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berg) ; Pretoria District (custodita, kercea, omicronaria, &c., 

 very plentiful) ; Johannesburg (McBean, Johnson) ; Potchef- 

 stroom, Heidelberg (Miss Livingston) ; Buiskop (Connolly). 

 Natal: Karkloof (McBean); Edendale; Tongaat (Burnup). 

 Cape of Good Hope: Prieska (Ldghtfoot) ; Cradock (endo- 

 plax) (Farquhar) ; Port Elizabeth (ampkodon, charybdica, 

 frustttlum, Crawford, Penther) ; East London (Miss Bow- 

 ker) ; Victoria East: Pirie Forest (Godfrey). Griqualand 

 West: Blaauwbosch Poort, Hay District (Day). Damara- 

 land : Gobabis, sub-fossil ( Hermann ) . 



Abyssinia: Asmara, Mekerka on the banks of the Toquor 

 and on the Habab Hts., Enjelal, 7200-7995 ft., type and var. 

 globulosa together (Jickeli). Senafe, Adigrat, Agula and 

 Meshek, common at Tigre (Blanford). 



Pupa fontana KRAUSS, Die Siidafrikanischen Mollusken, 

 1848, p. 80, pi. 5, f. 6. KUESTER, Conchyl. Cab., p. 122, pi. 16, 

 f. 9-12. PFR., Monogr., ii, p. 355. BLANFORD, Obs. Geol. and 

 Zool. Abyssinia, 1870, p. 477. JICKELI, Molluskenfauna N.-O. 

 Afrika's, 1874, p. 120, pi. 5, f. 11, and var. globulosa, p. 121, 

 pi. 5, f. 11'. MELVILL & PONSONBY, Ann. Mag. N. H., i, 1908, 

 p. 74 (synonymy). BURNUP, A. M. N. H., vii, 1911, p. 404. 

 Jaminia fontana (Krauss), CONNOLLY, Reference List, Ann. 

 S. Afr. Mus., xi, pt. 3, Oct., 1912, p. 180. Pupilla raffrayi 

 BOURGUIGNAT, Hist. Malacologique de 1'Abyssinie, in Ann. 

 Sci. Nat., xv, 1883, pp. 71, 115. Pupilla globulosa BGT,, same 

 vol., pp. 72, 116. Pupa charybdica MELVILL & PONSONBY, 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xiv, August, 1894, p. 94, pi. 1, f. 13. 

 Pupa custodita M. & P., same vol., p. 93, pi. 1, f . 9. Pupa 

 frustillus M. & P., same vol., p. 94, pi. 1, f. 14. Pupa ker&a 

 M. & P., same vol., p. 94, pi. 1, f. 12 (kercea Connolly). Pupa 

 omicronaria M. & P., same vol., p. 93, pi. 1, f. 11. Pupa 

 amphodon M. & P., A. M. N. H. (6), xviii, Oct., 1896, p. 317, 

 pi. 16, f. 6, l.Pupa endoplax M. & P., A. M. N. H. (7), viii, 

 Oct., 1901, p. 319, pi. 2, f. 10. 



P. fontana is a small, compact, usually 4-toothed species. 

 It sometimes has an angular lamella in form of a callous pad 

 or low oblong tubercle (as in pi. 16, figs. 6, 20, 23), but more 

 often this is not perceptible. The last whorl is flattened ex- 



