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Genus Ehachis, Albers. 

 Rhachis chiradzuluensis (Smith). 

 1899. Buliminus (Rhachis) chiradzuluensis, Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 p. 586, pi. 33, fig. 40. 



Hah. — Mt. Manotsuri, Shilwane district, 4,000 feet, on a bush. 



A noteworthy new locality for this beautiful little species, which 

 was described from Nyasaland and has also been collected as far 

 north as Mombasa. The Type set are all bandless above the 

 periphery, the markings being confined to two narrow rufous bands, 

 one on or just beneath the periphery, the second about 1| mm. 

 below it. In Junod's examples these bands are double the breadth, 

 and there is a narrow third band above the periphery, midway 

 between the sutures ; in other respects the shells are perfectly 

 conspecific and easily recognizable from Smith's figure. 



As the generic name Buliminus is no longer available, and Ena, 

 which replaced it, is not applicable to the South African genera, 

 I leave this species in the remaining group in which Smith placed it ; 

 it will, however, probably be found to be quite distinct when the 

 anatomy of the various members of the Rhachis group becomes 

 better known. 



Genus Pupisoma, Stoliczka. 



Pupisoma orcula (Bs.). 

 Hah. — Luvimbi, Sibasa ; Elim ; Mt. Manotsuri, 4,000 feet. 



Genus Lauria, Gray. 

 Lauria dadion (Bs.). 

 Hah. — Mt. Manotsuri, Shilwane district, 4,000 feet, 

 A single specimen, taken alive, gives a remarkable extension to 

 the limited range of this species. In. L. dadion, as well as in its near 

 allies L. farquhari and L. tahularis (M. & P.), there is frequently a 

 slight, bluntly pointed swelling half-way up and rather deep-set 

 on the columella, showing through the shell as a white line observable 

 within the umbilicus : in Junod's sbell this swelling is more 

 prominent than in any other of twenty which I have examined from 

 Cape Town and Karkloof, and seems to be represented by a clear 

 furrow, rather than a, white line, in the umbilicus ; it will be 

 interesting to see whether this variation is constant if further 

 examples are ever collected in the same neighbourhood. 



Genus Achatina, Lamarck. 

 Achatina dimidiata. Smith. 

 1878. Achatina dimidiata, Smith, Quart. Journ. of Conch, i, p. 348. 

 1904-5. Cochlitoma dimidiata, Smith, Pilsb., Manual, xvii, p. 95, 

 pi. 32, fig. 6. 

 Hah. — Shilwane district. 



The northernmost record for this species, whose southern known 

 limit is Majuba. 



