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species is also known from Manbhum and Panchet Hill near 
Raniganj in Bengal. 
4. Microcyrtina cryptomphalus,* G. A. 
Blanford and Godwin-Austen, op. cit., p. 257. 
We did not take this shell, which was obtained on Parés- 
nath at an altitude of 4,480 feet. 
5. Kaliella barrakporensis (Pir.). 
Blanford and Godwin-Austen, op. cit., p. 258. 
Specimens of this widely distributed species were obtained 
on Parésnath by Stoliczka and also by myself. My specimens 
were taken on the north side at an altitude of 4,350 feet. 
K. barrakporensis, which occurs practically all over Peninsular 
India and also in Madagascar, is not uncommon in pine-woods 
round Simla at altitudes of 7,000—8o00 feet. 
Family HELICIDAEF, 
6. Glessula praelustris (Bs.). 
Hanby and Theobald, Conch. Ind., p. 9, pl. xvii, p. 6. 
Some dead and partly incinerated shells of this species were 
found among the ashes of a jungle fire under a stone on one of 
the ridges of the hill (alt. 4,000—4,500 feet) and have been identified 
for me by Col. Godwin-Austen, to whom I am indebted also 
for confirmation of the other identifications of the land shells 
here recorded. G. praelustris is also known from Orissa, 
Family CyRENIDAE. 
7. Pisidium prox. atkinsomanum, Theob. 
In a small spring situated on the north side of the hill at 
an altitude of about 4,000 feet I found numerous specimens of a 
minute Pisidium which my friend Mr. G. H. Tipper has examined. 
He informs me that they resemble specimens of P. atkinsonianum 
from Gangtok in Sikhim so closely that they should probably be 
regarded as representing a local race of that species. They differ 
considerably from P. clarkianum, Nevill, the common species of 
the plains of Bengal. 
EARTHWORMS. 
Dr. W. Michaelsen writes as regards the earthworms collected 
on Parésnath :— 
‘‘ Unfortunately none of them is quite mature. In consequence 
I can only partially determine them, hardly being able to denomi- 
nate the genus. 
