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Records oj the Indian Miistiim. [Vol. XXII, 



Vivipara crassispiralis, sp. nov. 



(Plate IV, fig. I.) 



The shell is ovate-conical, rather bluntly acuminate, from i|- 

 to if times as high as broad, thin, of an almost uniform bright 

 olive-green but with faintly darkened spiral bands, with the 

 whorls tumid and obliquely, rather broadly flattened outside the 



/ c. 



Fkj. 3.— Kadular leelh of Vivipandae. 



A. — Vivipara crasbispiralis. 

 B. — V. oxytropis 



C 



-Lecyihocondia lecyfliis. 



suture, which is linearly impressed. The sculpture consists of 

 prominent spiral ridges^ of which two are visible on the penultimate 

 and antepenultimate whorls and three on the upper part of the 

 body-whorl, and of numerous fine spiral lines crossed at fairly 

 regular intervals by rather coarser oblique vertical lines. The 

 ridges are nearly solid. There are 4^ whorls in all when the shell 

 is complete. The first whorl and a half are Sfnooth except for the 

 fine lines. All increase in size gradually and evenly. The body- 

 whorl is transverse and oblique, with its anterior margin strongly 

 sinuate. It shows no tendency to be biangulate and the peripheral 

 ridge is hardly stronger than the others above it ; below it there 



