844 GRANOPUPA. 



4. GRANOPUPA RHODIA (Roth). PL 48, fig. 15. 



The shell is subperforate and rimate, slender, turrited, 

 rather closely rib-striate, cinnamon-brown. Spire attenuate, 

 with slightly concave outlines in the upper part. First whorl 

 large, obtuse, most minutely granulose. Whorls strongly con- 

 vex, the penult rather swollen, last whorl rounded at base and 

 slightly impressed over the upper palatal plica. Aperture 

 oblong, brownish within with white teeth. There is no an- 

 gular lamella ; parietal lamella short and rather high, the colu- 

 mellar lamella equal to it; subcolumellar much smaller and 

 shorter. Two palatal plicae, the upper rather long, and weakly 

 reaching the peristome, the lower smaller, shorter. Peristome 

 thin, white, the outer margin scarcely expanded, columellar 

 margin dilated ; parietal callous thin and transparent. Length 

 4.5, diam. including peristome 1.8 mm. ; 6% whorls. 



Dalmatia; Montenegro; Kephalonia; Euboea; Rhodes; 

 Adana in Asia Minor; Beirut, Syria; southern Crimea at 

 Jalta and Sadah. 



Pupa rkodia ROTH, Moll. Species quas in Iter. per Orient. 

 Schuberti, Erde et Roth : Dissert. Inaug., 1839, p. 19, pi. 2, f . 

 4. KUESTER, Conchyl. Cab., p. 31, pi. 4, f. 11. PFR., Monogr., 

 ii, 350 ; iii, 548 ; iv, 674 ; vi, 318. ROSSMAESSLER, Iconogr., iii, 

 1859, p. 108, pi. 85, f. 940. MOUSSON, Coq. terr. et fluv. rec. 

 par Roth, 1861, p. 50 (around Jerusalem). WESTERLUND, 

 Malak. Bl., xxii, p. 123; Synopsis, 1897, p. 105, with var. 

 taurica Kessler. CAZIOT, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxv, 1910, 

 p. 150 (synonymy). Pupa acuta Kutschig MS., and Pupa 

 acutula Parreyss MS., according to ROSSMAESSLER, Iconogr., 

 iii, 17-18 Heft, 1859, p. 108. Pupa meledana Stentz MS., 

 quoted without description as a synonym of Torquttla acculta 

 Parr., by A. et J. B. VILLA, Disp. Syst. Conch., etc., 1841, 

 p. 24. 



A strongly sculptured species, with the spire very slender 

 above, and having no angular lamella. 



The undescribed Pupa meledana Stentz would be a synonym 

 of occulta according to the record, since it was first mentioned 

 in that connection; yet as the name is obviously from the 

 island Meleda near Ragusa (far from the habitat of occulta 



