Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 96. (Budapest 2004)

Verdcourt, B.: New and little known species of terrestrial Mollusca from East Africa and Congo (Kinshasa)

Cecilioides tribulationis (PRESTON, 1911) (Fig. 4) Subulina tribulationis PRESTON, 1911 in Revue Zoologique Africaine 1: 220, t. 11 fig. 2; type locality: Kenya: Naivasha BM 1911.10.12. 114-115 (? syntypes). Distribution - Kenya, Tanzania. Material examined - Tanzania, Meru Crater, S side, above Usa River, at observation tower no. 17., 28.IU.1979, leg. EŐRY & SlPOS HNHM 93879/1). Remarks -1 am not certain of this identification since the type material at the BM is virtually destroyed. The specimen agrees well with PRESTON'

s figure but his dimension, height 0.3 mm, is clearly an error (? for 3). The present specimen is 4 mm long. Edentulina parensis sp. n. (Fig. 5) Type material - Holotype: Tanzania, Pare District, Pare Mts., Minja Forest Reserve, near Vuchama, Ngifi Village, Mwanga District, 12.IV. 1990, 1850 m, mesic montane evergreen forest on summit. 12.IV. 1990, leg. PÓCS (HNHM 93859). Diagnosis - Related to Edentulina ovoidea (BRUGUIÈRE, 1789) (including Edentulina affinis C. R. BOETTGER, 1913) but with a much slimmer contour and differently coloured much thinner shell. It is possibly related to some material collected by R. POLHILL and B. VERDCOURT on the Vuria Peak at 2175 m in the Teita Hills, Kenya (in National Museum, Nairobi but not seen for 40 years). Edentulina usambarensis BEQUAERT et CLENCH, 1936 described from Lutindi in the W. Usambaras is much smaller with a more conical differently coloured shell. Description - Shell bulimiform with elevated spire and very rounded apex with thin medium brown periostracum covering white shell; sides of spire distinctly convex; umbilicus reduced to an almost closed slit. Whorls 6 Vi, slightly convex; suture not deeply impressed. Apical whorl smooth and rest of shell with erratic sculpture, mostly faint but when evident, particularly on the whorl above the body whorl, consisting of oblique ribs ± 6 per mm and under high magnifications the ribs are faintly crenellate; body whorl very slightly compressed and with an obscure oblique bulge which extends across the parietal area near the outer lip (but this could be an individual aberration). Aperture % - oblong-elliptic, the outer lip somewhat oblique; base smoothly rounded; columella with oblique ridge; peristome white and glossy, narrowly thickened and reflected. Dimensions: height 37 mm, breadth 18 mm; aperture 15 mm long, 11.5 mm wide. Distribution - known only from a single shell from the N. Pare Mts. at 1850 m. Etymology - Derived from the locality Pare, an area SE of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Anatomy - Animal unknown.