the South- African Species and Varieties of Pupa. 73 



efc profundius sito). Perist. expansum, marginibus callo junctis, 

 albidulum ad basin et columellam, dilatatum, patulum. 

 "Long. 2i, diam. Ig, long, apert. ^, lat. ^ mm. 



*' Disappointment Key, Ovampoland (Daraara). 



" Cette petite es|,^ce appavtient au m^me groupe que les 

 P. rupicola, Say, pellucida, Pfr., tripunctum, Morelet, &c." 

 (C. F. Ancey.) 



The journal in which this species was described not being 

 very accessible, we copy the particulars above. No figure 

 has been given, nor do we know where the type is located, 

 but some points of affinity to P. ovampoensis appear to exist. 



5. Pupa dysorata, M. & P. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



Pupa dysorata, Molvill & Ponsonby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. eer. 6, 

 vol. xi. (1893) p. 20, pi. iii. fig. 4 ; emend, vol. xii. (1893) p. Ill ; 

 Sturany (dysorota), Siidafrik. Moll. (1898) p. 71. 



Shell very small, oblong, smoothish, minutely obliquely 

 striate, apex obtuse; whorls 5^, swollen, ventricose; body- 

 whorl short (in type), almost straight ; aperture squarely ovate, 

 lip white, slightly retlexed, columellar tooth (in the type 

 specimen) obsolete. 



Alt. 1-43, lat. 0-90 mm. (Mr. Burnup's figure). 



Hab. Griqualand East. 



Var. intradeiifata, Burnup, nov. (PI. I. figs. 5, 6.) 



Shell minute, rimate, subcylindrical, elliptic, thin, trans- 

 lucent, shining, very pale brown ; spire turbinate, with greater 

 width at the fourth whorl ; sutures impressed, apex very 

 obtuse ; whorls 5^, very convex, closely transversely striate, 

 excepting the first 1|, which are smooth, the last compressed 

 round the umbilical region ; aperture nearly erect, rounded, 

 nearly J the height of the shell. Peristome slightly 

 thickened and reflexed, more so at the collumellar margin, 

 scarcely paler than the rest of the shell, with labrum sligjitly 

 straightened about the middle. Columella arcuate, the only 

 tooth being cons])icuous, white, rounded, and remote ; it is 

 situated inside, about midway between the last suture and 

 the base, and about half a turn from the labium. 



Alt. 1-47, lat. 0-79 mm. (maj.). 

 „ 1-40, „ 0-74 „ (min.). 



J Jab. Pretoria (Farquhar 6f Punsonby). 



"A pretty little shell, one of the smallest of the South- 

 African group, and of a paler colour than usual. As com- 

 pared \\\\.\\ perplcca, Burnup, sp. n., whioh is its nearest allv. 



