116 LAND AND FRESIIWATKR 



The credit of first finding and sending to England the species I 

 now describe is due to the late Mr. M. T. Ogle, of the Indian Survey 

 Department, who made a collection of shells when passing through 

 the Knrram Valley into Kabul with the force under Lord Roberts, 

 The shells were, however, mostly old, and a considerable number 

 were filled witli earth, having, as mentioned by Mr. Ogle, been 

 taken out of banks. I made a description of the shell at the time, 

 but never published it, as I could not place it in its generic position 

 with any degree of certainty, because, coming from this western 

 part of India, it might have been a true Helix. 



I am now indebted to Captain A. H. Montagu, of the 21st 

 Punjab Infantry, to whom I sent one of the shells, and who was 

 lately quartered in the valley, for a fine series of this species, not 

 only preserved in spirit, but some reached me alive. On putting 

 them in a saucer with a little warm water near the fire they very 

 soon revived and became very active and enjoyed their first meal of 

 lettuce after their long journey through the post. Captain Montngu 

 found them very abundant in the low hills round the rice-fields, but 

 higher up at Malana, under the Sufaid Koh range, where he was 

 stationed, they were not met with. 



Only one failed to survive the journey (it was just alive), and 

 the anatomical detail was taken from it. I find it falls into the 

 subgenus Bensonia, type monticola, Hutton, = lahiafa, Pfr., of Simla 

 and Mussoorie, a subgenus which ranges thence westward on the 

 southern slopes of the Himalayas to Jamu in Kashmir territory, as 

 recorded by Mr. Theobald, who described a variety, jamnensis, he 

 got there. 



Nevill described another variety, collected by Stoliczka near 

 Murree, as var. murriensis. This carried the range of this subgenus 

 of the Zonitidaj far along the hills north of the Punjab, and this new 

 species now extends the range many miles further west beyond the 

 Indus. Blanford has described a species from Murree as Macro- 

 cTilamys'i ivynnei. 



The animals of B. jacquemonti, var. knrramensis (Plate XCV. 

 figs, 1, 1 rt), vary a good deal in colour, from pale ash to pale ash 

 tinged with green, and one is pale lemon-yellow ; the head and 

 tentacles are dusky ash, and this varies in intensity. The neck -lobes 

 are conspicuously yellow. There is no central area on the sole of 

 the foot; the pedal line is well marked, as well as the lateral grooves 

 running from it upward and forward to the upperside of the foot, 

 which is slightly keeled. Looking down vertically on the foot from 

 above, these meet on the keel and form regular V-shaped segments 

 (fig. 1 h), the angle of the V being directed towards the shell. The 

 eye-tentacles are rather close together at the base. 



It measures when extended 10 mm. 



The mucous gland (figs. \b, \ c) is large, with a blunt slightly 

 overhanging lobe, and the extremity of the foot is rounded. 



There is no right shell-lobe ; the left is simjile, and extends along 

 the whole edge of the peristome, reflected over it. 



