348 NESOPUP^ OP INDIA AND CEYLON. 



corneous, the later ones rufous. Spire convex, apex obtuse r 

 suture impressed. Whorls 5, slightly convex, the last flattened 

 and scrobiculate behind the peristome, shortly ascending, 

 slightly compressed and subangulated around the extremely 

 narrow perforation of the umbilicus. Aperture oblique, 

 broadly obovate, furnished with seven denticles, 2 compressed, 

 elongate, on the parietal wall, 2 very minute and deeply 

 seated, on the columella, 3 also very minute and deeply 

 seated, on the palatal wall. Peristome rufous, slightly thick- 

 ened and reflexed ; outer margin slightly inflexed, basal mar- 

 gin rounded, columellar margin obliquely ascending and 

 slightly dilated above. 



"Long. 2, diam. 1 mm." (Gude). 



Ceylon. Type in the British Museum. 



Pupilla cinghalensis GUDE, Fauna of British India, MolL T 

 ii, 1914, p. 286, fig. 108. 



"This new species is based on a specimen from Ceylon, 

 without precise indication of habitat, acquired by me some 

 years ago at a sale. It differs from P. barrackporensis, its 

 nearest ally, in having seven instead of four denticles in the 

 aperture, and in having the peristome fulvous instead of 

 white" (Gude). 



Section Insulipupa Pils. 

 46. NESOPUPA BARRACKPORENSIS (Gude). PL 31, figs. 3, 4. 



This species was placed in Gastrocopta with a mark of 

 doubt in Vol. xxiv, p. 135. Specimens sent from the Indian 

 Museum, labeled by Nevill "Pupa (Vertigo) brevicostis = V. 

 indica Pfeiffer," now at hand (pi. 31, figs. 3, 4), described 

 below. They are apparently the Barrackpore examples 

 noticed by Nevill in his Hand List Moll. Ind. Mus., i, p. 197, 

 and which Mr. Gude surmised were barrackporensis (=> indica 

 Pfr. not Benson). If so, the low angular lamella was over- 

 looked by all who have described the species. Mr. Sowerby's 

 two wretched figures (Conch. Ind. and Conch. Icon.) appear 

 to show it indistinctly. In renaming the shell Mr. Gude 

 added nothing to the definition or illustration, though he had 

 the types and other specimens under examination, and must 



