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Taking the external form of the animal and the radula he placed 

 in Euplecta a number of Eastern and Himalayan and Assam species, 

 where it is correct they should remain until examination of the 

 internal anatomy, especially the generative organs, should prove 

 them something very different to that which Semper has shown 

 E. snbojpaca to be. He placed in the genus : — 



E. suhopaca, Pfr. Ceylon. 



E. layardi, Pfr. Ceylon. 



E. rotundata, Semper. Digollorin. 



E. hicarinata. Semper. Luzon. 



But he is doubtful concerning the correct generic position of the 

 last two. 



Blanford added the following species :— 



Euplecta payisa, Bs. Burmah. 



E. sikrigulUensis, Nevill. Behar. Since found to be a Macro- 



chlamys *. 

 E. climacterica, Bs. Assam Hills. 

 E. austeni, W. Blf. Garo Hills. [In my ' Field-notes ' there is 



no reference to any shell-lobes.] 

 E. falcata, W. Blf. Garo HiUs. 

 E. ornatixsima, Bs, Sikkim. 

 E. serrula, Bs. Teria Ghats. 

 E. anceps, Gould. Tenasserim. [Is a Macrochlamys, as noted by 



Blanford and since observed by myself.] 

 E. arata, W. Blf. North Burmah. 



Geoffr. Nevill, in his amended Hand-list, placed these species and 

 a great many more in this genus, and further divided it into two 

 divisions based on shell-character, retaining the more globose, 

 convex-sided shells in Euplecta, and created a new subgenus for the 

 sharply keeled species. 



Having received some Ceylon shells from Mr. E. R. Sykes, my 

 first examination of the animal was made from a very indifferent 

 dried-up specimen which I described in 1897, a species which I 

 believed to be new, and which I named Euflecta pr-estord after its 

 discoverer ; the animal was, however, not in a state from which 

 any very satisfactory knowledge of the anatomy could be expected. 

 Although many residents in Ceylon have collected the land-shells of 

 the island, no one has done better service towards our malacological 

 knowledge of the fauna than Mr. 0. Collett ; both he and Mr. Preston 

 have given a stimulus to Indian conchology that was sadly wanting. 

 The fine series of species I have since had the good fortune to 

 examine in detail will ever be associated with Mr. Collett's careful 

 collection and preservation. 



Among these was the very beautifully formed shell E.prceeminens, 

 Sykes, also a fine example of E. partita, Bs. =suho])aca, Pfr., the 



* Animal figured in Land & Freshw. Moll. India, Part III. PI. XIX. figs. 3, 

 3 a, from Stoliczka's set of drawings. 



