rm. In the Synopsis 

 Westerlund places the species between appeliusi and micheli. 



Semes of A. lapidaria. 



Species with slowly increasing whorls and strong apertural 

 armature: 2 parietal, 2 columellar and 4 palatals in known 

 species, the angular lamella small and short. 



I have not seen this species, which resembles Amphiscopus 

 by the short angular lamella. Just where it belongs in the 

 series is uncertain, but the reference to Abida does not appear 

 plausible. Some forms of Granopupa and Clwndrina have a 

 short angular lamella. 



In this connection it may be mentioned that Mr. Ancey ex- 

 pressed the opinion that several species placed by Westerlund 

 in his section Amphiscopus (of Buliminus), belong to Abida. 

 Westerlund himself appears to have been in doubt as to where 

 Amphiscopus belongs, remarking that it could also be placed 

 next to Torquilla (Fauna, iii, 1887, p. 78), but leaving it as 

 a section of Buliminus (p. 55). Pupa arabica Dohrn (Malak. 

 Bl., 1859, p. 203) has been placed by Ancey in Abida ( Journ. 

 de Conchyl., liii, 1905, p. 265), but apparently he had not 

 seen that little-known and still unfigured species. 



44. ABIDA ( ?) LAPIDARIA (Button). PL 46, fig. 10. 



Animal dusky. Shell composed of 7 cylindrical volutions, 

 exclusive of apex ; the three first whorls rapidly decreasing 



