240 PUPINA. 



PUNCTATED. (Punctatus, spotted or dotted.) For example, see 

 Conus Nussatella. Fig. 460. 



PUNCTICULIS. Sw. A sub-genus of " Coronaxis," Sw. (Conus) 

 described in Swainson's Malacology, page 311. 



PUNCTURELLA. Lowe. Cemoria, Leach. 



PUPA. Auct. Fam. Colimacea, Lam. ; Limacinea, Bl. — Descr. 

 Cylindrical, generally ribbed ; spire long, obtuse, composed of 

 numerous slowly increasing whorls ; aperture sub-quadrate, 

 rounded anteriorly, entire; outer lip thickened ; columella plaited. 

 — Obs. This genus is composed of land shells very variable in 

 form, differing from Bulinus in the numerous slowly increasing 

 whorls of the spire, and in the plicae on the columella, and from 

 Clausilia in the want of a clausium. Britain, Southern Europe, 

 East and West Indies, Mexico, &c. P. Uva. Fig. 291. 



PUPELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Clausilia. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. 

 p. 334. 



PUPILLA. Leach. A sub-genus of Pupa, P. marginata, Auct. 

 (Gray's Turton, p. 196.) 



PUPINA. Vignard. Moulinsia, Grateloup. Fam. Colimacea, 

 Lam. — Descr. Pupiform, sub-cylindrical ; last whorl less than the 

 preceding ; surface brilliantly polished ; suture of the spire ena- 

 melled ; aperture circular ; peritreme thickened ; a notch at the 

 base of the inner lip ; operculum horny, spiral. — Obs. The species 

 upon which this genus was originally founded, and described in 

 the " Annaldes Sciences Naturelles," tome 18, p. 439, (December 

 1829,) is a small pupiform shell, having nothing to distinguish it 

 but the enamelled suture and the notch in the aperture ; characters 

 quite insufficient in themselves for the purpose of generic distinc- 

 tion ; at the same time sufficient to lead M. De Ferussac to the 

 suspicion of its having an operculum. The next species, described 

 by Grateloup under the name of Moulinsia Nunezii, (Ann. Soc. 

 Linn. Burd, Nov. 1840), presents more remarkable characters, 

 having the spire turned backwards and the penultimate whorl dis- 

 proportionately large. Seven additional species have been lately 

 brought to this country from the Philippine Islands by Mr. Cum- 

 ing. They will be described by the author in the Zoological 



