AFRICAN NESOPUPvE. 357 



a 2 . No angular lamella; parietal, columellar and two palatal 

 teeth present; length 1.75 mm. Island S. Thome. 



Costigo nobrei, p. 368. 

 a 3 . Aperture without teeth (Genus Negulus; Vol. XXVI). 



Section Afripupa P. & C., n. sect. 



Minute Nesopupa with teeth of the typical section except 

 that the columellar lamella does not turn down at its inner 

 end ; sculpture of close rib-strias without cuticular edges. 

 Type N. griqualandica (M. & P.). 



54. NESOPUPA GRIQUALANDICA (Melv. & Pons.). PL 34, figs. 

 1-4. 



Shell very minute, rimate, thin, rotund-cylindric, brown; 

 whorls 5, rather swollen, compressed at the sutures, every- 

 where closely, longitudinally, finely striate, the last whorl de- 

 pressed-sulcate in the middle, dorsally towards the lip. Aper- 

 ture ovate-rotund; peristome thickened, sinuated on the 

 labial [labralj margin, plicate: two parietal folds, very 

 prominent and recurved, a third marginal on the columella, 

 dentiform. Length 1, width 0.75 mm. (Melv. and Pons.). 



British South Africa: Cape of Good Hope: Griqualand 

 East (type loc., Sykes) ; Cradock (Farquhar) ; Port Eliza- 

 beth (Ponsonby coll.). Natal: Pietermaritzburg, Dargle, 

 Tongaat, Edendale (Burnup). Zululand: Dukuduku (Top- 

 pin). Transvaal: Pretoria District (Parquhar) ; Heidelberg 

 (Miss Livingston) ; Buiskop (Connolly). Rhodesia: Victoria 

 Falls (Connolly). 



Pupa griqualandica MELVILL and PONSONBY, Ann. Mag. N. 

 H. (6), xi, Jan. 1893, p. 3, fig. 9; (8), i, Jan. 1908, p. 76, pi. 

 1, f. 8, 10. BURNUP, Ann. Mag. N. H. (8), vii, 1911, p. 405. 

 Jaminia griqualandica (Melv. & Pons.), CONNOLLY, Ann. 

 South African Museum, xi, pt. iii, 1912, p. 182. 



This species appears to differ from N. bisulcata (Jickeli) 

 by the more deeply immersed lower palatal fold, the presence 

 of a basal fold and the deeper external furrow of the last 

 whorl over the upper palatal fold. It is also smaller than 

 Jickeli records. 



