340 GBANOPUPA. 



Var. subulata (Bivona). Shell shortly rimate, cylindric- 

 ovate, very finely rib-striate, silky, corneous; spire gradually 

 tapering, the apex rather acute; 6-7 convex whorls, the last 

 narrower ; aperture somewhat rounded, 8-f olded : 1 parietal, 

 2 tooth-like columellars, about 5 unequal palatals; peristome 

 simple, slightly expanded, the margins approaching. Length 

 4, diam. 1%, apert. V/ x 1 mm. (Pfr.). Sicily: near Palermo 

 on the Oreto river, and near Cefalu, Benoit. 



Pupa subulata BIVONA, Monogr. Moll. Palermo, 1840, p. 11. 

 PHILIPPI, Zeitsch. f. Malak., 1844, p. 105. KUESTER, Syst. 

 Conch. Cab., p. 94, pi. 13, f. 5, 6. PFR., Monogr., ii, p. 343. 

 BENOIT, Nuovo Catalogo Conch, t. e fl. Sicilia, 1881, p. 94. 



Philippi notes that this species is very like P. granum, but 

 not so elongate and easy to distinguish by the larger number 

 of palatal folds [5]. In one example there is an indication 

 of a tubercle at the insertion of the outer lip. 



Var. poulseni West. Cylindric, with conic and very obtuse 

 apex; whorls 7, strongly convex, with, very deep suture, the 

 last whorl not so wide as the penult, elongate-convex behind, 

 slowly and highly ascending above. Aperture oval-rounded, 

 with 7 lamellas and plicae : 1 parietal lamella and a diminutive 

 little angular tubercle ; 2 deeply placed columellars, 4 short 

 palatals. Columellar margin straightened, the outer margin 

 strongly arched above. Length 4, diam. iy 2 mm. Sicily, on 

 the Simito river near Catania, Dr. Poulsen ( [Pupa subulata] 

 var. poulseni Westerlund, Fauna, iii, 1887, p. 120). 



Var. minor Bgt. Smaller, 3% x 2 mm., with shorter, more 

 acuminate spire of slightly more convex whorls; found here 

 and there with the typical form in Algeria (Pupa granum var. 

 B. minor Bourguignat, Malac. de 1'Algerie, ii, 1864, p. 86). 



Var. bulimiformis 'Lowe' Mouss. Smaller, 4-4% nim. 

 long, 11/^-1% diam., thinner, subpellucid, pale corneous, 

 scarcely rib-striate. Canary Is., between Maspalomas and 

 Juan Grande, Grand Canary ; Sta. Maria Betencouria, Fuerte- 

 ventura ; below Haria, Lanzarote ; under stones in arid places, 

 collected by Wollaston (Mousson). 



