NO. 5 INTERMEDIATE HOSTS OF ASIATIC BLOOD FT.UKE BARTSCH 9 



11iree specimens of this species, the type and two paratypes, are 

 before me. They belong to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, bearing the catalogue number 95757, and were collected by 

 Y. Hirase in 1908 at Makuragisan. Izumo, Japan. They measure: 



No. of Height Diameter 



whorls in mm in mm 



5.0" 4.0 3.0 (type) 



5-3 5-2 3-2 



4.5 ■ 3-6 2.4 



" The type, whose shell, operculum, and radula T have figured. 



The small size and strong axial sculpture easily distinguish this 

 species from the other IJlanfordias. 



BLANFORDIA JAPONICA (A. Adams) 



Plate I, figs. II, 14 (type) ; plate 2, fig. i ; plate 3, fig. 5; plate 6. fig. 2 



i8()i. Tomichia j'aponica A. Adams. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 8, p. 308. 

 1863. Blaiijordia jafonica A. Ar).\MS, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 12, p. 424, 



Pl. 7. fig. 12. 

 1876. Blanfordia japoiiica Pfeiffer, Mon. Pneumon. Viv., pt. 4, p. 22. 

 1878. Blanfordia japoiiica Nevill, Hand List Moll. Ind. Mus., pt. i, p. 254. 



1900. Blanfordia japoiiica Mollendorff, Nachrichtsbl. Deutsch. Malakoz. Ges.. 



vol. 32, pp. 153-154- 



1901. Blanfordia bciisfliii minor Pii.sbry, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 8, 



p. 6. 



1902. Blanfordia japonica Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 54, 



pp. 26-27. 



1903. Blanfordia japonica Pii.sbry, Nautilus, vol. 16, p. 114. 



1906. Blanfordia japonica Pii.sbky, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 58, 



p. 751- 

 191 5. Blanfordia japonica Pilsbry, Nautilus, vol. 29, p. 2, figs, i, la. 

 1924. Blanfordia pilshryana Ann.andale, Amer. Journ. Hyg., Mon. Ser. no. 3, 



p. 290. 

 1924. Blanfordia japonica Annandale, Amer. Journ. Hgy.. Mon. Ser. no. 3, 



pp. 286, 288-291, text fig. 6c. 

 1929. Blanfordia japonica Thiele, Handb. Syst. VVeicht., pt. i, p. 150. 

 1934. Blanfordia japonica Pilsbry, Journ. Parasit., vol. 20, pp. 282-283. 

 1934. Tomichia japonica Bequaert, Journ. Parasit., vol. 20, p. 282. 

 1934. Blanfordia pilshryana Pilsbry, Journ. Parasit., vol. 20, p. 283. 



Shell of medium size, elongate-ovate, rather stout, horn-colored, 

 with the outer edge of the peristome bounded by a narrow zone of 

 dark chocolate brown. Interior of the aperture pale yellowish. The 

 early whorls of all our specimens, except one, are decollated and the 

 decollation is closed with a plug. In this specimen, which is in lot 

 U.S.N.M. no. 346038, 2.2 whorls are present, but they are so 



