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72. VERTIGO OVOIDEA (Westerlund). 



Shell ovate, ventricose, widest in the middle, reddish-yellow, 

 finely striate, rather glossy. Whorls 5, convex, the upper 

 ones rapidly increasing in width, the last equal in height to 

 the penult in front, behind strongly sloping, far lower and less 

 wide than the penult. Suture very oblique above, nearly 

 horizontal below. Aperture semiovate, with three small tuber- 

 cular teeth, one each on the parietal wall, columella and deep 

 in the palate. Parietal wall scarcely oblique ; peristome sim- 

 ple, acute, the columellar margin somewhat reflected above, 

 margins delicately joined. Length 2, diam. li/4 mm. 

 (WesterL). 



Sweden: Tenhult, Prov. Smaland (E. Hemberg). 



Pupa ovoidea WESTERLUND, Expose Critique, in Nova Acta 

 Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. (3) viii, 1871, p. 96; Fauna iii, p. 131. 

 PFR., Monogr. viii, 393. 



73. VERTIGO SIEVERSI (Bttg.). PI. 17, figs. 11, 12. 



Nearest related to V. siibstriata Jeffr., but ovate-turrited, 

 not shortly ovate, the sculpture slighter. Shell small, ovate- 

 turrite, somewhat glossy, rather silky, corneous-olivaceous, the 

 apex obtuse. Whorls 5, convex, very delicately but distinctly 

 striate, the last scarcely one-third the total length, encircled 

 anteriorly with an annular broad but not strong callus, either 

 fulvous or whitish, externally not or slightly impressed. 

 Aperture truncate-ovate, 6-toothed: two pliciform palatals, 

 two subequal columellars, and two parietals, the inner one 

 larger. Peristome a little expanded, pale, somewhat thick- 

 ened, sublabiate, the margins connected by a thin callus. 

 Outer margin a little projecting and slightly impressed in the 

 middle. Length 1% to 2%, diam. 1 mm. (Bttg.). 



Caucasia: Tabizhuri (Dr. Sievers) ; debris of the Psekup 

 (Rosen). 



Pupa (Vertigo) pygnuza Drap. var. nitidula MOUSSON, 

 Journ. de Conch. 1876, p. 143. Pupa (Vertigo) sieversi 

 BOETTGER, Jahrb. d. m. Ges. vi, 1879, p. 407, pi. 10, f. 6; 

 with var. punctulum, pi. 10, f. 7; Jahrb. vii, 1880, p. 141, 

 with var. punctum [sic] and var. subalpestris. Vertigo 



