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or two, deeply immersed, may be suspected. It is 4 mm. long, 

 2 wide. Since the shell agrees with granum except as to the 

 columella, it has been placed in the synonymy of that species 

 by Pfeiffer and others. Bourguignat's figure is copied, pi. 

 46, fig. 4. 



Var. sardoa (Cantraine). In form and size it resembles P. 

 philippn and occulta. It is nearly cylindric, a little conic, 

 marked with spaced striae nearly resembling little ribs; the 

 color is corneous-brown. The whorls of the spire are quite 

 convex, as in the preceding species [frumentum] . As to the 

 aperture, it is semi-oval and furnished with five folds, of 

 which one is on the columella, three on the lip, of which the 

 lower one is the strongest, and it alone merits the term of fold, 

 the two others resembling teeth; they are shown on the out- 

 side as white marks; the fifth fold is placed on the convexity 

 of the penult whorl. They are all quite immersed within the 

 aperture. The umbilical crevice is quite open, and the peri- 

 stome is simple or slightly reflected. Alt. 2, diam. % lines ; 7 

 whorls. Sardinia (Cantraine). 



P.[upa] sardoa CANTRAINE, Malacologie Mediterraneenne 

 et Littorale, 1840 (Mem. Acad. Roy. Bruxelles), p. 142, pi. 

 13, f. 6. 



I do not know that the plate referred to by Cantraine was 

 ever published, as the copy of Malacologie Mediterraneenne 

 before me has only six plates. 



M. Margier (or at least "E. M.") writes that he was "so 

 fortunate as to find two examples which correspond remark- 

 ably well with Cantraine 's description of P. sardoa, among 

 specimens of Pupa granum from the environs of Caglieri, 

 sent by M. le Marquis de Monterosato. P. sardoa belongs in- 

 con testably to the group of P. granum Drap. It differs from 

 the latter by the shape, which resembles that of P. subulata 

 Biv. of Sicily, and by the number of palatal teeth (only 

 three) , while P. granum has four. It appears to be simply a 

 variety of Draparnaud's species, well known and widely 

 spread throughout Mediterranean lands. The P. subulata Biv. 

 should not be kept as a species, it appears to us, but as a vari- 

 ety of P. granum." (E. M. in Feuille des Jeunes Natural- 

 istes, Dec. 1902, no. 386, p. 35.) 



