. Mollusca ... Mollusks. Pig. 11.âPupisoma cotistrictiim. (From P. Z. S.) had some doubts as to the generic position of the species. Since, however, in contour as well as sculpture it accords well with the other members of the group, it may be retained here until an examination of the soft parts shall prove other relationship. In his synopsis of the Indian forms, in Land and Freshw. Moll. India, ii, 1910, p. 300, Godwin-Austen does not include the present species. 51. Pupisoma orcula, Benson. Helix orcula, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, vi, 1850, p. 261; Reeve, Conch. Icon, vii, 1853, pi
. Mollusca ... Mollusks. Pig. 11.âPupisoma cotistrictiim. (From P. Z. S.) had some doubts as to the generic position of the species. Since, however, in contour as well as sculpture it accords well with the other members of the group, it may be retained here until an examination of the soft parts shall prove other relationship. In his synopsis of the Indian forms, in Land and Freshw. Moll. India, ii, 1910, p. 300, Godwin-Austen does not include the present species. 51. Pupisoma orcula, Benson. Helix orcula, Benson, A. M. N. H. ser. 2, vi, 1850, p. 261; Reeve, Conch. Icon, vii, 1853, pi. 174, fig. 1176 ; Pfeiifer, Conch. Uab., Helix, iii, 1854, p. 357, pi. 136, fig. 18; Hanley & Theobald, Conch Ind. 1874, pi. 87, figs. 1, 4. Pupa (Pupisoma) orcula, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 192. Hyalinia {Conulus) orcula, Pfeiffer & Clessin, Nomencl. Helic Viv 1881, p. 73. Zonites {Hyalinia (Conulus)) orcula, Tryon, Man. Conch, ser 2 iii 1887, p. 177, pi. 53, fig. 67. ' ' Pyramidula (Pupisoma) orcula, Pilsbry, Man. Conch, ser. 2, ix, 1894 p. 62. Pupisoma orcula, Godwin-Austen, Land & Freshw. Moll. India ii 1910, p. 301; Hirase, Conch. Mag. iii, 1909, p. 26, pi. 9, figs.'so' 31; Burnup, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, x, 1912, p. 45 ; Conollv' Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xi, 1912, p. 169. â " Original description :â" Testa vix perforata, conico-globosa, cornea, translucente, scabra, oblique irregulariter costulato- striatissima; apice obtuso ; anfractibus 3| convexis, ultimo rotundato, sutura profunda ; apertura obliqua rotundata spiram vix sequante ; peristomate tenui acuto ; raargine columellari reflexo, perforationem semitegente. " Diam. 2, axis 2 ; (Benson.) Hah. India: between Jounpore and Benares, Dinapore {Bacon), and whole route from Barrackpore, in Bengal, to borders of Sikkim. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illu
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