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BLANFORDIA. 
V. Blanfordia A. Adams. 
„Testa ovato-conica, epidermide olivacea obtecta, apice 
truncato; anfractibus laevibus. Apertura elliptica; peristomate 
continuo, incrassato, duplicate), interno subacuto, externo sub- 
varicoso. 
Operculum corneum, subspirale. 
Rostrum elongatum, transverse corrugatum, ad apicem 
emarginatum. Tentacula brevissima, triangularia, depressa, ad 
apicem acuta; oculi sessiles ad basin superiorem tentaculorum; 
pes magnus, sulco transverso in partes duas divisus, ad latera 
utrinque lobatus, postice lobo dorsali operculum gerente prae- 
ditus. 44 (A.) 
Blanfordia A. Adams in Ann. and Mag. nat. hist. 3d. ser. XII. (Dec. 
1863.) p. 424. 
— Cox Mon. Austr. landsh. 1868. p. 94. 
— Patel Catal. 1873. p. 16. 118: genus Aciculaceorum. 
Species : 
1. striatula (Truncatella) Menke. (Coll. 1.) Aur. 196 (Truncatella). 
Pneum. II. 9. III. 8. — Angas in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863. p. 523. — 
Cox Mon. Austr. landsh. p. 95. t. 15. f. 13. — Patel Cat. p. 118. — 
Tasmania, Australia meridionals, prope Adelaide. 
2 . B. pyrrhostoma Cox. t 
„Testa rimata, cylindrico-pyramidata, decollata, obsolete 
costulato-striata, praesertim in anfractu primo, ubi lineis sub- 
tilibus spiralibus decussata est ; albida , haud nitens ; spira 
regulariter attenuata; anfr. superst. 6, uniformiter convexius- 
culi, ultimus convexus; apertura fere elliptica, leviter obliqua, 
axi ab eo testae divergente; perist. album, in interiore aper- 
turae vivide rubrum, callosum, marginibus callo junctis, ex- 
pansum, praecipue inferne et margine columellari, fissuram 
umbilicarem minutam apertam relinquens. — Long. 0,70, lat. 
0,30; long, apert. 0,20 poll. 44 (C. angl.) 
Blanfordia pyrrhostoma Cox Monogr. Austr. landsh. p. 95. t. 15. f. 14. 14 a. 
Habitat Shark’s Bay Australiae occidentalis (Masters). 
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3. japonica A. Adams 1. c. p. 424. t. 7. f. 12. — Patel Cat. p. 118. — 
Sado Japoniae. 
4. Bensoni A. Adams 1. c. p. 424. t. 7. f. 11. — Matsumai Japoniae. 
Obs. An hue referendum Cyclostoma viridescens Pease 1861, a Carpenter 
(assentientibus Martens Bangle.') Blanfordiae, a Pease et Schmeltz Atropidi 
adscriptum? Conf. Realia ? viridescens Nr. 6. 
