PUPISOMA. 31 



ing is said of spiral striae, but these have been overlooked by 

 some other describers of Pupisoma. Issel's figures having 

 been copied in a former volume are not repeated here. 



10. PUPISOMA ORCULA (Benson). PL 2, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 



Shell slightly perforate, conic-globose, corneous, translucent, 

 scabrous, obliquely irregularly costulate-striate. Apex obtuse. 

 Whorls 3%, convex, the last rounded, suture deep. Aper- 

 ture oblique, rounded, scarcely as long as the spire; peri- 

 stome thin, acute, the columellar margin reflected, half cover- 

 ing the perforation. Diam. 2, axis 2 mm. (Benson) . 



Length 2.05, diam. 2 mm.; 3y 2 whorls (Kyoto, Japan). 



Length 1.8, diam. 1.75 mm.; 3% whorls (Maritzburg). 



Japan: Kyoto, Yamashiro (Hirase). 



India: Between Jounpore and Benares, on trunks of 

 mango trees (Lieut. Burkinyoung) ; Dinapur, near Patna 

 and in mango groves from Barrackpur, in Bengal, to the 

 borders of Sikkim and thence to Chuprah in Bahar (Dr. J. 

 F. Bacon). 



Java (Burnup) ; Philippines; Savu I. (near Timor) (A. 

 N. S. P.). 



South Africa: Cape of Good Hope at Port Elizabeth 

 (Crawford) and Grahamstown (Farquhar). Natal: Maritz- 

 burg, Ntimbankulu, Dargle, Edendale, Game Pass (Burnup) ; 

 Richmond (Wakefield, Cooper); Karkloof (Taynton). Pre- 

 toria, Transvaal (Connolly). Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (War- 

 ren). 



Helix orcula BENSON, Ann. Mag. N. H. (2), vi, Oct. 1850, 

 p. 251. REEVE, Conch. Icon., vii, 1853, pi. 174, f. 1176. 

 PFEIFFER, Conch. Cab., Helix, iii, 1854, p. 357, pi. 136, f. 18. 

 HANLEY & THEOBALD, Conch. Indica, 1874, pi. 87, f. 1, 4. 

 Pupisoma orcula (Bens.), GOD WIN- AUSTEN, Land and Fresh- 

 water Moll. India, ii, 1910, p. 301. HIRASE, Conchol. Maga- 

 zine, iii, 1909, p. 26, pi. 9, f. 30, 31. BURNUP, Proc. Malac. 

 Soc. Lond., x, 1912, p. 45. CONNOLLY, Ann. S. African Mus., 

 xi, 1912, p. 159, left fig. 



The oblique striae are unequal and irregularly spaced. 

 Under the microscope impressed spiral lines are seen, weak 



