284 LAND AND FRESHWATER 



there is no doubt in my mind it is quite a distinct spocies, and it 

 is interestinfi; to know my friend Jjlanford thought so too, and 

 was struck by its greater size, yet hesitated to give it a name. 

 Elanford had noticed tlie difference in the animals of these 

 AVesteru Peninsula forms as compared with 2Iacrochlami/s of 

 Bengal; he describes it well; from conversations with him, 1 know 

 the description applied to the Bombay and typical form. This 

 was confirmed when I received specimens in spirit from that place, 

 kindly obtained for me by Mr. Phipson, by which means I was able 

 to describe the anatomy, and place it in a new subgenus, viz. Eiiry- 

 cJdamijs. vide pp. 90 & 91, PI. IX. Blanford certainly considered 

 the animal of the Broach shell to be like that of the Bombav 

 j)latifchlcnnijf;, or he would not have referred it as a variety, and he 

 may even have seen the animal of both. There is considerable 

 likeness in the shells, and I therefore place the shell in the genus 

 Eurychlamys, and name it after its collector. 



EuRTCHLAMYS BLANFORBi, n. sp. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 2.) 



Locality. The old city of Champanir, near Broach, Baroda 

 ( W. T. Blanford). 



Shell perforate, depressedly conoid, polished, less so in adult 

 shells ; flat on basal side, umbilical depressiim small and con- 

 tracted ; sculpture none, a glassy surface; colour umber-brown ; 

 spire slightly elevated, apex rounded ; suture m ell marked ; whorls 

 6, very regularly increasing : aperture narrow and broadly lunate, 

 broader than high ; peristome thin, simple ; columella not reflected, 

 very oblique. 



Size: maj. diam. 17"0, min. 15-5; alt. axis 6-5 mm. 



Aivimal not yet seen, in all probability like that of EurycMamys 

 2)latychlamys ot Bombay, of which Mr. W. T. Blanford considered 

 it a variety {vide J. A. S. B. 18S0, p. 195). The largest specimen 

 of this which I have seen measures 12 mm. in greatest diameter, 

 most are genei-ally about 10. 



Among the land shells preserved in spirit, collected by Dr. N". 

 Annandale in Southern India in November 1908, the one of great 

 interest is William & Henry Blanford's species Helix todanim, 

 first obtained by them near Pykara and Neddiwuttom in the 

 Nilghiri Hills, and described in J. A. S. B. vol, xxx. (1861) 

 p. y53, pi. i. fig. 8. In Mr. Blanford's collection (which he 

 bequeathed to the Natural History JNluseum) are the type shells 

 from the above localities ; on same glass slip are 3 smaller shells 

 from Sagur Ghat and Ooty ; these Blanford distinguished in his 

 Catalogue, noting that they were "perhaps different." I can see no 

 difference, and consider them young — 5| whorls to 6 — the small 

 specimens have rather a flatter spire. Annandide's specimens from 

 Q'ravancore, though small, agree with the figure quoted above. 

 In the Fauna of British India, Mollusca (190S) p. 130, this species 

 is placed in Macrochlaiuys, so it is considered by Blanford in the 



