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Toil Ieedalk, 
Tliemapupa lepidiila A. Adams and Angas 1804. 
plate I., figs. 5 and 5a. 
1864 — BuUminns {ChondriiJa) lepidula A. Adams and Angas, Proe. Zool. 
Soe. (Loud.), 1804, in 38, June 24. Shark Bay, W.A. Pig’d. Cox, 
Austr. Land Slmils, )). 69, pi. XIX., f. 14, May, 1868, from 
a painting nf the type by Angas. 
1894 — Pupa lepidula Smith, Proe, M.iiae. Sue. (LomL), 1894, p. 90, lane, 
cites ‘‘Cox, op. eit.. p. 69 (nnfigiired).'’ 
1916 — Pupoidcf^ iepidtdiis Hcdley, Journ. Roy. Soc. "West. Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 217. 
1921 — Pupoides pacijicnn Pilsbry, Man. Conch. (Tryon), Ser. 2, Vol. XXVI. 
(pt. 103), ]). 141. August 4 (part). 
This is a very distinct species judging from Cox’s figure of the type 
which is here reproduced. Pilsbry rather carelessly included it in the 
synonymy of 7'. pacificm, observing, “It came from well within the known 
range” of that 8pcci('s, whereas it was well outside. Then he figured a speci- 
men from Porrest River, near Wyndham, which was not much like Cox’s 
figure, and noting that the lip was narrower concludes, “If this proves con- 
stant they might be sejiarated as a race lepidula.” 
The original description is here added as no one has collected land-shells 
at Shark Bay in recent years: •‘Shell turrited, iniiifoiiu, iimbilicate, thin, 
glos.sy, semipellucid, corneous; whorls 5 strongly convex, longitudinally 
striate. Aperture rotund-ovate; peristome interi'upted, white, broadly re- 
flected; outer lip lu’ovided above with a small, white, tuberculiform callus. 
Length 2, rvidth 1 line. This little species differs from C. ndelaidae in being 
semipellucid, shining and of a horn colour. The whorls, moreover, are 
much more strongly conve.x.” 
In view of the fact that s])ecies have been confused ixnder the name 
pacificuet, it is somewhat amusing to record a recent conclusion. Rens-h 
(Zool. .Jahrbudi. fSyst.), Jena Bd. 63, heft I., p]). 1-130, Apl. 12, 1932), 
led astray by a desire to recognise affinities without regard to local condi- 
tions, has ])!oposed to admit one species PupodJes coenopictus Hutton, with 
an old-worhl I’ange as follows: — 
l\c. coenopiefus Hutton. India, Ceylon, Afghanistan. 
P.c. seiiegalenfiif! iMorelet. West Africa. 
P.e. conneclenn nov. Sumba. 
P.c. pacificus Pfeiffer. Australia, Islands of Torres Straits. 
The idea of introducing a. new subspecies, in an amalgam of such a 
composition, does not seem in accordance witli his own theory of widespread 
“races.” These “races” appear to he superspeeies of other malacologists. 
Themapupa anapaciflea s]). uov. 
Plate L, fig. 9. 
1874 — BuUmus pacif.eus Smith, Zool. Prehus & Terror, Moll., p. 3, pi. IV., 
f. 6. Pigeon T. X.IV. Australia (Richardson). Xot B. pacificus 
Pfeiffer, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loiuh), 1846, p. 31. 
1894 — Pupa parifica Smith, Proc. Malae. Soc. (Loud.), Vol. I., p. 96, Juno. 
Pigeon I., near IVallaby 1., lloutman’s Abrolhos, West Australia; 
Koebuck Bay and Baudin L, X.W. Australia (J. J. Walker). 
