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and roundedb^ cariiiate at the periphery, the first two poHshed, 

 shining, sculptured with fine, raised, spiral striae, the remainder 

 of a roughish texture, marked with irregular, fine, oblique, trans- 

 verse striae ; suture impressed ; 

 base of shell somewhat convex, 

 sculptured as on the lower 

 whorls ; umbilicus deep, mode- 

 rately wide, occupying rather 

 more than one-fourth of the 

 total diameter of the shell ; 

 columella margin reflexed, 

 vertically descending in a 

 curve; labrum simple; aper- 

 ture ovate. 



Alt. 8*5 (nearly), diam. maj. 

 12. diam. min ri mm. 



Figs, i, m. 

 „ lb.— 



-Plectotropis aitsteiii, sp. n., 

 X 2. 

 do., sculpture, X 4. 



Aperture: alt. 5, diam. 5-25 mm. 



Hab. — Upper Rotung. 



Named in honour of my friend Lieut.- Colonel H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen who, by his untiring labours, has so greatly enriched our 

 knowledge of the Indian Molluscan fauna. 



Family CLAUvSILIIDAE. 

 Clausilia (Phacdusa) insignis (Gld.). 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1844, P- HO ! ibid., Boston Joum, Nat. 

 Hist., IV, 1844, p. 458, pi. xxiv, fig. 8. 



Kobo at an altitude of 400 ft... in rotten wood (S. W. Kemp). 



Clausilia (Phacdusa) annandaici, sp. n. 



Shell cylindrically subulate, solid, yellowish-white; whorls 12, 



the first three submammillary, flat- 

 tish, sculptured with closely set trans- 

 verse costulae which become slightly 

 oblique on the later whorls; suture 

 rather lightly impressed ; labrum con- 

 tinuous, white, outwardly reflexed ; 

 aperture obliquely ovate, bearing an 

 erect, oblique entering lamella above 

 and broad lamella entering in an up- 

 ward direction on the columella 

 margin. 



Alt. 19, diam. maj. 375 mm. 



Aperture: alt. 3*25, diam. 3 mm. 



Hab. — Upper Rotung, at an alti- 

 tude of 2000 ft., under stems of plan- 

 tain trees (S. W. Kemp). 



Fig. 2. — Clausilia ( Phaediisa) an- 

 )iandalei, sp. n., X 2. 

 ,, 2a. — do., aperture, X 4. 

 ,, 2b. — do., sculpture, X 4. 



