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deferens joins. The spermatheca is short, largely bulbous on a 

 short thick stalk. 



This undoubted species of SaJdeUa differs from S. Jwnesta in 

 several points, the much larger shell and its different texture, 

 and strong coloration of the animal. It enables me to add the 

 following to the description of the genus : — JVo amatoriul orgnn 

 and no kale-sac to the penis, and the spermatheca short tvith a 

 bulbous sac; these characters being quite unlike the same paits in 

 MacrochJamys, but may be compared to the anatomy of some 

 species of Durgella, and to Satiella deJchanensis. 



Sakiella ? FiDus, n. sp. (Plate CXXI. fig. 8.) 



Locality. Thvetmyo,'Pegxx(Theobald ,^'Blanford; ex coll. Calcutta 

 Museum, No. M 3676 b). 



Shell narrowly perforate, much hidden by reflected columella, 

 globosely conoid ; sculpture, very fine close microscopical striation 

 on the last whorl, strongly striate within the perforation ; colour 

 very pale, with a bluish tinge ; spire conic, sides nearly fiat, apex 

 subacute ; suture moderately impressed ; whorls 5, increasn:g 

 regularl}', last whorl rounded ; aperture lunate, oblique ; peristome 

 rather thickened ; columellar margin oblique. 



Size : maj. diam. 10-5 ; alt. axis 4-5 mm. 



Two specimens were found among ten shells, catalogued in 

 JVevill's Hand-list, p. 24, no. 43, Kanina (Ilacrochlamys) honesia, 

 Gould, from above locality. Seven of these proved to be 31. chaos, 

 A¥. T. Blf., one is probably a new species. Although with some 

 characters like honesta, the flatness of the sides of the spire and 

 the sculpture mark it as quite distinct. 



The occurrence of the genus Saliella at Tliyetmyo or any part of 

 Upper Burma has to be verified by specimens preserved in spirit. 



In Vol I. (1883) p. 70, Plate XV. fig. 6, 1 described and figured 

 under Kaliella ? nevilli a shell from Sikkim, saying " its generic 

 position was very doubtful," the form being pyramidal and keeled, 

 and there being no other genus for its reception, Kaliella with a 

 doubt was selected. Eecently, in the ' Eauna of British India ' 

 (Mollusca), vol. i. (1908) p. 274, Blanford gave it the same 

 generic position, remarking " the relations of this shell are very 

 doubtful. It cannot be a Kaliella to judge by the shell." I have 

 lately found another species possessing very similar shell-characters 

 from the Patkai Kange, Assam, and although the animal remains 

 unknown, and even its true family position, it is time a genus 

 should be formed to separate it from Kaliella. 



Genus Psepdokaliella, gen. nov. 



Shell umbilicated to openly umbilicated, subturbinate ; whorls 

 rather rapidly increasing, thin, subcostulate; periphery ornamented 

 with hairs, either pointed or blunt ; spire subconoid. 



Type, 1\ nevilli, Q.-A., Sikhim. 



