I92I.] N. Annandale & B. Pkashad : Indian Molluscs. 127 

 Stenothyra hungerfordiana, Nevill. 



18S0. Stenotliyra liKiigcrfordiana. Nevill, Jntini. As. Snr. Beti;ral, 



XI.IX, pt. ii, pp. 159, 160. 

 1881. Stenothyra hungerfoniiana. ib., id , L, p. 156, pi. vii, fig. 9. 

 1885. Stenotliyra linugerfordiana, Ni'vill, op. cit., II, p. 44. 

 1915. Stenotliyra liiingerfordlann, Preston, up. cit., p. So. 



This interesting species was hitherto known from the original 

 specimens collected in the Andaman Islands by the late Dr. F. 

 Stoliczka and Rev. J. Warneford, but we have found another 

 young specimen in the Indian Museum, also collected in the Anda- 

 mans (precise localitv and donor not stated), which had been 

 wrongly labelled as S. minima (vSowerby). The types are pre- 

 served in the Indian Museum, but according to Nevill the species 

 was also represented in the coUeccions of Dohrn, Warneford, Theo- 

 bald, Blanford and Hungerford. 



Nevill's description of the species is excellent , and we have 

 nothing to add to it. The distinguishing characters of the species 

 are also well shown in the figure in his second paper cited above. 



Stenothyra mcnilifera, Benson. 



1856. stenotliyra iiionilifei-a, Benson, op. cit., p. 497. 

 1858. Stenotliyra monilifera. .Adams, H. and .\., op. cit., II, p. 626. 

 1862. Nematura monilifera, von Frauenfeld, op. cit., XII, p. 1159. 

 1864. Stenothyra monilifera, Cross,^ and Fischer, Journ. Conchyliol. 



_Xll,p. 3,V. 

 1867. Stenotliyra monilifera, Blanford. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 

 XXXV'I, pt. ii, p. 58, pi. -\iii, fig. 15. 



1875. Stenothyra monilifera, Morelet, Ser. Conchyliol . IV, p. 314. 



1876. Stenothyra monilifera (as Nematura in Syst. lud.), Hanlev and 



Theobald, Coiicli. Ind. p. 17, pi. xxxvii, fis'. 4. 

 1876. Stenothyra monilifera, Theobald, Cat. Land, and Freshw. Shells 



India, p. 15. 

 1S85. Stenothyra monilifera, Nevill, op. cit.. II, p. 44. 

 1915. Stenothyra mo7tilifera, Preston, op. cit., p. So. 



S. monilijera was described by Benson from specimens col- 

 lected by the late Mr. W. Theobald at Mergui, Tenasserim. The 

 same collector had also found specimens at Rangoon. Blanford 

 obtained specimens at Port Dalhousie in theBassein River, Burma. 

 Crosse and Fischer recorded its occurrence in a marshy area in 

 Cochin-China. In the Indian Museum collection the species is 

 represented by specimens from Akyab, Amherst and Penang. 



Benson's description of the species needs no amplification, 

 while in Blanford's and Hanlev and Theobald's figures the species 

 is delineated very well. 



Nevill doubtfulty considered S. punciiculata (Gould) as being 

 synonymous with this species ; we discuss this at length in our re- 

 marks on that species (p. 133). 



The species is closely allied toS. hungerfuydiana, Nevill, but is 

 distinguished by the shell being much larger, the shape of the 

 body-whorl, the irregular increase of the whorls and the sculp- 

 ture. 



